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Cirella has known the presence of prehistoric tribe, as you/he/she is broadly testified by the finds fossils and lithic recovered during the jobs of excavation of the caves of the "Rock-cliff of St. Giovanni", near the railway station. In fact, in 1931 some workers of the railroads casually came upon him in a whole hollow natural presents in the territory; subsequently the dott. Domenico Topa, of the Superintendence to the antiquities, it brought fossils of mammals of average and great stature and some weapons to the light you stay typical of the man of the age of the stone; a selection of such material, attributable to the Paleolitico I mediate (and that is to around 100.000 years ago), you/he/she is still exposed in the civic museum of Cosenza (3). |
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The coastal Cirella survived to the Carthaginian fury and rather had to flourish in imperial epoch, if we find her/it quoted in the itinerary tirrenico described by Peutingeriana (11) it Tabs her/it. According to a tradition (deprived therefore of every historical base) Cirella would have been cristianizzata from St. Pietro, coming from Reggio Calabria and direct to Rome, which would have visited her note "to convert her/it to the faith of the man-god" (12). And' certain, instead, that Cirella was Episcopalian center; this way he/she writes, in fact, Ferdinando Ughelli: "Cirella had the honors of Episcopalian city, so that Romano his/her Presule, found again him with the Fathers of the Council Lateranense, celebrated in Rome by Pope Martin I the year 649, soscrisse: ROMANUS EPISCOPUS CIRELLITANUS" (13). |
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CHURCH S. MARIA DI THE FLOWERS |
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The unifying center of the new coastal community is the Church of Saint Maria of the Flowers. "Despite negative historical vicissitudes, past and present adversity, the church of the Madonna of the Flowers has been the symbol of the unity of the Cirellesis, the vital ferment that has determined the survival of it" (26). |
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CIRELLA TIRRENICA E CIRELLA JONICA |
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You found for love, mythical the one, historical the other
Cyrene, daughter of lpseo, king of the Lapitis, nephew of Peneo and the naiade Creusa, loved to chase on the Pelio mountain, in Tessaglia, and to protect the fatherly herds. One day was observed by Apollo while he/she was killing a lion, for which the god fell in love and with the help of the centaur Chirone made her/it abduct. Subsequently queen of an island of the coasts became libiche, from which you/he/she passed on the continent to govern a city that from her taken the name of Cirene. From the union Apollo-Cyrene was born Aristeo, that you/he/she was raised from Gold and from his/her/their Mother Earth. |
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1) L.M. LOMBARDI SATRIANI. M. MELIGRANA, The bridge of St. Giacomo, Rizzoli, Milan, 1982, pag. 352. 2) the You Tower, in his/her Bland work, Lavinium, Cerillae, Clampetia, Tempsa, considers the building a Roman (or a mausoleum) gravestone of the II-III century d.C. The Kahrstedt, instead, in one work of his it edits in 1960, it identifies him/it with a building templare within a villa. Also the Country holds, with decision, that deals with a Roman temple of the II-III century d.C. 3) Cfr. G.F. The Tower, Bland, Lavinium, Cerillae, Clampetia, Tempsa, Leo S. Olschki Editore, Florence, 1999, pag. 214, note 1344. |
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