Magna Grecia

Grecìa Salentina: The 11 Italian villages where Greek is still spoken to this day

Grecìa Salentina: The 11 Italian villages where Greek is still spoken to this day

If there is one country with which we Greeks feel close, it is Italy, and not just because of geographic…

3 months ago

Visiting Naples? The sweets you MUST try in the capital of Magna Graecia

It is certainly not an exaggeration to say that the capital of Campania and the largest city in a region…

3 months ago

Aremu Rindineddha, a beloved Griko song from Magna Graecia

A take on Aremu Rindineddha, a beloved Griko song originating from the Greek-speaking villages of Magna Graecia, Italy. Griko is…

3 months ago

Unearthing History: Ancient Helmets Hint at Epic Greek Victory in Magna Graecia

In 540 BC, a momentous and bloody naval battle unfolded off the coast of Corsica, then known as the Sea…

4 months ago

Magna Graecia calls out to Greece: Sicily, the largest "Greek" island in the Mediterranean

Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean with a great and rich history, is well known for many reasons besides…

4 months ago

January 22, 1956: Death of Italiote-Greek Giuseppe Musolino, the "King of Aspromonte "

On this day, we remember the life of the Italiote-Greek Giuseppe Musolino, the “King of Aspromonte.” An infamous folk hero…

4 months ago

Calabrian Greeks: "We feel close to our brothers in Greece because we know they consider us brothers"

Newsbomb.gr released the video of Part 2 of their long trek in southern Italy and Sicily, in the areas once…

4 months ago

Greeks of Italy's Magna Graecia: "We don't feel Greek, we are Greek because no one can change our DNA"

Something great is happening on the other side of the Ionian. We are talking about Southern Italy and Sicily, or…

4 months ago

MAGNA GRAECIA: 2 Doric temples found in ancient Greek city of Poseidonia-Paestum, Italy

Two ancient Doric temples were unearthed in the Ancient Greek city of Poseidonia, modern Paestum, south of Naples in southern…

4 months ago

The Grecanico Villages of Italy – Delianuova

Delianuova [Greko: Δέλια] is a Grecanico town of 3,200 inhabitants, in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. Unfortunately, its inhabitants…

7 months ago

CROTONE: Martial arts students in southern Italy greet Mother Greece for Greek Independence Day

Students of the Scuola Guardia Krotoniate, a martial arts school in Crotone (Κρότων) in southern Italy, gave their greetings to…

1 year ago

New DNA study confirms the modern populations of southern Italy, Sicily, Greece and Cyprus are similar!

A brand new DNA study found that the modern populations of southern Italy, Sicily, Greece and Cyprus have very close…

1 year ago

Galitsiano: The Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated in the Calabrian Greek village

The Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated on March 5 by the Christian Orthodox population of the Italiot Greek village of…

1 year ago

Italian surnames of Greek origin

Of extraordinary importance in the formation of southern Italian surnames, especially in Calabria, is the Greek contribution, a natural process…

1 year ago

Grecanico, the Greek dialect of Calabria - "A fire is burning under the ashes"

A handful of young people have decided to put themselves at the forefront to preserve the age-old language of the…

1 year ago

MAGNA GRAECIA: March of the Dionisyan Cult in Crotone, Italy (VIDEO)

A march of a Dionisyan Cult was performed on Thursday at the T.R.A.C.C.E Festival in Crotone, southern Italy (Magna Graecia)…

1 year ago

White Olives: A rare variety of olive originating from ancient Magna Graecia

Leucocarpa, also called Leucolea, unique white olives with origins from the ancient Greeks that colonised Magna Graecia, today's southern Italy.…

2 years ago

Hellenic Foundation for Culture: Agreement between Greek-speaking Southern Italy and Greece is signed

On October 18 at the facilities of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, specifically in the renovated Bodosaki house, in the…

2 years ago

Walking through Bova - A majestic Griko speaking-village in Calabria, Italy

Bova is one of the Greek-Bovesian speaking villages of Bovesia, one of the two Griko-speaking areas of southern Italy. The…

2 years ago

Return of the Old Gods: Temple dedicated to Apollo consecrated in Tarantino, Southern Italy (VIDEO)

In Ancient Greek mythology, Apollo, the Sun god, was the bearer of an intellectual light, even before a physical one.…

2 years ago