Hotels to remember: Scilla
Hotel Cala di Volpe
Capo Vaticano (Vibo Valentia) - 4 Star Hotels
Calabria's Cala di Volpe Hotel Resort, located on one of the region's most beautiful beaches, is the ideal place for an unforgettable holiday by the sea.
Suite 70
Reggio Calabria (Reggio Calabria) - B&B and Homes
Located in the heart of Reggio Calabria, just steps away from the city's seafront promenade, Suite 70 is the coolest B&B in town
La Locandiera
Scilla (Reggio Calabria) - B&B and Homes
La Locandiera is a welcoming b&b situated in the heart of Scilla, historic fishing town and one of Calabria's best known bathing resorts.
Hotel Cala di Volpe
Capo Vaticano
Suite 70
Reggio Calabria
Ipomea Club
Santa Maria di Ricadi
La Locandiera
Scilla
Travel ideas
Itineraries (Calabria and Basilicata) Itineraries
A journey through time
Tracing the Ionic coast, a journey through modern-day Calabria; a land which still conserves sites of great archaeological and religious importance
Itineraries (Calabria and Basilicata) Itineraries
Calabria "coast to coast"
Sea and mountains. A journey from the Tyrrhenian coast to the slopes of Aspromonte.
Scilla: introduction
On the Viola coast, Scilla takes its name from the color which the waters assume at certain hours of the day. A age old center for the fishing of swordfish with the characteristic boats known as "Passerelle", which are still used to this very day.
Scilla is divided into three principal districts: the bathing resort and commercial center of Marina Grande, San Giorgio, residential area where the town hall and hospital are situated, and Chianalea, the picturesque fishermen's district with its houses built right on the shoreline with the sea which washes up into the tiny lanes.
To see: the Castle built by the Normans and the Mother Church. The name Scilla is linked to the legend of Ulysses, who, having sailed his ship too close to the cliffs of Scilla in an attempt to distance himself from the vortices of Cariddi, fell in to the sea and managed to escape certain death only thanks to the intervention and protection of Crateide, mother of Scilla, whose invocation was suggested to Ulysses by Circe.
