What places to visit in calabria
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In addition to its natural attractions, Calabria also has a unique cuisine, with intense flavors, which highlights the spicy chili pepper or “peperoncino” that is used to season everything from toast or “bruschette” to “n’duja” (pork spread), and is part of the “caviar of the poor”, the “sardella” sauce based on sardines. Also not to be forgotten is the use of ingredients such as bergamot skin, sweet onions, swordfish and horse meat, and the different varieties of handmade pasta such as “strangugghj”, “fileja” and “maccaruni”.
Proposed route: Lamezia Terme – Cosenza – Scalea – Pollino NP – Frascineto – Civita – Altomonte – Spezzano Albanese – Rossano – della Sila NP – Santa Severina – Crotone – Capo Colonna – Le Castella – Catanzaro – Scolacium Archaeological Park – Stilo – Locri – Gerace – dell’Aspromonte NP – Reggio di Calabria – Scilla – Bagnara Calabra – capo Vaticano – Tropea – Pizzo Calabro – Lamezia Terme.
Scalea and the Riviera dei Cedri: The northern stretch of the Tyrrhenian coast is called “Riviera dei Cedri” because of the abundant presence of cedar plantations. Highlights include the stretch between Amantea and Belmonte, the town of Diamante with its fashionable stores and brightly colored murals, the dark sandy beach of Praia a Mare and Scalea, with a beautiful walled historic center.
What to visit in calabria
Some accommodations in this area are offering free or heavily discounted accommodation to help people arriving from Ukraine find a safe place to stay (ID must be presented upon arrival).
City centre hotel, contemporary, pristine, staff were helpful and considerate, room was well equipped and (29deg outside at night) air-conditioned and street noise subdued by shutters/glazing. Plenty of choice of Osteria and smaller eateries,bars,taverns, local good food, friendly locals.
Touring calabria by car
Some accommodations in this area are offering free or heavily discounted accommodation to help people arriving from Ukraine find a safe place to stay (ID must be presented upon arrival).
City centre hotel, contemporary, pristine, staff were helpful and considerate, room was well equipped and (29deg outside at night) air-conditioned and street noise subdued by shutters/glazing. Plenty of choice of Osteria and smaller eateries,bars,taverns, local good food, friendly locals.
What to see in calabria
Indeed, although almost all of us know Italy, and quite possibly we have been there several or many times (logical, since half of the world’s artistic heritage is there), it is also true that the tours to the transalpine country focus on a few cities, magnificent, no doubt, without reaching many others of exceptional value, which, in addition, being much freer of visitors, can be known with the serenity and normality that every traveler desires.
The third great goal, splendid colophon to such an exceptional trip was ROME, the Eternal City, a city par excellence and infinite, with the greatest concentration of world artistic heritage, always with new wonders to discover, and where its sublime creations, so many times seen live, or in photographs or films, offer each time they are contemplated again new and surprising nuances of its extraordinary beauty.
Along with these three exceptional goals, as we “climbed” during the 12 days of the trip to Rome, we visited other beautiful jewels, all of them World Heritage Sites: the Charterhouse of Padula, Amalfi, Ravello, Pompeii and the Sicilian cities of Catania and Taormina, because to make our trip we flew to the south of Italy, to Sicily, in front of Calabria, and from there, like the Greeks, we arrived by boat to the Calabrian coast.