Krimisa

Krimisa, Crimisa or Crimissa was an ancient town, probably originating in the 7th century BC, situated in modern Calabria in the region of Punta Alice.

[1] Even though the identification remains uncertain, scholars are inclined to believe that the city stood in Punta Alice, near the present Cirò Marina.

According to various mythographical accounts, not always uniform and coherent, of Strabo, Pseudo-Apollodorus, Lycophron and Pseudo-Aristotle, the Greek hero Philoctetes reached these places on his way back from the Trojan War, together with the Rhodians under Tlepolemus.

The construction technique was common to many archaic buildings: on a light foundation a plinth was made up of two rows of freshly rough-hewn limestone blocks, bound by clay and limestone flakes; the walls must have been made of mud bricks and wood, shown by the modest dimensions of the foundations and the absence of stone fragments.

The fourth phase from the end of the Second Punic War (202 BC) until the fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD) had a reduced attendance of visitors.

The famous Italian archaeologist Paolo Orsi worked in the area where the ancient Krimisa is presumed to have been located, and made several discoveries during excavations carried out between 1924 and 1929.