Time ago, during the harvest festival, the merchants came to towns bringing the most expensive goods, most notably gorgeous ambers. They said that the gods had given ambers to the men of the cold northern lands and that the ambers had arrived to them only after a long journey. READ MORE
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Once upon a time, not so far from the town, just under the hill, up north, near a stream that flows down from the mountains...
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Cassandra was the most beautiful daughter of the king Priam of Troy and she received the gift of prophecy from Apollo. However, she was punished by the gods because she refused to love Apollo. As a result, none would believe her words. READ MORE
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The beautiful Latona belonged to the divine ancestry of the Titans, she crossed all lands and seas before finding a rock to house her. Nobody hosted her because the wrath of the queen of the gods forbade it. READ MORE
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Along the road built by Romans to travel to Sicily, near the large houses of the rich owners of these lands, there was a funerary monument. Lucio Manneo had it built, while he was still alive, because he wanted to tell an important message to the people who would read the inscription. READ MORE
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The elders told us there was a city here, even before the Romans had arrived.
None remembers the name of this city, but someone says that people used to call it in the same way they do today, yet using another language.
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The divine Dioniso, the son of Zeus and Semele, who once discovered how to turn grapes into wine, was one day kidnapped by pirates. He was seen on the beach dressed up really nice and the pirates, thinking he was a prince, kidnapped him for ransom and tied him to a tree on their ship. READ MORE
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In the highest point of the hill, so-called “arce”, there was a sacred enclosure with a high podium, located in the white rock of the hill. There, one could find a priest called “augure” because he knew to interpret the will of the gods by observing the signs and the flight of the birds.
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