Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ATAM
( 800 43 33 10;
www.atam-rc.it
)
Serves the Aspromonte Massif, with bus 127 to
Gambarie (€1.10, 1½ hours, six daily).
0966 5 79 01)
Serves Rome (€48, eight hours, two daily).
Lirosi
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CAR & MOTORCYCLE
The A3 ends at Reggio, via a series of long tunnels. If you are continuing south, the
SS106 hugs the coast round the 'toe', then heads north along the Ionian Sea.
TRAIN
Trains stop at
Stazione Centrale
( 0965 89 20 21)
, the main train station at the town's
southern edge, and less frequently at Stazione Lido, near the museum. There are frequent
trains to Milan (from €140, 9½ to 11½ hours), Rome (from €70, 7½ hours) and Naples
(from €55, 4½ to 5½ hours). Regional services run along the coast to Scilla and Tropea,
and also to Catanzaro and less frequently to Cosenza and Bari.
Getting Around
Orange local buses run by ATAM cover most of the city. For the port, take bus 13 or 125
from Piazza Garibaldi outside Stazione Centrale. The Porto-Aeroporto bus, bus 125, runs
from the port via Piazza Garibaldi to the airport and vice versa (25 minutes, hourly). Buy
your ticket at ATAM offices, tobacconists or news stands.
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Southern
Tyrrhenian Coast
North of Reggio, along the coast-hugging Autostrada del Sole (A3), the scenery rocks and
rolls to become increasingly beautiful and dramatic, if you ignore the shoddy holiday
camps and unattractive developments that sometimes scar the land. Like the northern part
of the coast, it's mostly quiet in winter and packed in summer.
Scilla
POP 5160
In Scilla, cream-, ochre- and earth-coloured houses cling on for dear life to the jagged
promontory, ascending in jumbled ranks to the hill's summit, which is crowned by a castle
