Scilla is an Italian town of 4,896 inhabitants in the province of Reggio Calabria in Calabria. It is a popular tourist resort located on a promontory at the northern entrance to the Strait of Messina. From 4 January 2020 he is twinned with Canzo. Scilla is located on the homonymous tip, which rises 22 km north of the capital: the Scillèo Promontory, stretched out over the Strait of Messina, which in ancient times was in fact called the Strait of Scilla.
The origins are ancient, confused between mythology, history, legend and poetic images fueled for millennia by the suggestion of the natural environment. According to Greek mythology, Scylla was a marine nymph who out of jealousy was transformed by Circe into a monster while bathing in a cove near Zancle (today's Messina); instead of his legs he had six dog heads that barked, and long snake tails. The story is told in Ovid's Odyssey and Metamorphoses.
The coat of arms is thus described in the municipal statute: it consists of a monad with a siren with a woman's face inside and the word "SCILLÆ CIVITAS" on the outer edge. It therefore depicts a mermaid crowned with two tails held together with the hands, and bears the Latin wording Scillæ Civitas (the city of Scilla). The coat of arms is not enclosed in the traditional Samnite shield normally prescribed for the coats of arms of Italian municipalities.
Scilla
Address: Piazza S. Rocco, 8, 89058
Phone: 0965 754003
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