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The product: Monte Poro ewe's cheese is the area most famous cheese. It is loved by locals and tourist alike. The latter are always eager to find it in the menu. This cheese is available in every season since the ewes provide milk throughout the year. Delicious with any meal, in all seasons it makes a perfect addition to any meal. Hors d'oeuvres or salad, or meal: with or witout bread and salami.

There are numerous tradition that popular devotion has handet down in Tropea, some with origins dating back over one thousand years. Legend has it that the icon of the black Madonna of the cathedral of Tropea was stolen by local sailors from the Byzantine east (from which the epithet Madonna of Romania originates). Worschip of the Madonna intensified when the salvation of the town, which only suffered minimal damage following the earthquake of 27th March 1638, was attributed to the protective action of the Madonna. Bishop Ambrogio Cordova had visions of the Madonna on different occasions in his dreams warning of an imminent earthquake that would bring devastation to the whole of Calabria and asked him to organise a procession of repentace involving the entire population of Tropea.

The ancient centre of Tropea is one of the most interesting and one of the best preserved of the region, retaining its seventeenth and eighteenth century layout.

Intersecting alleys enable visitors to discover picturesque corners with ancient buildings and portals of outstanding workmanship, squares that have preserved their medieval appearance, panoramic terraces and unique views of the sea.

The sloping roofs of the houses are covered with "ceramide", the ancient roofing tiles, as they are called in these parts, splendidly visible with their 'movements' from the provincial road which descends towards the sea from Mount Poro.

An area of little importance during the most distant eras, Tropea developed as a qtown, above all, during the occupation of the Byzantines to whorm the town remained loyal for a long time. Its recent past  saw it become a prominent centre in politics and the economy: indeed a wealthy landed bourgeoisie developed,whose fortune is still visible today in in the seemliness of the numerous buildings in the historic centre.

Tropea also had a flourishing maritime trade which enabled the town to maintain economic ties with all countries in the Mediterranean.

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.

Enchanting sea place with over 7 km of coastline of white sands, marked out with two white sails in the guide "Blu" of Legambiente.

Zambrone has about 1.740 inhabitants and included five hamlets: New Zambrone, S. Giovanni, Daffinà, Daffinacello and Madama.