Travel Guide Isola Di Galli - Îlots De Galli

Greek mythology identifies islets like the residence of sirens. The beautiful singers would have stayed here for a long time at the foot of the Amalfi coast mountains. And when we see how fast Mount Sant'Angelo ai Tre Pizzi plunges from his 1 400 m to throw himself into the sea, it is said that she should be captivating the sérénade of the palmed beauties. In the meantime, Odysseus also heard him, firmly attached to the masts of his boat, so as not to be able to join the gulfs appeal of the sublime notes of Parthénope, followed by Leucosie and Ligée, his faithful surrendered. He resisted. His crew rendered deaf by wax stoppers could not yield to the temptation either. Thus humiliated, the Queen of Sirens, used to capsize the hearts, let herself die. His body dériva and ends on a beach of Naples, where the castle of the Egg was built. As a result, the first name of Naples came from the legend of Parthénope. One thing is certain, these islands have been inhabited since Roman times as witnessed by the ruins. The Romans loved this splendid coast very much and did not believe in sirens.In the time of the glory of the Amalfi Empire and its market power, it was transformed into prison. One of the posthumous from Amalfi falling into disgrace was even imprisoned there. Then the pirates who, as everyone knows, have a certain taste for the sirens, found refuge here, to better plunder the remains of an empire in full decline, to bring back to their sirens in the Saracens country, pretty gifts, and thus to make their long absences of freedom from freedom. The islets, three pearls lost in the infinite blue, then remained long without resident. Finally, at the beginning of the th century, they were bought by choreographer Leonid Massine. The singing of the sirens inspired the movements of the great Russian dancer Rudolf Noureïev. They belong today to a family of Sorrento, and unfortunately do not visit.