Friendship with the formidable archaeologist Messina Alessio Toscano Raffa allows us to raise a new tone and a new item in this blog, dedicated to Messina and Cape Pelorus, archeology, history, nature and the laws of this territory.
Alessio Toscano Raffa, editor and expert aurantia "technical" Messina of antiquities, works with the Free Press "Office Shows," for which manages the heading "Milestones."
Arab presence was interrupted by the conquest of Robert Guiscard, in 1061, which changed the name of the center in S. Mark, in memory of the saint and evangelist of the first city conquered by the Normans in Calabria. The cultural stratification present in the territory aluntino has found an accomplished display in the Museum of Culture Visual arts and Byzantine and Norman which preserves the most significant finds (ceramic, epigraphic, architectural and decorative) on the history of this small town Nebrodi. The museum is housed in a monastery of the XVI century. AD built on the foundations of the oldest Byzantine church of S. Theodore dating VIII AD One more reason to visit this center with its characteristic medieval structure from which to enjoy stunning panoramic views that stretch from Cape Milazzo until the province of Palermo.
Alessio Toscano Raffa
Alessio Toscano Raffa, editor and expert aurantia "technical" Messina of antiquities, works with the Free Press "Office Shows," for which manages the heading "Milestones."
Courtesy of his Office Shows and these contributions also quoted in full on "Pheraimon.
Nebrodi Immersed in the park, 540 meters above sea level, San Marco d'Alunzio, traces thousands of years of occupation since prehistoric times.
News on the foundation of the center are handed down by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (BC) that lay the foundation stone of St. Mark Patron of Alunzio was Lacarnone from Thur, here ends his journey in the company of Aeneas after destruction of Troy. The native center, originally called Halut (in Phoenician language "high"), underwent a process of Hellenization between the fifth and fourth centuries. BC changing its name to Alontion. The element is certainly more attractive, however, the so-called Temple of Hercules, the Hellenistic period, at the foot of the village. It is a rectangular structure on the podium, one of the few preserved places of worship in the province of Messina, of which there are few components are original because they converted into a church in Byzantine times.
In Roman times the city was civitas decuman and therefore subject to the payment of a tenth, to become, in the Augustan age, Municipium Aluntinorum.
In Byzantine times the center was renamed Demenna and there are many visible examples of this artistic period. The next In Roman times the city was civitas decuman and therefore subject to the payment of a tenth, to become, in the Augustan age, Municipium Aluntinorum.
Arab presence was interrupted by the conquest of Robert Guiscard, in 1061, which changed the name of the center in S. Mark, in memory of the saint and evangelist of the first city conquered by the Normans in Calabria. The cultural stratification present in the territory aluntino has found an accomplished display in the Museum of Culture Visual arts and Byzantine and Norman which preserves the most significant finds (ceramic, epigraphic, architectural and decorative) on the history of this small town Nebrodi. The museum is housed in a monastery of the XVI century. AD built on the foundations of the oldest Byzantine church of S. Theodore dating VIII AD One more reason to visit this center with its characteristic medieval structure from which to enjoy stunning panoramic views that stretch from Cape Milazzo until the province of Palermo.
Alessio Toscano Raffa
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