130 km south west of Taranto. It used to be Sybaris, founded by Greeks and notorious for luxury and loose living. Archaeologists have unearthed a Greek town on the mudflats of an estuary, underneath a Roman settlement already excavated. The broad but feeble Crati river must have been navigable then – the material brought to light suggests that Sybaris was an entrepôt port along a trading corridor between Greece and the cities of Etruria. The uninformed visitor finds the site extensive but exhausting. Some fragments of pots and statues have been put on display in the Parco dei Tori beside the main road; others are housed next door to the railway station (see www.sibariturismo.it/?g=Museo-Archeologico-Nazionale-della-Sibaritide).