The History of Arena (for  the  photos push here.)

Castled on a hill to 496 ms. S. m., around 2005 inhabitants appropriated on a territory of few more than 35 kmqs, it in one of the most beautiful towns in the vibonese hinterland, rich of nature, history; and art of ten don’t know. The height of the position offers a suggestive visual and a characteristic historical center that he has preserved the original urbanistic identity. The center is a Museum of Places and modest cottages, abandonee farms and wild paths they mark tastes and different styles of life. The shortage of building space has resulted inn the first nucleus around the castle, and he has given at times origin to a series of constructions so lower case letters conceived for the narrow necessary, often in a only room where, in the past, was consumed the existence of whole families. The inhabited area, after turns of alleys and little scale, it stops him on the tallest point, called campanaro, attractive district of few meters where in the past there was lock out tower for control the territory. Characteristic is away giudecca situated in the low  part of country, That Middle Ages to want of Fred the second was stated the Hebrews that introducing in Arena the art of the tincture and the tannery. All inhabited area is the fruit of the local talent that he has known how can challenge the alert rocky folding up it in the demands of his inhabitants. Tortuous alleys and building stairways make the tourist walk interesting. From all the points can be enjoyed of spectacular panorama of inestimable beauty that goes from the narrow one of Messina to the coastline of Paola that in the clearest days can see isle the Eolie  perceived in a magic chromatic game of blue and green, dark and light colours from the thousand tonalities. Town of remote origin, bears the same name of a city of elide APHNH. It was Romanae Municipium  and, to the time of the Puniche  Wars military garrison whit the name of Castrum Arenese. It was Roger I, the Norman to assign the Terraes Arenarum to his natural child Roger Culchebert, in fact the founders said they Culchebert or Corchebret de Arenis. In the territory of arena on Roger’s I domination to Bruno of Colony Hortenfausts, the chartreuse of Greenhouse St. Bruno Rose. The feud was also possessed by the Acquavivas of Aragon by the dukes of Atri and by the Caracciolos. It was important center of silk and lumber. Recognized Universities under the Aragonesi ones it directed the fates of a vast territory that it went from the Ionian to the Tyrrhenian that was chief town of it. Appreciable architectural civilian and Cleric patrimony represented from the Castle, from the Civic Building, from nobles buildings and from Churches of interesting cultural and artistic values. In them they are preserved valuable statues among which the Christ Resort and the Madonna of the good Board are signalled. The heart of the city life is represented by the plaza, only in near district for ampleness and elegant. Dialect is rich in terms of great – Greek – Latin, French, Spanish origin. Of stranger but ancient origin  (to. 1098, St. Clementis de arena; to. 1325, in earth Arenarum; century XV, monasterum St. Petri de Arenis), probably takings name from an authoritative family that held it in feud for over six hundred years. It had under his own jurisdiction the casali of Acquaro, Brazzaria, Ciano, Dasà, Gerocarne, Limpidi, Migliano, Potamia, Pronia and Samiatone, that constituted besides a vast State even though in a small part privated in the 1497 of some earths assigned in dowry to Lance in Aragon, Goffredo’s Borgia bride, akin of people Alexander VI. Chief town of a wide feud, has given already the native to G. N. Conclubet, Official of the resistance against the Turkish fleet to Otranto (1480); Joseph Ingles, poet and patriot (1823 or 1828 – 1911); Pagan Savior, General and writer (1875 – 1950) and to the basilianis Lawrence and Pietro, remembered for their virtues. It is to Arena Thomas Campanella, in organizational phase of the famous conspiracy, it resided fifteen days guest of the Marquis. Downstream in the ancient suburb, overhung from the mighty Norman castle, the ruins of the monastery of St. Pietro  of arena persist, building 1436 medieval ages, devoted to the Saint Lawrence and Pietro.