Reggio Calabria Italy
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Cruises availables
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| 26 March | 15 days | One-way from Barcelona to Piraeus-Athens | |
| 26 March | 14 days | One-way from Barcelona to Piraeus-Athens |
Frequently Asked Questions
Right beside the city centre, and that is one of this call's strengths: no shuttle needed. A few minutes on foot bring you to the seafront and then to Corso Garibaldi, the main shopping street.
Yes, easily. The city is covered on almost flat ground along the shore, from the archaeological museum to the Aragonese castle by way of Corso Garibaldi. No transport is needed for the essentials.
The National Archaeological Museum for the Riace Bronzes, then the Lungomare Falcomatà promenade facing Sicily, a quick espresso on Corso Garibaldi and a look at the cathedral and the Aragonese castle. A simple, full morning, all within walking distance.
Two Greek statues from the fifth century BC, spotted in 1972 by an amateur diver off the village of Riace: two larger-than-life nude warriors with taut muscles and silver teeth. They are among the few original large Greek bronzes to survive, and are displayed in a climate-controlled room entered through a protective airlock.
The cities of Magna Graecia. The collections tell the story of Locri, Sybaris and the Greek colonies that made this coast, long before Rome, a piece of Greece. The museum sits almost on the Lungomare Falcomatà, which keeps the day simple.
The seafront promenade, which locals happily call the most beautiful kilometre in Italy. Palms and century-old ficus trees, Liberty-style villas, Greek and Roman remains surfacing between the flowerbeds, and always, across the water, the outline of Sicily.
Because the 1908 earthquake destroyed almost all of it. The city was rebuilt on a grid of wide, regular streets, which explains its appearance. The cathedral, raised again after the quake, presents a broad pale two-towered façade, and the round towers of the Aragonese castle recall the centuries when the city held the strait for the kings of Naples.
A citrus fruit that grows almost nowhere else, cultivated on this coast, whose essence has scented Earl Grey tea and fine perfumery since the eighteenth century. Shops along Corso Garibaldi turn it into liqueurs, jams, sweets and colognes: a bottle of local essence is a light souvenir you cannot find elsewhere.
Yes, on a clear day. The Strait of Messina is crossed by eye alone: Sicily seems within reach, Etna smokes on the horizon and ferries weave between the two shores. The benches on the Lungomare facing the strait are the best vantage point.
The euro and Italian. Cards work at the museum and in Corso shops, but keep cash for granita bars and pastry shops. English is not widely spoken outside the museum: Calabria still sees relatively little international tourism.
