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And the beautiful villages of the Calabria region, where they lead their heads, villagers … Travel to the warmest climate of Tarantella dance, black pasta, stroncatura, dry tomatoes, Indian figs, perhaps the most resemblance to Italy!

“Prepare to be so different from Italy that you see the center and the north until today!” “Once the barren, thirsty, yellowish fields will come out, the big cactuses on the right, the big cactus on the left, the only Indian fig that grows in that region, everywhere, the air will be hot, even hotter than winter! I will not say people; Go and see for yourself! ” We were going to the homeland of the men, whose name we have been saying for years, in the “mouths of Tarantella with a knife” men, to the nose of Italy, to the Calabria region.

This journey, which is wrapped around the Mediterranean by Sicily, as well as the head and inhabitants of the country, will show us the other face of Italy as well as our Italian family whom I meet for the first time, but meet me for many years. Every corner of Turkey, Anatolia anything I’ve seen before, I try to see this “hot” when leaving the soil wrapped individually in my ear that I would whisper the following family members: “It is not like Paris Reggio Calabria; this is like the land you came from, come over again, okay? “

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When they said they were right: Reggio di Calabria, which looked very much like the land I came to me. It is as if the climate of Antalya was the Italian adaptation of Iskenderun. Even though I am not in September, it seems that this beach and beach town has always been with us, with the warmth of 30-32 degrees Celsius, with humid air, people’s vision, vegetable fruit stone countertops, doorsteps…

From other places, from the north, the losers in speaking of “developed Europe”, but also the proud attitude of being Calabrian, It is a little bit Greek because it remained in the borders of ancient Greek civilizations for thousands of years, but then a little Arab, but a little Arab, but mostly in the dialect of the people of this region called Calabria, some of the words came from Greek for centuries, Norman for centuries, it was a proof of what they were different.

Again, the word “sceccu” (“skeccu”) they used to mean “donkey” in Calabria has remained on the coasts of Calabria, which is said to have plundered Turkish pirates for centuries?

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On the other hand, it was totally different from where I came from Calabria: “Stroncatura” once, “poor” at one time, now the land of black pastry that can be considered “luxury” with its price. When wheat was milled in time, it was prepared with the inner and the shells which were poured at the time, and blended this macaroni with plenty of garlic, pulbiber and olive oil, and they opened a wine beside it. Calabria was also known as the finest place for seafood pasta in Italy. Dry tomatoes, dry ornamental peppers, Indian figs, bergamot, Calabria was every Italian’s mind. No one was daring to collect them with barbed skin, and in Paris they were tagged with an “Italian fig” tag, and they were selling figurines for 2 euros, and no one was looking around and their faces were covered with Indian artifacts scattered around towns and villages.

In Reggio this very sweet and seeded tropical fruit was well below the price of a box in the marketplace.Then this is the Catholic. Perhaps the most colorful part of our travel is our equivalent to the Virgin Mary Feast, which they celebrate every second week of September. This second big event was the second Saturday in September, when they were descending from the highest point in Reggio, carrying the tribute to the cathedral of the Virgin Mary in the center of the town, the windows of all the young old Italians in the city, and the streets where religious rites passed. Hundreds of sculptor volunteers, scout groups, the Red Cross, band music are added to this gigantic march, perhaps the most serious and serious face of which was the passage of clergy and women.

During the march, the crowds read aloud in a loud voice, completing all together with “amen” and coloring the colored images with their colorful Damas carvings on their balconies. On the same Tuesday, kisses and jellyfish sent to Virgin Mary Sculpture accompanied by the crosses, then on the street celebrations that have been going on since the saturdays, they were taking on the established market stalls.  The most popular one was Tarantella, the traditional dance of southern Italy and Sicily …

TURKISH PROCEDURE TARANTELLA “What is Tarantella?” Says the great cousin, Menotti: “It was a dance, a kind of challenge, a head-holding dance that men only made once. Today, women and boys play. ” Tarantella with a melodiously resurrecting melody is a dance that is found in the 17th century. In the 19th century Tarantella turned into the symbol of the Kingdom of Two Sicily, and today it is the first game that comes to mind when it comes to Italian folk dance abroad. The word “Tarantella” is thought to be derived from the word “tarantola”, a poisonous spider, which is very common in southern Europe. Already Tarantella is initially thought to be caused by people who are bitten by a poisonous spider and can not stay in place. It is also known that with this fast and dynamic dance, the belief that someone throws the poison of your spider through the sweat is once widespread.  Nowadays, there is no need for spiders to bite Calabriales to play Tarantella, and everybody, male and female, especially like the Virgin Mother’s Day, is doing this relish with religious celebration. Perhaps the greatest concern of the crowd gathering in front of the cathedral is to be able to voluntarily come from nearby villages and dance with the musicians who play accordion and tef. In Tarantella, speed is very important in hand and foot movements. When I saw the photo, the group chef invited only two people to dance for just five minutes each time, and he called me dancing.  When I interpret Tarantella, which I can only watch for half an hour, the crowd keeps tempo and drowns: “Obviously the lady is foreign, Tarantella is not doing it, she is throwing belly!

DAY HOUR START AFTER 17.00 Another thing that comes to mind about Reggio Calabria is the “Riace Bronzes”, which were released from the Mediterranean in the 70’s. One of these two Greek sculptures, dating from the 5th century, in the coastal town of Riace in the city, depicts a young person and an elderly person. The sculptures are considered among the masterpieces of the Greek era. It is not in vain that foreign tourists go to the Magna Grecia Archeology Museum just to see these two sculptures. The statue is in the rest of the city. Reggio Calabria is a city with a population of 150 thousand people. It is one of the 10 new tourist destinations in the world of marine tourism according to a survey conducted in 2010. In the summer, Reggio people who have completed all kinds of work outside early in the morning and who are in their pale homes before noon, spend their days sleeping and resting after lunch. The day starts again for them after 17:00, until midnight.  With the contribution of Mother Mary’s Feast, they love to spend a little time in the cool air until late hours on the streets, The banks of the seashore are full of young Reggio. Calabria, which has the highest rate of unemployment in Italy, is known for its obedience to the people of the north, like Sicily. “In the north, he stops himself at the head of a shop with a shop, he works himself,” says Menotti. “Here, the shopkeeper never works, he makes a clerk for three pennies, he puts his job in front of the patronsa shop, he puts a cigarette in his hand.” In fact, by closing the shop around noon and reading the newspaper in front of the shops they opened again around 16:00, they spend time.

The cousin I searched under the gray and cool skies of Paris, after returning from these warm people of the south, after the rich Mediterranean paradise, after the warm seas of the sea, was both tearful and so meaningful about “Calabria nostalgim”: “Turkish girl! You found the earth in Calabria! ” Could be, maybe he’s right when you say … Calabria’s beautiful neighbors It was not possible to go back to Reggio di Calabria without going to Sicily, which is just 20 minutes by ferry from the hele hele ferry to the sights around it. Here are the corner points in Calabria and its surroundings where you must see Italy.