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Sibari (the ancient Sybaris) is an archaeological site near modern holiday resorts on the Ionian Sea in Calabria. Politically, the settlement belongs to the municipality Cassano allo Ionio.
background
It was not until the 1960s that traces of the ancient city of Sybaris on the west bank of the Gulf of Tarent discovered on the coast between the rivers Sybaris (Coscile) and Crathis (Crati). In addition to the excavation site, a small archaeological museum with the finds from ancient Sybaris is worth a visit.
There is no central place called Sibari, Sibari consists of a central one 1 Settlement at the train station on the main street SS106 with shops and service providers, the system of artificial layers, marinas and hotel complexes from 2 Sibari Laghi and the holiday complex 3 Sibari Marina. The whole place belongs to the municipality located in the hinterland 4 Cassano allo Ionio.
Around 720 BC. has been Sybaris founded as a colony by Achaeans on the west bank of the Gulf of Taranto between the mouths of the two rivers Sybaris and Crathis. Thanks to the fertile alluvial land in the area and its position on the trade routes, the city soon achieved great wealth and economic power, so that daughter colonies could be established from Sybaris, among others. Poseidonia (Paestum).
According to the geographer Athenaios, there was an agora and an important Hera temple in Sybaris. The population was known for their wealth, the luxurious lifestyle turned into decadence, the Sybaritism became the epitome of indulgence and gluttony.
Around 510 BC. An uprising led by Telys broke out in Sybaris: the wealth of a large number of the wealthiest citizens was confiscated, and they fled to the further south Croton. When the citizens of Kroton failed to comply with an ultimatum to surrender the fugitives, Sybaris launched a war against his neighboring city and was ultimately defeated. In revenge, the city of Sybaris was completely destroyed when the victorious Crotonians diverted the Crathis River and left the defeated city buried under the floods.
The ancient Sybaris was never rebuilt, the ruins were not rediscovered until 1932 and, after identification as those of the submerged city, subjected to intensive excavation work from 1969 onwards.
Only in modern times were with Marina di Sibari a holiday complex with a golf resort and in the seventies with Laghi di Sibari An artificial complex of harbor basins with lagoons, marina and hotels was created (initially an oil loading terminal should have been built here) and the region was used for tourism, the places are part of the political community Cassano allo Ionio.
getting there
By plane
The nearest international airport is the Lamezia Terme Airport
(IATA: SUF).
By train / by bus
The 1 Sibari F.S. station is at the position where the Calabrian railway lines are Tarent - Sibari - Cosenza and the shoreline across Crotone to Catanzaro-Cross Lido.
Sibari is served by long-distance bus companies from Rome and Naples, at least during the season.
In the street
After the end of the toll motorway 
at Fisciano take the 
through Campania, which after an ascent through the mountainous region of the Basilicata with the Parco Nazionale del Pollino (in the winter months winter equipment compulsory) winds down into the plain between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas, which is well-developed 
leads through the alluvial plain and reaches at Sibari the 
that are near the coast of Tarent along the entire coast of the Ionian Sea via Sibari Crotone and on past Catanzaro pulls down the whole "toe of the boot".
By boat
Sibari Laghi with the whole system of artificial lagoons, hotels and has a large marina, but ferry traffic with passenger transport is not offered.
mobility
Locally one moves on foot resp. Due to the large distances between the train station and the settlements near the coast with your own vehicle or taxi.
Tourist Attractions
- 1 ("Scavi di Sibari"): a little north of the creek bed of the Crati river, ruins of the ancient Sybaris were brought to light in the 1960s.
- The history of the colony founded by the Achaeans begins around 720 BC. and takes with the destruction in the context of the armed conflict with the southern Croton around 510 BC her graduation. As Thurioi (Thurium or Thurii) was here in a much smaller urban area in 444 BC. again founded a Greek - Hellenistic settlement, which later became a colony Copia passed into Roman hands in a further reduced extent, 90/84 BC. the place Copia became a Roman Municipium. After the imperial era, with increasing swamping of the area along the Crati, the population began to decline, so that the area began in the 7th century. remained virtually uninhabited.
- Most of the ruins today date from the era of the Roman settlement Copia, which differs from the area of the Parco cavallo (at today's park entrance) along the 2 Road to the west (on the west side of the SS106) to 3 Casa Bianca extended.
- The road in north-south direction (Plateia A) can still be seen from 4 North gate off, scant remnants of a 5 Thermal baths, a 6 Semicircular theater and east of the street the extension of the east-west street (Plateia B) to 7 Porta Marina, the gate leading to the sea.
- A number of small finds, coins and bronze figures from a Roman house temple, a lararium, which are exhibited in the museum, are important.
- At 8 Stombi Further foundations of the Greek city were excavated, which had expanded to the north with a circumference of 50 stages to the banks of the Sybaris (Coscile) river.
- In 2013, the entire archaeological site was flooded by the high-lying river Crati and covered with mud, after which a great deal of effort was made to clear the area from the mud and a new visitor center was built so that the archaeological site is normally accessible again.
- (Incidentally, the beautiful Greek temples, which are shown by Google 5/2016 on the entry for the archaeological site, do not correspond to the aspect of the site, a picture of the temples of Paestum, a founding of Sybaris, was probably inadvertently shown - just to disappoint to prevent).
- 9 Archaeological Museum ("Museo Nazionale Archeologica della Sybaritide"): Exhibition on the history of Sybaris, the Hellenistic Thurium and the Roman Copia with the local finds.
activities
- sightseeing the archaeological museum and the archaeological site.
- Swimming: of course mainly on the sandy coasts of the Ionian Sea, in the area of the resort Sabari Marina there are also man-made ponds.
- Golf in the 10 Sibari Golf Club
shop
There are various shops for groceries and everyday items in Sibari.
kitchen
nightlife
accommodation
- 1 Camping Village Onda Azzurra, C.da Foggia, 87064 Corigliano Calabro CS. Tel.: 39 0983 851157. Inexpensive year-round campsite by the sea, own shop and restaurant, popular with German-speaking winterers and long-term campers thanks to the operator's knowledge of German.
health
Practical advice
trips
- along the coast of the Ionian Sea up Tarent
- in the Pollino National Park for hiking, the Monte Pollino rises to 2248 m above sea level
- in the Sila National Park with its lakes located on plateaus and the towns on the slopes, for example Corigliano Calabro.
