Riviera dei Cedri · Calabria
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Ready-made stop-by-stop itineraries, curated places and a quick quiz to find your trip — from Tortora to Paola.
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Four itineraries to get started — sea, towns, flavours and nature. Open the full index or take the quiz below for more.
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2 daysSea & beachesSea & beaches
Two days among rock arches, islands and lidos of the Cosentino Tyrrhenian coast.
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3 daysTowns & historyTowns & history
Three days among old towns, castles and the only Occitan language island in southern Italy.
6 stops5 townsAll year roundSee the stops -
2 daysGrand tourFlavours of the Riviera
Two days among citron, chilli pepper and harbour: the typical products of the Upper Tyrrhenian Cosentino coast.
4 stops3 townsAll year roundSee the stops
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What to do on the coast
Sea, towns, culture and flavours: four ways to enjoy the coast — where will you start?
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The Riviera dei Cedri
Beaches, seaside towns and sunsets over the Tyrrhenian: the Upper Tyrrhenian Cosentino is the Calabrian coast between Tortora and Paola, the Riviera dei Cedri. Here’s what to see and how to plan your trip.
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Praia a Mare
The beach town of the Upper Tyrrhenian Cosentino coast on the Basilicata border: the island of Dino with its sea caves, the rock sanctuary of the Madonna della Grotta and the towers that once watched over the shore.
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Scalea
The town of the “landing” on the Riviera dei Cedri: a terraced old town of covered passages, churches born in Byzantine times and watchtowers, the Torre Talao with caves inhabited in the Palaeolithic, and the feast of the Madonna del Carmine with the cinte carried on the head.
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Diamante
The “town of murals” and chilli-pepper capital at the heart of the Riviera dei Cedri: eight kilometres of beaches, the island of Cirella and a fishing village turned open-air art gallery.
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Belvedere Marittimo
A medieval village 150 metres above the Tyrrhenian with the Sanseverino Renaissance castle, a wooden crucifix of 1711 and a chapel dated 1091; at its feet the Marina, the Bruttian tombs of Capo Tirone and the Note di Fuoco fireworks festival.
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Cetraro
The abbot’s town: from 1086 to 1810 Cetraro was a fief of the Benedictines of Montecassino, remembered in the church of San Benedetto with its Baroque organ, the three gates of the old town and the sea procession of 11 July. Below, the Marina, Borgo San Marco and the marina.
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Paola
The town of Saint Francis, patron of Calabria: the sanctuary in the Isca valley, the underground church of Sotterra with its Byzantine frescoes, the Seven Channels fountain and the Rocchetta quarter, at the southern end of the Upper Tyrrhenian Cosentino coast.
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Acquappesa
The town of the “hanging water”: six kilometres of coast between the Fiumicello and the Bagni river, a village its people call U Casàle, the woods of Monte Pistuolo and the Terme Luigiane, with sulphurous springs known since antiquity and five Giro d’Italia stage finishes.
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Mormanno
The mountain village at 820 metres between the Pollino and the Orsomarso Mountains: the 1928 votive lighthouse for the Calabrians who fell in the Great War, the Baroque mother church of Santa Maria del Colle, the 9th-century Annunziata and a town that looks from the Upper Tyrrhenian Cosentino hinterland over the Mercure valley.
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- It is the Tyrrhenian coastal strip of the province of Cosenza, in Calabria, along the so-called Riviera dei Cedri.
- By plane to Lamezia Terme (SUF), by train on the Tyrrhenian line (stations from Praja-Ajeta-Tortora to Paola) or by car on the A2 motorway. Interactive guides with maps are under Practical tips.
- Beaches and lidos, towns and historic centres, cultural sites and views over the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- We guide you through sea, towns and places worth discovering along the coast. Follow a ready-made route or build your own, save it and take it with you.
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