The Small suburb of Amantea rises arrocato on the sea in a strategic position from the military point of view.Certain news don't be had on the origin of this city, whose roots sink straight perhaps in an epoch precedent to the Greek presence in calabria.

Us of some that from the IV to the XI century d.C.they have succeeded to Amantea the Byzantines, the Arabs and the Norman ones, leaving traces of their presence.
The historical center at the base of the hill decorates him of valuable buildings of cult.
The principal and the church of St. Bernardino from Siena, with the attached convent founded in 1436 by the smaller regular church goer.

From visit:
The rests of the castle that it dominates the suburb from the tall one built beginning from the century XII.

The ruins of the Franciscan convent built in 1216 on the site of a Brazilian cenobio.
 

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