Cosenza, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

COSENZA is the region's most interesting town, and makes a useful base for exploring the surrounding area, particularly the Sila mountains. Historically it has always played an important role in the commercial and intellectual life of Calabria (Norman Douglas wrote, with characteristic hyperbole, "for acute and original thought this town can hardly be surpassed by any other of its size on earth"), and recently the town has generated a degree of wealth which – while still some way below most of Italy – has in the last twenty years or so literally transformed the landscape. New … more »