 Papasidero | ||
| Papasidero | ||
| region | Calabria | |
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| Residents | 696 (2018) | |
| height | 210 m | |
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Papasídero is a small place in Calabria.
background
The place on the banks of the Lao River (the one to the east in the Basilicata as Mercure rises) has almost 750 inhabitants and owes its name to the Greek monk Father Isidor (Παπάς Ισίδωρος), who is said to have founded the place. In the Middle Ages the place was a fief of the Alitto, Sanseverino and Spinelli families ScaleaIn 1806 the feudal system was abolished. The place became known on the one hand through the discovery of the Stone Age finds in the Grotta del Romito and through the rafting offers on the river Lao.
getting there
By train / bus
The nearest railway station is that of 1 Scalea, from here you can get to Papasidero by taxi or bus.
In the street
Papasídero is on the curvy SP3, what a Scalea from the coastal road 
SS18 turns inland. From the interior, resp. of the 
Highway 2Naples - Cosenza take the 
Mormanno and then also arrives at the 
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mobility
The place can be explored on foot, the alleys in the center of the village are winding. On a path that starts behind the parish church, you can go up through a passage under the campanile to Piazza Castello.
Tourist Attractions
- the parish church 1 Chiesa di San Constantino from the 15th century (extended in the 18th century, font from the 14th century), lies under the ruins of the 2 Castello Svevo, the Stauffer fortress from the 11th / 13th centuries Century with a rectangular floor plan and a semicircular tower.
- the 3 Cappella S. Sofia from the 12th century, inside a frasko from 1504.
- the 4 Santuario della Madonna di Costantinopoli, a pilgrimage church nestling against the rocks of the Lao Gorge, dates back to the Middle Ages and was expanded after the plague epidemic in 1656. A bridge from 1904 replaced a medieval bridge and improves access from the site. Inside a fresco of the Madonna odigitria and a statue of the Madonna from the 17th century.
- the ruin of the 5 Chiesa di Sant'Elia (or the Ecclesia sancti Eliae mentioned in a document in 1065) are located at the entrance to the grotto.
Grotta del Romito
- 6 Grotta del Romito. Tel.: 39 0981 83070. Open: winter 10 a.m.-4 p.m., spring 10 a.m.-6 p.m., summer 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
North of Papasídero, a side road branches off from the SP3 towards Mormanno Grotta del Romito from. A small museum provides information about the archaeological sites here are the replicas of the burial finds from the Stone Age on display. In the area between the museum and the cave there are reconstructions of dwellings as they were used in the Stone Age, the cave itself is visited in groups led by volunteers in order to prevent damage.
In 1961 Agostino Miglio discovered signs of prehistoric settlement in this cave. Between 1961/68 were here by Paolo Graziosi from the university Florence first excavations carried out. In a second excavation campaign in 1999/2002, more graves were discovered.
The cave has been around since the end of the Paleolithic around 18,000 BC. animated up to the year 1000. It is of great importance due to the traces of settlement from the Paleolithic, when people of the Cro Magnon culture (Homo sapiens) lived here. The oldest finds are flint scrapers.
The cave consists of a living space under a rock overhang and the actual 20 m deep cave, in which even stalactite formations can be seen.
Particularly impressive is the relatively well-preserved rock drawing of an aurochs (Bos primigenius), two further depictions of aurochs are incomplete and can only be guessed at. The pictorial representations are likely to be 10,000 - 15,000 years old.
The cave was probably used as a burial place and place of worship. Various skeletons were buried here, a couple between 15 and 20 years old (original in the National Museum in Reggio di Calabria and a somewhat larger pair of about 30 years (original in the Museo Fiorentino di Preistoria). Two more individual graves were found later, buried 12,000 - 13,000 years ago, 18 resp. The 20-year-old dead had received, among other things, flint blades as grave goods.
Apparently, the Lao Valley was important as a trading route for obsidian in the Stone Age. Remains of pottery and obsidian from the island were found from the Neolithic period Lipari was transported through the region to the north.
Later, in Byzantine times, the cave was used as accommodation by Greek monks from the Sant'Elia monastery.
activities
- on a former Mule trackwho after Orsomarso led can from the bridge of the 7 Bridge SP3 along the Lao River to be hiked.
- Will be on the Lao too Rafting tours offered.
shop
kitchen
- 1 Bar Ristorante Grotta del Romito, Restaurant near the entrance to the archaeological site.
