Tiriolo is a town and ''

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in the

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region of southern

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. It was the birthplace of Renaissance painter

Marco Cardisco Marco Cardisco, also known as Marco Calabrese, (Born in Tiriolo c.1486 – c.1542) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples during 1508–1542. Biography He was a pupil of the painter and decorator Polidoro da C ...

. "The houses in the historic center, perched like in a nativity scene, make up the old part of the town, while the new buildings extend along the foot of the hill, nestled between the mountain and the valleys. Legend traces the origins of the settlement of Tiriolo back to Hellenic people six centuries before the Trojan War or even identifies it with the mythical Scherìa, the happy homeland of the Homeric people of the Phaeacians. Archaeological findings, however, support the hypothesis of the existence of a dwelling nucleus since the Neolithic, as revealed by finds such as polished axes, rudimentary chisels and obsidian scrapers. The subsequent Roman presence finds its most relevant testimony in the famous bronze tablet engraved with a text concerning the Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus, a decree of the second century. AC. with which the Roman senate prohibited the Bacchanalia, orgiastic rites in which even the elites participated and therefore considers it the context of possible conspiracies against the state. The artefact, found in 1640, is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, offered in 1727 as a tribute to the Emperor Charles VI of Habsburg."

Geography

The town is bordered by

Catanzaro Catanzaro (, or ; scn, label= Catanzarese, Catanzaru ; , or , ''Katastaríoi Lokrói''; ; la, Catacium), also known as the "City of the two Seas", is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its p ...

Gimigliano Gimigliano ( Calabrian: ) is a ''comune'' and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It ...

Marcellinara Marcellinara ( Calabrian: ) is a ''comune'' and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It is a small village located in the middle of the narrowest strip (isthmus) of Italy and one of the narrowest of Europe as ...

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San Pietro Apostolo San Pietro Apostolo ( Calabrian: ) is a ''comune'' and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy. It is about northwest of Catanzaro, the provincial capital. It is surrounded by the villages of Decollatura, Gimigliano, ...

and

Settingiano Settingiano is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Geography The town is bordered by Caraffa di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Marcellinara and Tiriolo Tiriolo is a town and ''comune'' in the pr ...

Gallery

File:Senatus consultum de bacchanalibus.jpg, Bronze tablet found 1640 in Tiriolo, now at the

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Text shows the Senatus consultum de bacchanalibus, ca. 186 BC

Notes and references

External links

Tourist Association
Cities and towns in Calabria {{Calabria-geo-stub