Is reductive if whoever is in Tropea is only sea life. Must howevere, know it and live it to truly appreciate its tradition. Know the history of Tropea, is to enter the human jouney and the culture of Calabria which is more ancient than is commonly believed if you are referring to the archaeological discoveries of the coves of Scalea or Papasidero reporting of graffiti, in fact , human settlements since the Palaeolithic.
Before the Greek colonization ( between VIII and VII sec. B. C.) , the ancient inhabitants were the Enotri, the Morgeti and the Itali.
Hellenic colonization draw a new reality, destined to shape the social, economic and cultural territory: is the time of Pythagoras, Milone, Zaleuco. In a second phase will be the Romans to occupy Calabria.
It is, unfortunately, in this period (II BC) that our mountains are being depleted with severe mutilation and environmental disasters.
With Roman landowners will develop large malarious areas and entire regions are abandoned for centuries.
With the crumbling Roman Empire, the region will be the victim of constant invasions. Byzantines and Lombards will contend Calabria.
Tropea, was under Byzantine sovereignty for more than half a millennium (from the first half of the sixth century until after the middle of XI century), whose civilization, which continues to the Greek one, was greatly affected.
In Calabria, after the Norman domination, there will be one of the Angevin, Aragonese and Spanish, whose policy, purely feudal, will make life difficult for the population, with tase and duties unbearable.
Tropea, however, was the city state property and therefore not subject to any gentleman. This was a privilege and that it was clearly shown, for example, the census of the territory of the Kingdom of Naples in 1743, only 50 cities in 2765 were state-owned and of these, precisely, Tropea. After the abolition of feudalism, Italy was leveled according to new
