Palinuro

Some excavations carried out in the locality of S. Paolo around the 1950s brought to light an archaic necropolis dating back to the sixth century. B.C. with very interesting burials and funerary furnishings, including a coin reproducing the inscription PAL-MOL on one side and the effigy of a running wild boar on the other.However, some clues and some legends would indicate the human presence in those places, already three centuries earlier.There are no traces or elements attributable to the Roman era, although it is likely that the characteristics of the promontory were used with diligence by both commercial and military ships of ancient Rome.With the Saracen raids and the decline of nearby Molpa there was the urban and residential increase of Palinuro in concomitance with the Norman occupation.We have for certain a raid by the Saracens on 11 June 1464 with very serious damage inflicted both on the inhabited area of Palinuro and in other localities in the surrounding area.