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Scilla is blessed with the most picturesque of natural settings, between the forested Aspromonte Mountains and the Strait of Messina in Calabria, Southern Italy. The enviable location, characterized by a dramatic promontory reaching into the waters of the strait, stimulates imagination. Ancient peoples invented fanciful stories to explain the dangers of the passageway’s natural phenomena with legends dating back to …
“I have never beheld the enchantment of the Straits of Messina, that Fata Morgana, when, under certain conditions of weather, phantasmagoric palaces of wondrous shape are cast upon the waters – not mirrored, but standing upright; tangible, as it were; yet diaphanous as a veil of gauze.” Thus spake Norman Douglas in his Old Calabria. The extraordinary vision, looking across …
“Non mollare.” — Don’t give up. As we ring in the New Year with resolutions full of challenge and optimism, the advice of an octogenarian who has swum the Strait of Messina 23 times is as good as it gets. Add to that, he was 49 years old when he attempted it for the first time. Reggio Calabria native Elio …