From the mid-1960s onwards, Copanello was home to celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Renato Rascel, Totò, Bobby Solo, Rita Pavone, Gloria Gaynor, Gino Paoli, Raf Vallone and Peppino di Capri.

[7][8][9] The River Alessi (known as Amnis Pellena in the 17th century[7]) rises in the center of the isthmus of Catanzaro, in the municipality of Girifalco, at the foot of Mount Covello, part of the Serre Calabresi.

In July 2012, the Copanello Lido pine forest, which roughly corresponds to the lower western part of the Coscia de Stalettì, caught fire.

[7] In fact, the Chapel of San Martino is located in the Lopilato locality, in the eastern part of Copanello Alto, almost at the foot of the Coscia di Stalettì.

The first is an exit from European route E90 which, at the frazione, passes under an old railroad line and leads to piazza Antonio Susanna in the southern part of Copanello.

There, he is said to have met Nausicaa, who led him to his father, King Alcinous, who would have resided, in this case, in the center of the isthmus of Catanzaro, perhaps in Tiriolo or closer to the Copanello coast.

[23] Copanello Alto may have been inhabited in prehistoric times, as testified by a statuette found in the early 20th century by farmers belonging to Baroness Elvira Marincola Cattaneo.

[25] At the end of the 7th century, the caves at the foot of the promontory on which Copanello Alto stands were occupied by Basilian monks and hermits from the Middle East who had fled to southern Italy following the iconoclastic edicts of the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian.

[26] On his death around 580, Cassiodorus bequeathed his possessions, including the Vivarium monastery and thus the territory of Copanello, to the monks of the Monastère Castellense, located in Santa Maria del Mare (frazione de Stalettì).

The monastery remained in their possession until the 11th century, although the bishop of Squillace attempted to seize it on several occasions, at which time it came under the control of the Benedictine Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity of Mileto, as a gift from Count Roger I of Sicily.

[30] In the 16th century, the area where Copanello Lido now stands was part of Cassiodorus' landholding, and was used for pasture and olive groves irrigated by the Alessi river.

Built on the site of the ancient Roman road (also used in the Middle Ages) that ran along the Ionian coast near Catanzaro, it was called Viarande until 1943, when it became Via Rande and then Via Grande.

[41][42] In the 1880s, more celebrities such as French novelist Anne Levinck visited Copanello, then La Coscia, following in the footsteps of Cassiodorus and general Guglielmo Pepe.

[43] In the 1860s, colonel and deputy Achille Fazzari, a native of Stalettì, purchased the remains of the Vivarium monastery in Copanello Alto from Baroness Enrichetta Scoppa and transformed it.

[54] The Lucifero family continued to own a large part of Coscia di Stalettì,[55] as well as the area currently occupied by Copanello Lido, which was still uninhabited at the time.

In 1954, Domenico Muscolo, a nephew of the writer Filippo De Nobili (who himself often vacationed at Copanello Lido with his friend Filippo Marincola of the Duke of Petrizzi family[56]), bought a plot of land from Francesco Lucifero and built Copanello Lido's first house, Casa Muscolo, also known as Casa del Pesce, while Susanna bought several plots of land around it.

The coffee produced at Copanello Lido by this brand is now sold in 9 countries (Italy, the US, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Switzerland and Latvia), and is now managed by the son-in-law and nephews of company founder Guglielmo Papaleo: Roberto Volpi, Daniele Rossi and Matteo Tubertini.

[61] At the end of the 1970s, Copanello Lido was home to such celebrities as Gloria Gaynor, Franco Califano, Gino Paoli, Rocky Roberts, Rita Pavone and Frank Sinatra, as well as actor Raf Vallone (1916–2002).

This action was welcomed by the WWF and Calabrian environmentalists, who also called for the destruction of several other ecomostri (ecological monsters) located in the provinces of Crotone, Cosenza and Vibo Valentia.

[53] Adjacent to the former Libero Gatti Naturalist Museum, Le Terrazze restaurant overlooks Piazza Giovanni Falcone, and today belongs to the Marincola family.

[75] Via Lido is also home to a Carabinieri logistical and operational base, as well as an Italian National Police bathing center, each with its own private beach.

The coffee produced in Copanello Lido by this brand is now sold in 9 countries (Italy, the United States, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Switzerland and Latvia), and is now managed by the son-in-law and nephews of company founder Guglielmo Papaleo: Roberto Volpi, Daniele Rossi and Matteo Tubertini.

[62] Close to the Guglielmo Caffè roasting plant and the Casino Pepe is an old, abandoned cement works, consisting of two towers, which once belonged to the Calcementi Calabri company.

[32] Meat dishes also feature prominently, with eggs with frisulimiti (frisulimitisare Calabrian pig pies) and ′nduja vajanata (a type of piquant sausage made only in the Stalettì area).

The feast consists of a procession in which the statue of San Gregorio is carried from the Convent of Stalettì to Copanello Lido, before being taken by sea to the nearby frazione of Caminia.

It featured boxers from Calabria (Catanzaro, Lamezia Terme, Cropani, Chiaravalle Centrale, Montepaone and San Vito sullo Ionio), Apulia and Sardinia.

[83][89] The Alessi river mouth ecosystem includes numerous species of amphibians (frogs and toads), rodents (mainly myomorphs: mice and rats) and insects (dragonflies, flies, mosquitoes, bees and wasps).

[94] At the end of the World War II, surveyor Giovanni Gatti took part, on behalf of the Guglielmo Caffè company and the Provincial Tourism Organization, in the construction on the reef of the Rotonda at Copanello Lido and a ski jump, now destroyed.

He surmised that this might be the Chapel of San Martino, the only surviving vestige of early Christian art in Calabria, which adjoined the Vivarium monastery built by Cassiodorus between 535 and 555.

Its existence has come down to us thanks to a letter sent by Cassiodorus, on behalf of King Athalaric, to Severus, corrector of Lucania and Bruttium, in which he complains about peasants having stolen horses from an important traveler named Nymphadius.