Scalea

Scalea is a city and municipality in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. The city takes its name from its terraced lay-out on the hillside, at the lowest of the Cape Scalea promontory. The vintage city is positioned on the seashore, the Scalea Marina has these days been evolved, with modern resorts, villas and severa bathing regions at the seashore.

Scalea probable derives from Scala which currently handiest way " ladder " in Italian, however also used to consult any "commercial harbor", initially on a derogatory experience, because the navy ports had been by no means as disorganized as the industrial ones with the makeshift ladders and planks, in place of strong docks and built quays. Scale as harbor, is surely an obsolete Medieval which means, borrowed but through Byzantine Greek as Skala, in addition to by way of Turkish as " İskele ". Scalea, which ruled over the rocky promontory referred to as Scalea Island, turned into evolved in a cavern close to Talao Tower.