Calle Crotón

The name travels to southern Italy, to the shore of the Ionian Sea, where Achaean settlers founded the city of Croton around 709 BC. Its fame came through Pythagoras, who settled here around 530 BC and built the school that blended mathematics, music and an almost religious way of life. Croton also produced Milo, the athlete who won six times at Olympia and who, so the story goes, carried an ox across his shoulders. The city also boasted a school of physicians renowned throughout the Mediterranean. In the streets of Valdeacederas, Crotón is a short road lost among the lanes of old Tetuán. There is no record of why the name was chosen. What remains is the echo of a Greek city where the world was measured in numbers and a man carried a bull on his shoulders.