Legend of the Lavatoio of Cefalù
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At the entrance to the medieval wash house of Cefalù there is a script that tells how this place is linked to a legend.
According to this legend, the Cefalino river, whose water is conveyed into the wash house, rises from the pain of a nymph. She repented for having punished with death the betrayal committed by her husband.
Many connect this myth to the love story between Daphni , the young shepherd poet inventor of the Sicilian bucolic song, and the nymph Naide who after discovering the betrayal made her mother Juno dig out the eyes of the beloved. The desperate and blinded man, in the act of taking his own life, was transformed by Hermes into a cliff, today's fortress overlooking the city of Cefalù.
