Beautiful polis

Gallipoli and the end of one world

Was it in recognition of what they've built or a promise of what it would become that the Greeks of Magna Graecia in Southern Italy named the city of Gallipoli ‘Kallipolis’, beautiful city?

By the 4th century BC, the Salento peninsula in Apulia, the stilleto of Italy, particularly the area around Taranto, was a centre of ancient Greek civilization. Galli…