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Natural PlacesSite Name: Giganti di Pietra di Campana Alternative Name: Pietre dell'Incavallicata, Cozzo dei GigantiCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 18.951 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Calabria Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Campana Nearest Village: Campana
Latitude: 39.400525N Longitude: 16.816386E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Sculptured Stone in Calabria
The Campana Stone Giants, also called Incavallicata Stones, are two rock formations - possibly megalithic sculptures, near Campana in the Sila national park.
There are no certainties regarding the origins of the two megaliths, in fact if on the one hand they are considered the fruit of human ingenuity, it is also probable that the shapes have been shaped by atmospheric phenomena over the years. The two formations were already known in the 17th century, as evidenced by a writing by the bishop of Isola Francesco Marino, who defined the statue identified as Cyclops: "The great colossus that fell to the ground due to earthquakes". Furthermore, the area in which they are located was defined in a map of Calabria drawn by Giovanni Antonio Magini in 1603 as "Il Cozzo dei Giganti".
Considering them to be works of sculpture, three different hypotheses have been formulated on their dating: the first traces them back to Pyrrhus' expedition in the early years of the 3rd century BC, given the proven presence of war elephants in the army of the Epiriot monarch; the second hypothesis does not differ by many years from the first, claiming that they were built by Carthaginian soldiers under Hannibal during the Second Punic War; the third finally identifies the Elephant with the reproduction of an example of Palaeoloxodon antiquus, a species of elephant that lived and became extinct in the Pleistocene, attributing the creation of both monoliths to the first inhabitants of Calabria. The discovery of an almost intact fossil of antiquus in the nearby Cecita lake would confirm the hypothesis that that species inhabited the Sila area.
The first statue, called "Elephant" is 5.5 m high and could represent a war elephant or a Palaeoloxodon antiquus. The second, 7.5 m high, is mutilated at the top but appears to represent the legs of a human being and has therefore been renamed "Cyclops" or even "Seated Warrior".
Wikipedia page (in italian) available at:
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giganti_di_Pietra_di_Campana
More links and photos:
www.famedisud.it/elefante-di-pietra-dellincavallicata-larchitetto-canino-riaccende-i-riflettori-sulla-misteriosa-scultura/
turistipercaso.it/news/adriatica-sulla-rotta-dei-popoli-del-mare-le-pietre-dell-incavallicata.html
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