Tropea, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Twelve kilometres southwest along the coast from Briático, TROPEA can claim to be the prettiest town on the whole of the southern Tyrrhenian coast, and (after Maratea) the most fashionable, with a seaside charm missing from many of the other Calabrian resorts, and not yet entirely eroded by the annual influx of tourists. The buildings have character without being twee – see particularly the lovely Norman Cathedral at the bottom of Via Roma, whose interior harbours a couple of unexploded American bombs from the last war (one accompanied by a grateful prayer to the Madonna), a Renaissance ciborium and a … more »