The origins of Zambrone are scarce and fragmentary. According to the nineteenth-century historical literature and the dictionaries of Calabria that refer to it, it was founded around 1310, by the survivors of Aramoni, an ancient Greek village that stood near the Potame river.

It was Robert of Anjou who ordered the burning of the houses of Aramoni, to punish its inhabitants of the wickedness and ferocity that they had shown in the long war between Angevins and Aragonese. Those who were saved from the fire took refuge in San Giovannello, today known as Madama. After a short time the Aragonese were, however, forced to leave the sea for the repeated Saracen raids and, then, founded the current Zambrone. The name Zambrone, of Greek origin, means "noble house for wine and oil".

Zambrone wine and oil are praised in famous texts of Calabrian history such as those of Barrio, Sacco, Sergio, still today constitute an important part of the agricultural production of this country and are considered among the most refined of the whole surrounding area. Particularly renowned is the white grape of Zambrone (now, however, endangered) called zibibbo, from which is obtained an excellent dessert wine. From ancient times, therefore, the rich and flourishing countryside of Zambrone bestows its precious gifts! Another distinctive element of its fabulous landscape and its tenacious millennial culture is the sea. The slopes of the hills, the waterways, the rocks: everything that belongs to its nature seems to stretch to the sea.

And if the "land", the campaign constitutes one of the two souls of the civilization of zambrone own the sea can be considered its second soul, since from it, in a remote past, came not only mourning and devastation because of pirate invasions, but also richness and diversity of cultural values, which are revealed, even today, in the acute temperament, ingenious, imaginative and, also, suspicious of its inhabitants.

The history of this small and delightful town in Calabria is, therefore, always for the good and the bad closely linked to the sea. A very ancient history, going back to which you get lost in the dark myths of the Grecità, that still today, are evoked by the sea, deep, crystalline, rich in treasures jealously hidden in the bottom of its abysses (extraordinary marine vegetation and an exceptional variety of fish). The legendary Itacesie islands, so called in memory of the homeland of Ulysses, according to the writings of Pliny and Solinus, stood exactly between the Rock of the Galea (Capo Vaticano) and Punta Zambrone. Some say that the Scoglio della Galea itself, formed by pools and strange underwater tunnels, could be the last wreck of this archipelago. If, then, we stop to observe the bizarre shapes of some rocks of Marinella, a fascinating cove of Zambrone, we understand why folk tales handed down creatures with strange features, some identified in the collective imagination as Sirens, who frequented such places. The nearby beach of Sant'Irene, in fact, is probably originally called "Sirene".