Punta Stilo (Italian for "Cape of Columns") is the name of an arcuate headland in Calabria, Italy. It lies immediately north of Monasterace (the site of ancient Caulonia)[1] and constitutes the western coast of the Gulf of Squillace. Pliny the Elder refers to it by the name Cocynthum.[2][3] The names Punta Stilo and Stilida were mentioned for the first time in the Itinerarium maritimum which dates to the late fifth century AD.[citation needed]