Santa Severina from Area Ionio (CZ)

The Borgo of Santa Severina stands on a tuff spur overlooking the Neto river valley.

As evidence of the Byzantine domination, the Grecìa neighborhood remains, in the eastern area, practically intact from an urban planning point of view, where the houses are all perched on the rocky spur (those of the wealthier families on the top of the hill, the others dug into the rock) from which the panorama of the Marquisate unfolds. And adjacent to Grecìa there is the Iudea district, inhabited by Jews until their expulsion in 1510.

The Castle, majestic and imposing, was built in 1076 by the Normans on the remains of a previous Byzantine fortification. Separated from the Castle by a deep moat, two rocky outcrops form a belvedere overlooking an evocative scenery that ranges from the Sila mountains to the Ionian sea.