Unforgettable scents, colours, and flavours: a visit to Reggio Calabria is a real feast for the senses. Located between the sea and the mountains, this land enjoys a vast historical, cultural, and artistic heritage, as well as a very ancient culinary tradition.
Reggio di Calabria is the largest city and the most populated comune of Calabria.
As a major functional pole in the region, it has strong historical, cultural and economic ties with the city of Messina, which lies across the strait in Sicily, forming a metro city of less than 1 million people.
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Reggio is the oldest city in the region, and during ancient times, it was an important and flourishing colony of Magna Graecia. Reggio has a modern urban system, set up after the catastrophic earthquake of 1908, which destroyed most of the city. The region has been subject to earthquakes.
It is a major economic centre for regional services and transport on the southern shores of the Mediterranean. Reggio, with Naples and Taranto, is home to one of the most important archaeological museums, the prestigious National Archaeological Museum of Magna Græcia, dedicated to Ancient Greece (which houses the Bronzes of Riace, rare example of Greek bronze sculpture, which became one of the symbols of the city). Reggio is the seat, since 1907, of the Archeological Superintendence of Bruttium and Lucania.
The city centre, consisting primarily of Liberty buildings, has a linear development along the coast with parallel streets, and the promenade is dotted with rare magnolias and exotic palms. Reggio has commonly used popular nicknames: The “city of Bronzes”, after the Bronzes of Riace that are testimonials of its Greek origins; the “city of bergamot”, which is exclusively cultivated in the region; and the “city of Fatamorgana”, an optical phenomenon visible in Italy only from the Reggio seaside.
Visit Reggio Calabria
Reggio Calabria is a real feas. A region to discover that is rich in history and art, quite vast and full of attractions suitable for all sorts of tastes.
divided between the sea and the mountains, reggio calabria produced an interesting combination of flavours and colours
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