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Gerace Landscape
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The old parable says if you want your house to last build your foundation on stone not sand but Gerace managed to do both with its people founding the town on a 500m sandstone butte. Along with 15 other beautiful Calabrian villages Gerace is named to the list of the most gorgeous borgo’s in Italy and deservedly so as I hope that I have demonstrated in some small part with this series. Gerace was also my first introduction to Bergamot which we took to quickly after our first taste, we stopped at Sapiri e Sapuri that has local products buying anything that had Bergamot in it, special thanks to the kind lady that kept me from tasting the bath salts 😉
I took this on Sept 16th 2023 with my D850 and Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 G2 Lens at 29mm, 1/250s, f3.2 ISO 800 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia ,Topaz, and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism and still a work in progress
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The history of Gerace is closely linked to that of Locri at the coast, as the inhabitants abandoned Locri and fled from a Saracen attack and piratical dangers. They settled inland, where is Gerace now.
The Locrian diocese was moved to Gerace and the innumerable presence of churches and monasteries helped to identify the fortress as a kind of Holy Mount. Because of its particular position, however, Gerace soon became a center of exceptional importance. The possibility of controlling coastal traffic, and the natural fortification, meant that it became the object of attention of the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Sicily. In 986 the Saracens briefly conquered the city, but it returned to Byzantine control until the Norman conquest in 1059. Gerace was the seat of a principality under the Normans.
The "Basilica Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta di Gerace" is one of the largest sacred buildings in the region. The construction was started in the Norman period, with a projecting transept that reflects the Norman customs. The church was consecrated for worship in 1045. In the Swabian period, in 1222, a second consecration took place.
The building was hit by several earthquakes over the centuries, which led to a number of significant changes.
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"Ma perchè esser qui è molto, e perchè sembra
che tutte le cose di qui abbian bisogno di noi, queste
effimere
che stranamente ci sollecitano. Di noi, i più effimeri.
Ogni cosa
una volta, una volta soltanto. Una volta e non più.
E anche noi
una volta. Mai più. Ma quest'essere
stati una volta, anche una volta sola,
quest'essere stati terreni pare irrevocabile"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Nona Elegia