Perched on the cliff of Mount Calvary, at 250 meters above sea level, the formerly abandoned village of Pentedattilo is one of the most picturesque in the southern Italian region of Calabria. 

Pentedattilo, which until recently was called Pentidattilo, takes its name from the curious shape of the mountain that towers above it, which is reminiscent of a cyclopean hand with five fingers - from the Greek pènta-darektylos, or ‘five fingers’. (Pentedattilo is comprised in that area of Calabria that was once dominated by the Greeks.)