Tindari
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Tindari is a small city in the Province of Messina in Sicily, between Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and Cefalù. Tindari was founded as the Greek colony of Tyndaris in 396 BC, and was located on the high ground overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea in the Gulf of Patti.
The Battle of Tyndaris took place off the coast in 257 BC.
It has a famous sanctuary and is also famous for the poem Vento a Tindari, written by Salvatore Quasimodo.
Local legend tells that the lagoon was created after a pilgrim who came to see the Madonna refused to pray to the Madonna because she was black. The woman accidentally dropped her baby into the ocean and the Madonna made the land rise to save the baby. The sands of Marinello have taken shape of the profile of the Madonna.
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