| Located at about 240 m a.s.l., it includes a vast and diversified territory that stretches from the fertile plains to the sea, from the hills to the Murgia, surrounded for 3 Km by a wild canyon, once the defence for the entire plain. Ginosa is the Genusia mentioned by Plinius, a town with an ancient history. Its village, called Casale, was a rock settlement dug in tuff caves. It was a Greek colony, first, and then a roman colony. In the Middle Ages, although provided with a castle built by the Normans, it was attacked and passed into the hands of many feudatories. The new settlement dates back to the XVI century and the Mother Church provides the evidence of it. A great number of caves exist in the walls of the canyon, with finely decorated rock churches, a tangible sign of the stratification of human presence over the centuries.
The extended hydraulic reclamation works carried out after World War II added great value to agriculture in the Ionic economy and reforestation campaigns in the Fifties further facilitated the construction of tourist installations. |