Krimisa

Krimisa was an ancient town probably founded in the seventh century BC in what is now Calabria in southern Italy, believed to lie at Punta Alice near modern Ciro Marina, and it developed as a Hellenized city of Magna Graecia incorporating an existing indigenous population. Greek legend credited its founding to the hero Philoctetes on his return from the Trojan War, and the sanctuary of Apollo Aleus associated with the city has been extensively excavated. Occupation passed through Greek-Italic, monumental Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman phases before the city was devastated, first by Pyrrhus and finally by destruction in the late third or second century BC; excavations led by Paolo Orsi in the 1920s and later campaigns recovered artifacts now held in regional museums.