(ANSA) - Squillace, July 24 - An amateur scuba diver has discovered what may be the ruins of an ancient city off the coast of Calabria, a local town council said Friday.
Alessandro Ciliberto, an architect with a passion for scuba diving, discovered a group of stone blocks around 3-4 metres under water while he was diving 15 metres from the shore near the town of Squillace on Calabria's east coast.
"Standing out against the sandy seabed there's a dark-coloured form of around two metres in length and a metre and a half wide which seems to be man-made," Ciliberto said.
"Continuing to explore the zone a few metres away, I found a white-coloured plinth half a metre high. Further on, there are a pair of stone blocks, one rectangular and of modest dimensions and the other an undefined shape," he added.
Squillace town council said it was possible that the ruins belonged to the ancient seaside city of Scylletium, founded when southern Italy was a Greek colony.
The town became a Roman colony in 124 BC and was the birthplace of 6th-century Roman writer and statesman Cassiodorus, who claimed that its founder was legendary Greek king Ulysses.
Ruins from the city have previously been found in the nearby town of Roccelletta di Borgia. JULY 16, 2009
Political-Economic - North Italy – South Italy Gap Worsens(Source: ANSA)(ANSA) - Rome, July 16 - Italy's north-south gap is worsening with businesses struggling and more southerners seeking jobs in the north, according to an annual report out Thursday.
In 2008 some 122,000 people left the south, making a total of 700,000 in the last 11 years, said the Association for the Development of Industry in the Mezzogiorno (SVIMEZ).
Many of the internal emigrants were graduates boasting ''excellent'' skills, it said.
The exodus came chiefly from the three regions of Campania, Puglia and Sicily, which accounted for 87% of the outflow.
There was also a 15.3% rise last year in the number of southerners, ''mainly well-educated under-40s'', who commute to jobs in the north.
Long-term job seekers or people who had given up on finding jobs have boosted unemployment in the Mezzogiorno to some 22%, compared to 7.9% nationally.
The South has the lowest level of youth employment in the European Union, with just 17% of southerners between the ages of 15 and 24 in work.
The south was harder hit by the global recession than the north, with GDP down 3.6% and manufacturing output down 6%, while the growth rate of bank lending to firms fell from 14.9% to 7.9%, compared to a contraction from 12.4% to 10.2% in the north.
''The banking sector is still highly dependent on banks in the north,'' SVIMEZ said.
Commenting on the report, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said ''the north-south divide must be corrected''.
Opposition parties accused the government of doing ''nothing'' for the south, with one Communist party saying ''the situation is pitch-black,'' while trade unions called for ''a change of direction''.
Economy Ministry Undersecretary Nicola Cosentino said the south ''risks becoming a land populated by ghosts'' and called for ''a valid and tested development project and a new class of administrators'', especially in Campania, where the situation was ''apocalyptic''.
He found encouragement, however, in the way the government sorted out the trash crisis in Naples last year. Top film director Mimmo Calopresti, a Calabrian native, said: ''There's a sense of fearful abandonment in the south, a desperate situation. It's like a piece of Italy thrown into the sea''. JULY 8, 2009 Political-Economic - G8 Leaders meet at L'Aquila
(Sources: ANSA, AdnKronos, CNN)
The G8 summit meeting is being hosted in the city of L'Aquila. The city, in the midst of a recovery from a devastating earthquake earlier this year, still suffers occasional major aftershocks, making extra security measures necessary. Helicopters are stationed nearby to evacuate the world leaders if the need arises. The choice of L'Aquila as the site of the conference has drawn fire from several critics who maintain that the participants are placed at unnecessary risk by meeting there. The Leaders of the 8 principal democracies, the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Canada and Japan, are meeting to discuss issues dealing with the world economy. Guests representing the European Union and China are also present, although the Chinese President has had to cancel because of unrest in his country. The meeting will include discussions on the worldwide economic crisis, climate change, food aid, and the situation in Iran.
JULY 3, 2009
Archaeology - Ancient Etruscan cemetery found in Puglia
"An ancient Etruscan cemetery has been uncovered by Italian tax police or Guardia di Finanza in the country's south during a police investigation to stop tomb robbers. The cemetery or necropolis is believed to date back to the Etruscan civilisation that existed in central and southern Italy from 1,200 BC to 550 BC before the Roman era. The necropolis was found in the province of Foggia, located in the southern region of Puglia. Police intervention is believed to have prevented the sacking of the 500-square-metre necropolis, in particular five tombs that contained the remains of warriors, buried with precious funerary artefacts dating back to the fourth century before Christ. During the operation, two people were reported to the authorities. The illegal trafficking of antique artefacts is highly lucrative in Italy. The tomb robbers or 'tombaroli' steal the items from ancient graves and other historic sites and later sell them on the international black market."
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The American Institute of Southern Italian Studies is dedicated to the collecting, preserving and passing on of the true history and culture of Mezzogiorno to this and future generations. It is particularly devoted to those territories once known as the "Kingdom of the Two Sicilies." While a land of great diversity, this region can still be viewed as a cultural and historical unit, separate in so many ways from the rest of Italy. The Italian South has roots of its own spreading deep into the past. It has its own cultural and historical tale to tell the world. The AISIS is dedicated to telling that tale before it is lost to time.
Unlike many other web sites dealing with Southern Italy, we have tried to make ours as politically neutral as possible. We want to show the unique and colorful richness of Southern Italian history and culture, but not view it through "rose-colored glasses." There are many Southern Italian heroes and we want to tell their stories. But the villains are there as well and sometimes even more interesting to tell about.
Southern Italy may be the land of Pizza, Pasta, and the Mafia, but it is also the land of Archimedes and Pythagoras. In short, it was, and still remains, a land of human beings full of greatness and high accomplishments, but as fallible as any other society.
The Mezzogiorno, literally the "Land of Midday," has never had much appeal to foreigners, especially in comparison to the more northerly regions of Italy. The Italian South was seen by travelers of past centuries as a sort of cultural wasteland with cities inhabited by masses of poor, lazy, half-savages. The French traveler Charles de Brosses, having visited Naples in 1739, described these mobs of poor lazzari as "the most abominable canaille, the most disgusting vermin that ever crawled on the face of the earth." As for the upper classes, they were generally seen as a boorish lot, with a tasteless preference for gaudy baroque styles and little refinement.
Outside Naples, few other cities were ever visited. The countryside was overrun by savage brigands and peasants who lived in conditions far worse than anywhere else in Europe. There were many, in fact, who refused to even acknowledge that these lands and their inhabitants were even part of Europe. Another French writer recorded in 1801 that "Europe ends in Naples, and it ends there rather badly. Calabria, Sicily, all the rest, that's Africa."
Even today southern Italy is seen as being a place of political corruption, run by criminal organizations like the Mafia, the Camorra, the 'ndrangheta, etc.
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