Piazza Gregorio Caloprese

Central square of scalea a bit chaotic summer but very large and full of places for a good ice cream ..

Piazza Gregorio Caloprese before people wanted to pass the pedestrian, because in reality and gut, I said it was the center of life of Scalea, now businesses are closing

Piazza located in the pedestrian area of ​​the town with places of refreshment as a bar where you can enjoy your aperitif and after dinner. Overall not bad

Bar in the center of scalea, wide choice of desserts, very good croissants, recommended.

Gregorio Caloprese was born in Scalea in 1654, to Carlo and Lucrezia Gravina, who married in Roggiano in 1653, so the legend falls that Gregorio was born in 1650, when his parents still didn't know each other [3]. «From very honest relatives, of city status, in the land of Scalea, located in the country of the Bruzii, in 1650, it was the birthplace of Gregorio Caloprese, or Caroprese ... It was famous for its talent, and for its universal literature. He lived a long time in Naples, and in Rome; finally returned to his homeland he died in 1715 at the age of 65 ... "[4]» His parents soon realized the intelligence of their son and started to study in Naples under the guidance of the scholar Giuseppe Porcella [5] He graduated later in the field most congenial to him of medicine. He always remained in relationship from Scalea, where he had retired, with the intellectual centers of Naples and Rome where his cousin Gian Vincenzo Gravina resided and where Caloprese himself stayed in the late 1600s. In Scalea he founded a school [6] which had a certain renown and participated in the cultural activity of the Academy of Medinaceli, drawing inspiration from it for its anti-authoritarian and anti-dogmatic scientific and philosophical interests that made it deploy on the side of those who subordinated the naturalistic investigation to the rational Cartesian method. Vico, Metastasio [7], Giannone qualify him as "great renatist" [8] but his real philosophical position is rather to be found in those who were closest to him: his disciple Francesco Maria Spinelli who tells how Caloprese, returned from Naples in Scalea he lived the proceeds of some of his properties practicing medicine only for his friends and the poor and which describes the school of Caloprese as founded on literary and scientific study and physical exercise in the belief of the relationship between mind and body. Reading the texts of Descartes was associated with that of Lucretius and Bacon according to the theoretical ideal of a synthesis of experimentalism and atomism, rationalism and mentalism.

Piazza in the center of Scalea with pedestrian area ... In the evening, especially in summer, you can enjoy ice creams and slushes of excellent quality and workmanship .... As well as savory delights expertly cooked by expert hands.