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	Rossano Byzantine Church of S. Marco (9th -10th cent.)
			The S.Marco temple of Rossano exhales a charming note of poem, deriving by its bare walling, which lift in balance on the cliff of the extreme border of the high part of the city.

	Bizantine Church of Panaghya (9th - 10th cent.)
		The small church of Panaghya is situated in the low part of the town near its centre,  it has some topographical points of reference in the north the Cathedral and the Archbishoprie and in the south a building used for a Secondary Scool.  It is situated among old houses and dilapidated roud menders, which let it without breath and hide the simple pure and harmonious line. It is a precious and holy fragment of Rossano.

Diocesan Museum: "Codex purpureus" Rossanensis
(6th - 7th century).The purple Code of Rossano is an artistical book and, biblical document of great interest. It is actually preserved in the Diocesan Museum of holy art. The Church of Rossano has a well, known merit of having saved and keeping alive those papers of thin and purple parchment, whose freshness has challenged forteen centuries.
The Vatican Library and others wanted to buy the Code, but the Cathedral Chapter of Rossano has always refused to sell it, even though the Code has been shown in different exhibitions.
The Code is a Tetragospel, reached to us mutilated. Infact, during the centuries more than the half of the original code, about 400 papers, has been last.
Today there are 188 papers equal to 376 faces, which contains the whole S. Matteo gospel and a part of S. Marco one (until XVI chapter) in the greek text, illuminated in capital silver and golden letters, on two columns and twenty lines each others, written on purple parchment.
Moreover, it contains a part of Eusebio letter at Carpiano on the concordance of the Gospels. The Code is adorned by fifteen illustrated plates which are the introductions at the evangelic texts. It represents the holy Byzantine art of the 5th - 6th century, made precious by the purple colouring (from which derives the name of Purple Code, by which the biblical manuscript of Rossano is universally known)

Byzantine Church of S. Maria del Pilerio (10th - 11th century).

Abbey of S. Maria del Patire (12th cent.).

 

Corigliano: (km 12) Ducal Castle (15th cent.).

Sybaris: (km 20) Archaeological Museum and excavations (8th - 3rd B.C.)
(See cultural and various activities on this website)

Paludi: (km12) Archaeological park (centuries 9th - 4th B.C.)

Pietrapaola: (km30) Archaeological area (centuries 4th - 3th B.C.)

Reggio Calabria Museum

Crotone Museum

Silano Plateau