The origins The name derives from the Latin “rosetum” (rose garden) because here there was a widespread cultivation of roses, that grew even in the cold months, while the words Capo Spulico were added in 1970 due to the geographical proximity of the town to the Cape Spulico, which separates the Gulf of Taranto from that of Corigliano Calabro, and was once the border between Sibaritide and Siritide. 
Rose petals on which to rest your tired legs Originally Roseto was one of the satellite cities of Sybaris, in the days of Magna Graecia. In Roseto were cultivated roses, whose petals were used to fill mattresses on which the Sybarites slept. Today’s Roseto was born in the tenth century A.D. and reached its peak in 1260 when the Castrum Petrae Roseti (Roseto Castle) was built. After a period of decline and submission to baronial power, aggravated by the unification of Italy, only at the end of the seventies a “progress in tourism” for Roseto began: in recent years the Borgata Marina has definitely got its shape, having been a hamlet until then inhabited only by a few families of fishermen who lived around the railway station.
