Pizzo between history and legends

Pizzo - Pizzo is located in Calabria in the province of Vibo Valentia, has 9059 inhabitants and is famous for its Pizzo truffle. Although there is no historical source, Pozzo is said to have been founded by Nepeto at the time of ancient Greece. There are certain sources instead of 1300 where there was a fort and a village and a community of Basilian monks.

There are also certainties about their fishing activity, especially the tuna of which the beaches of the port of Sant'Eufemia are rich. Pizzo, which means bird's beak, protruding tip, takes its name from the tufaceous promontory that juts out into the sea, rising from the mouth of the Angitola river to the Marina beach where we find the Murat castle. In the Piedigrotta / Prangi area, the caves of Bue (it is thought that the monk seal, called sea ox), and of Saraceno / Centofontane still existed in the nineteenth century. The huge cave of the Saracen, which unfortunately today is unsafe, was used in the past by Saracen and Barbary pirates as a deposit for prey and for the people that I capture during raids in inland towns.