Cleto Igers Experience, that is: discovering the village to return Petramala Castle to citizens and tourists after the restoration works. The free event organized by Igers Calabria, Igers Cosenza and the Municipality of Cleto (CS) to enhance and promote the territory in full Igers style has the patronage of the Calabria Region and the Province of Cosenza and the partnerships of the Antonino Scopelliti Foundation and the Ambassadors of Calabria. The experience will take place Saturday 22 June, from 4.30 pm with an appointment in Piazza Aldo Moro and, in addition to the social photographic walk in the alleys of the village, the igers will offer participants a 360 degree sensory journey through musical shows and the tasting of products of the local culinary tradition: cheese and honey, oil and the characteristic “cialetta”, the typical Cletese bread.
It will literally be an uphill journey, and not just the emotional one, because the day will take visitors up to Cleto medieval castle at sunset. The fortress, built by the Normans who settled on the slopes of Monte Sant’Angelo, had a clear defensive purpose, as can be seen from the two towers, one of which can be visited and will be the window onto the Tyrrhenian Sea at sunset during the Cleto Igers Experience.
“After a very long wait – states the Mayor of Cleto Armando Bossio – the moment has finally arrived that the Cleto community has been waiting for for years: on 22 June the Petramala Castle will officially open its gates to the public for the first time and will be ready to welcome all those who want to visit it. After the opening and reorganization of the Angevin Castle of Savuto two years ago – continues the mayor – with the opening of the Petramala Castle we are close to realizing and giving shape to the Ccommon of the two Castles, a peculiarity that will give the opportunity to visit two castles of medieval origin in a single village, an extraordinary source of pride for our entire region and the whole of the south.”
“Today the territorial marketing – says Federico Falvo, Regional Manager of Igers Calabria – and Cleto is doing it in an excellent way: a look at the short term and one at the long term in order to activate all the stakeholders of the territory in the creation of unique value for the entire country system. We at Igers Calabria with our communities – continues Falvo – have been moving along this path for some time and we can only accept the invitation of the municipal administration to become an active part in the creation of this value to begin donating it to our entire region.”
The Cleto Igers Experience will end in Piazza Aldo Moro with dinner and DJ set.
(Cover photo: Katia Minniti)
