Briatico is a characteristic fishing and tourist centre on north -western layers of Monte Poro, on the left of the mouth of the Murria River (fiumara, river beds that lay dry in the summer). The inhabited centre rises over a shore between Zambrone and The Santa Venere port. Modern Briatico was built in the present place after earthquake of 1783 that destroyed the previous installation called today Briatico the Old. The tradition dates back the foundation to the Locresi, at the times of their passing in Vibona, but the first certain information date back to the Angioni times. It belonged to the Marzano, princes of Rossano, to the Del Castro-Bisbal family and it was feud of the Pignatelli from Monte Leone until the end of the feudality in 1806. By Briatico the Old, rising on a hill to the right of the Murria River, remain the ruins of the Medieval Castle built by Ferdinand Bisbal and of the old inhabited centre. On the seashore remain two towers from ’500 belonging to the ante-Turkish defensive system: The Rocchetta, a high coast tower with squared drawing, seat of the Corte Feudal of Bisbal;and Sant’Irene tower, built by the Spanish Vice-Royal Government as lookout and versus the barbaric raids. Briatico is the home-town of Cola from Briatico, the only map maker of South Italy before Columbus travellings. From some excavations have been discovered relics of Romans necropolis of Imperial times and rests of a building complex, perhaps baths of Imperial times, too. Along the Murria valley there are hermits and medieval caves and it has been founded a vase with human rests recently and a rich outfit of jewels: it would be a human installation dates back to the copper time.