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En Calabre était né Mattia Preti, un grand peintre du XVIIe italien : sa patrie, Taverna, splendidement située dans les premières forêts de la Sila, en conserve des toiles fantastiques qui sont éparpillées entre l'église San Domenico, le Musée Civique et l'église Santa Barbara.
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Calabria was the birthplace of Mattia Preti, the great seventeenth-century Italian painter: some of his wonderful paintings can still be seen in his hometown, Taverna, splendidly situated amid the woods at the foot of the Sila mountains, in the church of Saint Dominic, in the Town Museum and in the church di Santa Barbara. In Calabria, not only art, but culture of every kind has very ancient roots. Pythagoras, the philosopher and mathematician, had his school in Crotone, a powerful and flourishing town of Magna Graecia, near Capo Colonna where the lonely ruins of the Doric temple of Hera (Juno) Lacinia stand. The area is famous for its lovely red beaches, such as the one on Capo Rizzuto island; here, in the Le Castella district, the Aragonese castle standing on a small island can be seen in all its splendour: with its impressive bulk, it seems to be defending the whole town, like a fearless sovereign. More history can be felt in Locri, an ancient Greek colony, in Gerace with its fascinating Cathedral and in Byzantine Stilo.
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