"At this spot is one of the views on
which those few travellers who pass from Reggio
to Naples by land are accustomed to bestow
enthusiastic praise ; nor is it unworthy of its
reputation. A flat promenade or platform,
half surrounded by seats, and a balustrade,
the resort of the evening idlers of Palmi, is
terminated at one end by the clustering churches
and other buildings of the town ; and at the
other, sinks down into the blue sea, a perpen-
dicular cactus-clothed precipice."
Edward Lear; Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, 1847
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