REGGIO CALABRIA. Southwest Italy. Major city of Calabria province. Travel recommend destination

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Reggio has been around forever. The “Calabria” or “di Calabria” was tacked onto the name after unification so as not to confuse it with Reggio Emilia up north. Its history predates the Greeks, who settled this strategic location at the exact center of the Mediterranean in the 8th century BC. They called their colony Rhegion, which was subsequently Latinized by the Romans and transformed through the ages under the area’s various rulers.
The casual visitor looking around Reggio for the first time might wonder just what happened to the old town that the good people of Reggio (the Reggini) had called home for so many epochs. The simple answer would be earthquakes, principally those of 1783 and 1908, two devastating seismic events that crushed southern Calabria and eastern Sicily. Consequently, Reggio’s architecture appears rather modern concerning its long history.
Nestled against the foothills of the Aspromonte Mountains, Reggio Calabria sits along the Strait of Messina at the very tip of the Italian peninsula. The Lungomare or waterfront is a great place for a stroll, either down at beach level or along the upper promenade, which flanks what is commonly referred to as Via Marina, a pair of north-south coastal roads laid out in boulevard style.