Reggio di Calabria, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

As you approach REGGIO DI CALABRIA , the provincial capital, you travel through some of the most extreme landscapes in the South. Dilapidated villages lie stranded among mountains, which are themselves torn apart by wide fiumare , or riverbeds – empty or reduced to a trickle for nine-tenths of the year, but swelling with the melting of the winter snows to destructive torrents. Reggio itself was one of the first ancient Greek settlements on the Italian mainland; today, it's Calabria's biggest town by some distance, with a population of over 180,000 – but also one that's been synonymous for … more »