Calastay

Places

Where to go, and how long it takes

Beaches, villages, castles and canyons, with the drive from wherever you start: an airport, a town or where you are now.

Photo: Ferdinando Chiodo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Abandoned places

Acerenthia

Crotone · 450 m

The ruins of old Cerenzia, left by its inhabitants in the nineteenth century.

Nature

Sila plateau

Cosenza · 1270 m

Lakes, larch pines and quiet: Calabria’s mountains an hour from the sea.

Beach

Arcomagno

Cosenza · 0 m

A rock arch and a small enclosed beach at San Nicola Arcella.

Archaeology

Capo Colonna

Crotone · 15 m

A single Doric column still standing, a lighthouse and the Ionian Sea.

Beach

Capo Vaticano

Vibo Valentia · 110 m

The granite headland with the most photographed beaches of the Costa degli Dei.

Village

Civita

Cosenza · 450 m

An Arbëreshë village above the Raganello gorge, with the Devil’s Bridge.

Village

Diamante

Cosenza · 20 m

The village of murals and chilli peppers, on the Riviera dei Cedri.

Village

Frascineto

Cosenza · 486 m

An Arbëreshë village at the foot of the Pollino, with a costume museum, an icon museum and the Easter Vallje.

Archaeology

Zungri caves

Vibo Valentia · 570 m

A village carved into the rock, on the Poro plateau.

Village

Le Castella

Crotone · 5 m

An Aragonese fortress on an islet, tied to the land by a strip of sand.

Village

Lungro

Cosenza · 600 m

The religious heart of Italy’s Arbëreshë: the seat of the Eparchy, the cathedral of San Nicola di Mira and the old rock-salt mine.

Abandoned places

Old Papaglionti

Vibo Valentia · 400 m

An abandoned village among the olive trees, a few minutes from Zungri.

Village

Pizzo

Vibo Valentia · 40 m

The castle by the sea and the ice cream that made the town famous.

Abandoned places

Old Roghudi

Reggio Calabria · 520 m

An empty village on a spur of rock, in the heart of Greek Aspromonte.

Abandoned places

Ruins of Cirella

Cosenza · 170 m

The ruins of a village on a headland, facing the island of Cirella.

Village

San Demetrio Corone

Cosenza · 521 m

Home of the College of Sant’Adriano, the school that shaped Arbëreshë culture for two centuries.

Beach

Soverato

Catanzaro · 5 m

The wide, pale beach of the Ionian coast, with a seafront that comes alive in the evening.

Village

Tiriolo

Catanzaro · 690 m

The village of the two seas: from the top you see both the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian.

Off the postcards

Abandoned and little-known places

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