'''Reggio di Calabria''' is in Calabria, Italy. It is the Bergamotto city.

Get In

By boat

There are ferries to Messina from the west pier at the end of Via Florio about once an hour (every 2-3 hours on Su)!

By train

The trains stop both at Lido (harbour) and the main harbour in the south end of town. The main station has a small tourist office, that will give you a very good map of the town.

Get around

Understand

Lungomare is the beautiful promenade along the beach separated by the inland Corso Vittorio Emanuele by a small strip of botanical garden of palm trees. A few blocks inland (east) Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi is the main artery of Reggio.

During the summer Reggio is as dead in the daytime as a Sergio Leone movie. From 8 to 9pm Corso Garibaldi is full of people. After that everyone is at Lungomare.

See

Do

  • '''Lido Communale''' For ?1 you get a daypass to this northern beach, a changeroom, use of showers etc.
  • Buy

  • '''Bergamotto liquor'''. Similar to Limoncello.
  • Eat

  • '''Cordon Bleu''', Corso Garibaldi 203, Tel: ''+39 0965'' 332447. Very posh with waiters in black tie and white tuxedo, paper hats on draught beer etc. It is a glorified fastfood joint selling ice cream, crepes, pizza slices, crispelline and other dished that are heated after you make your choice. But the E16 tourist menu is good and they have one thing on all other restaurants in town. The location of their wagon/tent on Corso Garibaldi.
  • '''La Dolce Vita''', Viale G. Zerbi (''Next to Museo Strumento Ncionale''), Tel: ''+39 0965'' 895173. Makes excellent ice cream. You can eat them on the terrace.
  • Drink

  • '''Pepy's' beach''' [http://www.pepys.it, Lungomare, Tel: ''+39 320'' 2147980. Great place to have a quiet beer, limoncello, bergamotto, or cocktail while watching the lights on Sicily and listening to the waves hitting the rocky beach.
  • Sleep

  • '''Albergo Noel''', Tel: ''+39 0965'' 890965. Not the most charming hotel with big fluorescent lights, fake wood paneling, and bad plumbing. But clean and run by a very friendly couple. ?40 for a double with a bathroom and breakfast.
  • '''Hotel Grimaldi Palace Cittanova''' ? Via Trentino Alto Adige, 1 - Cap: 89022, Cittanova (RC), Italy. [http://www.hotelgrimaldipalace.com/]. Telephone +39 0966 653512 ? Fax +39 0966 655247. Ten large suites able to accommodate even four people for this four start hotel located in the little town of Cittanova, in the province of Reggio Calabria, which also offers a Health Centre, and for the business travellers, a Conference Centre.
  • Contact

  • Via de Nava 142. ?5/hour. Discount for students. Close at 8:30pm. USB storage.
  • Get out