We have already spoken extensively about Eloro here and here. It is no secret that he considers it among the most fascinating places in the district and when I have the opportunity, for example to act as a guide to some friends, I go there with pleasure. Just during one of my last walks along the "path" that "connects" the beach of Eloro with the Pizzuta beach, I had the opportunity to focus on some rock formations that, given their particular shape, have always aroused my curiosity, suggesting not only that they had nothing natural (and therefore they were linked to the archaeological remains abandoned behind the fence) but also that that stretch of jagged coast, between the two splendid sandy beaches, in the past had to present itself in a radically different way.


However, I have a duty to clarify that walking that "path" (which I am not by chance writing in quotation marks, because formally it is not a path) is extremely dangerous, since it is very narrow and close to the cliff. There are also wells (probably artificial) in the open air, overlooking the sea. So do not venture to follow it with children in tow or in slippers or at night or drunk drunk ... Among other things, it does not come out directly on the beach of Eloro: it is necessary to climb the rocks, and it is not easy to do so. In short, pay close attention!

We know of Eloro that it was a sub-colony of Syracuse, founded not as a military outpost, that is, in order to sight and contain any attempts to attack by the indigenous Sicilian populations (the significant technological and organizational difference in the military did not make it necessary ), but to occupy a promontory useful for the foundation of a colony by adverse Greek factions (to avoid therefore finding themselves a competitive Greek polis around the corner). Indeed, it is believed that part of the Elorine population was made up of Sicilian indigenous people integrated into Hellenic society, therefore in a climate of relative serenity.

Given the presence of the remains of an agora, at least a couple of temples and a theater, a lively economic and cultural life is conceivable which would have made plausible the existence of a port. Given that in the past, in the absence of mechanical means, a stone would not have moved if it was not necessary, the presence of artificially worked stone blocks close to the cliff, suggests that that area, a couple of millennia ago, welcomed port infrastructures which, abandoned in later periods, then collapsed into the sea due to storm surges (as hypothesized by the evident fractures on the blocks). After the initial and flourishing Hellenic phase, it seems that Eloro was gradually abandoned, probably also due to the excessive proximity and subordination to Syracuse. Gradually the promontory of Eloro was exploited for increasingly exclusively military purposes, as evidenced by the remains of a Roman fortress, on which a watchtower was built in the Aragonese era. The last traces of important anthropizations are lost in the Byzantine era, with all due respect to what temples, theater, agora and port could have developed.