Tindari, erected over a rocky promontory, stands out to the horizon and what immediately it hits of the landscape they are not as well as the archaeological ruins how much the Sanctuary of the Black Madonna that surpasses the hill where, probably, a time had to find ancient the acropoli. On the opposite depositor to that one of the Sanctuary, on a slope that declines towards the sea, Tyndaris rises the founded greco-roman colony in the 396 a.C. from the tyrant of Siracusa Dionisio the Old one after the Victoria on the Cartaginesi. During the diggings, under the vestigia roman, numerous they are the reperti archaeological recovered, many of which pertaining to the Rodi-Tindari-Vallelunga culture and that they find reply in the ceramics found on the islands of Filicudi and Lipari.

The city was encircled from powerful walls along the margins of the cape, came popolata from coming from profughi from the Messenia and they called it Tyndaris in honor of Tindaro spouse of Offends and putativo father of Elena and the Dioscuri, Castore and Polluce. During the Wars Puniche Tindari it showed fidelity to Rome and for this, after the unravelled one of Cartagine, ricompensata receiving part of the booty from Scipione Emiliano. In imperial age, after that had become Colony Augusta Tyndaritanorum, a smottamento of the land makes to collapse a part of the city in sea that, reconstructed, maintains to the system of IV the century a.C. with wide roads and parallels.

In the fifth century Tindari it becomes center episcopal, then, in the 836 it comes completely destroyed from the Saraceni and abandoned Today Tindari appears like a garden where fichi of India, agrifogli and agaves they encircle the ruins and monuments. The high part of the city is occupied from the Terme of the colonnade of the II century d.C. with one vestibolo that it is opened on various rooms adorned from marmorei mosaics in.bianco and black that represent a Taurus with the caps of the Dioscuri, protecting of the city, and the symbol of the Trinacria. The mosaics pave represent them marine scenes, fighters, Satyrs and Dionisio with the panther. The lived one rises on the full of rocks spur, many houses have a luxsurious aspect with terme private, the Fontanas and large you perished them with columns in plastered bricks.

From the tall one, going down from the

promontory, a magnificent scenery of benches of white sand emergent is opened by the sea.

The Greek Theater of Tindari was built in the first decades of the foundation of the city, exploiting a natural avallamento of the ground in the immediate proximities of the boundaries of the side south, to some hundred meters from the principal door. The cavea is opened to horseshoe toward a pianoro on which the houses of the city were thickened, on I break down him/it the aerial view of the sea with the Eolie Islands and Milazzo Cape.

The diameter of the semicircle of the theater measures 60 meters, the stage reserved to the orchestrralis 24 meters, from the sides it was accessed the staircases that served from seats, prepared on 28 lines, divided by 8 small staircases. The steps formed by blocks of stone sandstone very similar to those used for the construction of the boundaries present a concave foot-strap to prevent the feet of the spectators to bump the persons' back sat in the underlying step. The Theater suffered remaking in epoch imperial Roman, when the new farmers deduced from August to repopulate the city they prevailed on the local Greek element.