Geraci Siculo - Piccola Grande Italia

[@auguritutto]

I have visited many times in the summer. I have really nice memories.

[@nunzioturdophotography8230]

Amo la Sicilia ancora incontaminata dove ancora si possono assaporare la Cultura e le Tradizioni di questa magnifica terra,Geraci Siculo è tutto questo!

[@ardozier]

my dear grandfather Mauro Alessi came from this charming town.

[@antoninoragazzo9055]

Non interessa a nessuno 😢

[@LondonPower]

The name of the city derives from the Greek hierax(ἱέραξ) ("sparrowhawk"). According to a legend, the inhabitants of the coast, fleeing from a Saracen attack in 915 CE, were led by a sparrowhawk to the mountains commanding the area of Locri, and here they founded the city. Archeological findings showed that the area was in fact inhabited since the Neolithic Age; also traces of Sicel presence have been found. Later, even during the highest splendour of Locri, the hill was inhabited and was later the site of a Roman military garrison. After the Byzantinereconquest of Italy in the 6th century, the town became an administrative, military and religious capital under the name of Santa Ciriaca. In 986 the Saracens briefly conquered the city, but it returned to Byzantine control until the Normanconquest in 1059. Gerace was seat of a principality under the Normans, whose symbol was the Castle of the Hautville or Altavilla. It subsequently followed the history of the Kingdom of Naples. During the Sicilian Vespers (late 13th century), Gerace was occupied by the Aragonese Admiral Roger of Lauria who turned it into his own feudal estate; later it became a "Royal City". In 1348 it became a county, a possession of the Caracciolos, Gonzalo de Córdoba and, as a principality, of the Grimaldi (end of the 16th century). With the abolition of feudalism in 1806, Gerace became district capital. A new modern town, Gerace Marina, was built on the coast in the 19th century to house new public buildings. The name was changed to Locri in 1934.

[@acqnei22]

This is Geraci in Sicily not Gerace in Calabria.

[@lindaschweigert8233]

my grandmother was born and raised here