Riviera dei Cedri · Calabria
17 places across 17 towns, selected and fact-checked by the ALTICOS editorial team against open sources. Each entry tells the story of the place, shows the town and the map, and links to the ready-made itineraries that pass through it.
Aieta The village at 524 metres, one of the Borghi più belli d’Italia: the Renaissance Palazzo Martirano-Spinelli, sixteenth-century churches, the 1520 monastery of the Friars Minor and chapels of several centuries, above the Tortora valley.
San Nicola Arcella The upper village of San Nicola Arcella, with the alleys of the Casaletto, the murals and the belvedere overlooking three regions.
Grisolia The village perched at 465 metres opposite Maierà: covered alleys called spuortu, exposed stone, ceramili tiled roofs, the 15th-century Palazzo Ducale and the Civic Ethnographic Museum, with the Riviera dei Cedri below.
Maierà Maierà’s lanes at 360 metres, facing the ravine that separates them from Grisolia: contemporary artworks along the alleys, the Chilli Pepper Museum and four churches, in the Pollino park.
Belvedere Marittimo The upper town on its 150-metre spur: the Chiesetta del Rosario with its 1091 portal, the birthplace of Saint Daniele Fasanella, the walls and the view over the Riviera dei Cedri.
Guardia Piemontese The village 515 metres up where Guardiolo is still spoken: stone alleys, the year-1000 tower, Sant’Andrea, the Dominicans’ wooden choir and the portal of the Spinelli marquises.
Bonifati The village 425 metres up between two cross-topped hills: the ruins of Castel Bonifati, the Rosary sanctuary, the Convent of San Francesco di Paola, the Calvario, the Annunziata and the noble palazzi.
Cetraro The Paese 120 metres above the Aron valley: the three gates of the fortified town, the little squares “a giorgia” and “miezzu a curta”, the Chiesa del Ritiro of 1454, San Nicola, the Capuchins and the Sette Mari fountain.
Fuscaldo The village 350 metres up between the Maddalena and the Mercaudo: the stonemasons’ stone portals, the mother church of 1166, San Giuseppe, San Giovanni Nuovo and the memory of the Spinelli marquises’ castle.
Mormanno The village at 820 metres divided into the Costa, Capo lo Serro, Casalicchio and Torretta quarters: the 9th-century Annunziata, family chapels, sanctuaries, the botanical garden and Mario Cucinella’s church.
Orsomarso The village born around the fortress of Ursus Martius: the panoramic clock tower, the Brancati baronial castle, the church of San Giovanni Battista with Collimodio’s canvases, the Franciscan convent and the water mill.
Sangineto Sangineto’s hilltop village, gathered around the Sanseverino castle: Santa Maria della Neve with its 17th-century portal, the Convent of San Francesco di Paola and the chapels of San Giuseppe, the Carmine and San Michele.
Santa Domenica Talao The Spinellis’ 17th-century village at 304 metres over the Lao valley: Piazza Italia with the wild olive tree and the panoramic terrace, the Campagna, Perrone, Schiffino, La Greca and Longo palazzi, the chapels and the Museo della Terra.
Scalea The medieval core of Scalea, set on the promontory, with alleys, stairways, churches and palaces that tell the town's Norman and Angevin history.
Tortora The village of Julitta on its rocky spur: the stone portals of the palaces, the mother church of San Pietro Apostolo, the Annunziata and the memory of the Basilian monks and of Garibaldi.
Verbicaro The village of the Battenti and the Zigni: stone portals, the Vico Vignale, the Old Fountain, the Clock Tower and seven churches, from the mother church of the Assunta to the sanctuary of San Francesco di Paola.
Paola Paola’s old quarter between the Porta di San Francesco, the Clock Tower, the saint’s birthplace, the Norman-Aragonese castle and the Pisciariddi fountain.
3 daysThree days among spa, Palaeolithic cave and mountains of the Pollino National Park.
4 daysFour days among spa, cave, mountains and river in the Pollino National Park.
4 daysFour days from north to south along the Upper Tyrrhenian Cosentino coast: islands, Norman towns, murals and sanctuaries.
2 daysTwo days among rock arches, islands and lidos of the Cosentino Tyrrhenian coast.