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In Calabria, Getting a Taste of an Unspoiled Italian Summer

By: Lee Marshall

I had been in Calabria for less than 24 hours when I found myself standing in an artist's bottega in the town of Pizzo and listening to Antonio Montesanti talk about the Greek hero Achilles.

Just outside the door, cars and Vespas vroomed past, but as this cheery straw-hatted painter and ceramist talked about his Southern Italian region's deep connection with the distant Mediterranean past, the cars became chariots and the scooters morphed into mules.

Source: https://www.cntraveler.com

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