Travel to Calabria
In fact, I visited Calabria twice this year, in March and May. Since I rented small hotels, they are unlikely to be on the lists of the site to write reviews on them. Therefore, I will briefly describe what is interesting in the region.
The first time I flew by Alitalia directly to Reggio di Cadabria. In the spring, this is a good way, charters do not fly yet, and round-trip tickets through Rome are still inexpensive - around 1.000 rubles.
In May, the cheapest tickets were to Naples (1.000), from Naples to Reggio there is a direct train (trenitalia. ru), which takes about 4 hours or something to the city. Also a way.
Now I'm going to go for the third time, because I remembered that my routes in Italy are not particularly described on travel sites. In summer, the best way, in my opinion, is a charter. Charters in Reggio and Lamezia terme are sold by Tris T. They also sell tours, which are sometimes at the price of a charter (300-400 euros), but mostly they are in the Capo Vaticano or Pizzo area.
I have not been just in this area, so now I am fishing for August-September exactly there.
Where I was: Reggio Calabria is a convenient point for traveling not to everything (it is inconvenient to Tropea), but to many colorful places in the region. Nearby - Melito di Porto Salvo. Melito has impressive mountains (see photo album) and equally impressive sandy beaches, huge and mostly wild. Nearby is Gambarie, it is a mountainous area, in winter they ski there. Great views: mountains and sea. Nearby is Shila (Scilla), a small colorful town with a fortress on the rocks and houses built in a hill, as I have seen only on the Greek islands, as well as in Kavala and Kastoria. At the same time, Shila also has beautiful sandy beaches, but I would not recommend Shila for the Season - it is small and there are a lot of people. May and September yes.
The hotel that I liked during all my travels is a hotel in Shila, b&b Stella di Mare, with a hospitable Italian hostess who bakes briochini for breakfast on her own ...a cozy place where, besides me, I remember, Australians and Italians who came from north.
Cheap accommodation in southern Italy is B&B, but basically nothing special, Stelle di mare is near the station, from which 10 minutes by train to Villa san Giovanni with ferries to Messina, and 15 minutes to Reggio, as Reggio is a city - boring spend a week in Ş ile lying on the beach. And a view of the sea, albeit a side one.
But, I repeat, I would recommend independent trips for May and September and tours - for the summer, as part of the tours, hotels are better, but the places are different (higher, there, to Campania). Tropea, according to those who have been there, looks the same as Shila, but not so shallow, I can imagine - the same rocks, the coast of the same Tyrrhenian sea, blue-transparent.
The Tyrrhenian Sea is more beautiful, the Ionian (in Melito and Reggio) is warmer, but of course July-August - you won’t feel the difference.
What to see in Reggio itself - since it is a kind of center of the region - the Duomo, the Museum of Greater Greece, the promenade - the best kilometer of Italy, according to the poet ...parties on the beach near the promenade in the evenings. Also, people go to Reggio to study Italian (Dante Alighieri Institute for Foreigners), and many Russian students.
In fact, I know a lot about Calabria, but - ask, because it will not work to tell everything in 2 words. I just indicated which regions and nuances I know. I can provide details if needed.
