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The origins of Tropea are uncertain and as a result of this uncertainty reference is ofthen made to fanciful popolar tales and legends. The most common hypothesis (Pliny the Elder) is that the town was founded by Hercules who stopped while he was passing through the Tyrrenhian sea and constructed a port (from where the name Porto Ercole originates). Another describes how Sextus Pompeius, victorious in a battle against Octavius Augustus off Capo Vaticano, decided to celebrate his triumph by founding a town, Trofaea (Triumph), from which the name Tropea derives. There are others, however, who maintain that the name Tropea is attributable to local sailors (for which tropee meant tha plays of dangerous marine currents which characterise the area). During consolidation work carried out on the cattedral during the 1930s finds were discovered which testify in any case to the presence of Human settlements since the Neolithic period (3000 b.C). In the 1960s a necropolis dating from 1200s b.C.  was discovered near the cemetery, while more recent archaeological excavations (1980) unearthed ceramic fragments and building structures dating back to the 5th Century b.C. In the Torre Galli area, on the edge of the Poro plateau, there are the remains of a necropolis from Iron Age.