The excavations conducted in Locri-Centocamere by the National School of Archaeology in Rome between 1950 and 1956 and directed by Gaspare Oliverio and Elisa Lissi are one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in southern Italy in the second post-war period. This paper wishes to pay homage to Elisa Lissi Caronna, who recently passed away, by analysing her personality as an archaeologist and field director through the excavation records that she left us. At the same time, it attempts to take stock of our knowledge of the vast area of Locri Epizefiri excavated in the 1950s, using the results of the archaeological investigations subsequently carried out by the local Superintendence and the University of Turin and offering a first presentation of the rereading of the Oliverio-Lissi’s Excavation Diaries conducted in the 1990s in parallel with the consolidation and conservative restoration work on the precarious ruins of Centocamere.
