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The province of Vibo Valentia is a shrine of art treasures, which is well protected. In the noumerous museums, starting in the provincial capital, there invaluable historical and artistic values, like the Laminetta Aurea of the 3rd century before Christ, one of the best maintained orphic scriptures ever found in Italy and Greece. But in this region there cannot only be found art in the museums but it is also reflectted in the architecture of the monumental palaces in the various old towns, in the stone portals, the mosaics, which decorate the antique villas and the attitude of the population which since centuries expresses their religious admiration in In the old Grecee myth story of Phersephone, symbol of the season and the supremacy of life about death, the roots of Vibo Valentia have their origin, where the wild beauty of the village ara opposing an ancient past. The reign of the Greeks at Locri as well as the Romans, Byzantines, Angevins and Aragons have Characterized Vibo Valentia and the region and this is still visible everywhere today.the art of handicraft.

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.

Scene of millenary history, proud of its past as an important fortress town and the aristocratic families which turned it into a thriving centre the most symbolic resort of Capo vaticano and, above all, the emblem of tourism in Calabria. A vocation developed over the years and which has exploded in recent times in the point where the town is well establisched on the international tourism circuit.

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.