Gioia Tauro is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria , on the Tyrrhenian coast. It has an important port, situated along the route connecting Suez to Gibraltar, one of the busiest maritime corridors in the world.
Gioia Tauro has been continuously inhabited for more than 2500 years. From about 400 BC or so it was inhabited by Greek colonists who called it Matauros or Metauros . Solinus write that it was established by Greeks from the Zancle.
It was one of the smaller ancient Greek centers among the settlements in Southern Italy . The ancient poet Stesichorus is said to have been born there. The remains are a little further inland in the old town of Gioia Tauro on a rise overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Address: Gioia Tauro, Reggio di Calabria, Italy
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