Punta Stilo

Punta Stilo (Italian for "Cape of Columns") is the name of an arcuate headland in Calabria, Italy. It lies immediately north of Monasterace (the site of ancient Caulonia)[1] and constitutes the western coast of the Gulf of Squillace. Pliny the Elder refers to it by the name Cocynthum.[2][3] The names Punta Stilo and Stilida were mentioned for the first time in the Itinerarium maritimum which dates to the late fifth century AD.

References

  1. ↑ Stanley, Jean-Daniel (2007). "Kaulonia, southern Italy: Calabrian Arc tectonics inducing Holocene coastline shifts". Méditerranée (108): 5. doi:10.4000/mediterranee.152.
  2. ↑ Pliny the Elder. "Natural History". 3.10. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Pliny the Elder. "Naturalis Historiae". 3.10. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

Coordinates: 38°27′16″N 16°34′43″E / 38.45444°N 16.57861°E / 38.45444; 16.57861

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