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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.