Crossword-Solution: ALARO 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The town lies some 300 metres above sea-level on a platform commanding the valleys of the Amusa and Alaro.

Francesco Genovese of Caulonia, to whom I am indebted for much kindness and who is himself a distinguished worker in the humanitarian mission of combating malaria, has published, among other interesting pamphlets, one which deals with this village of Focà, a small place of about 200 inhabitants, surrounded by fertile orange and vine plantations near the mouth of the Alaro.

Presently he continued his reading: "I asked Alaro the angel: 'Which place is this, and which people are these?' "And he answered: 'This place is the star-track; and these are they who in the world offered no prayers and chanted no liturgies.

The site of the town of Caulon does not appear to be known: it is by some placed at Castel Vetere on the Alaro.

The dance of the boys attracts as many spectators to Seville as the ceremonies of Holy Week, and the immense cathedral is full to overflowing on the days when they are to figure in a function.’ Vuillier writes of another occasion of the Spanish temple dances: ‘One of these festivals is celebrated on the 15th of August, the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, the other on the following day, the feast of the patron of the village of Alaro.