Castiglione

Many Italian cities have been named Castiglione, but the site of Castiglione di Paludi is one of the oldest, having been settled since at least the ninth century BCE. It is thought to have been founded by the Greeks of Thurii, possibly even serving as the headquarters for an alliance of much of Magna Graecia versus the Lucani and Syracuse, before eventually becoming a major centre of the Bruttii and later being abandoned.