Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 0963 60 30 18; Via del Monte 7; meals €20-25; dinner Thu-Tue)
Swordfish rates highly on
the menu at this simple seafood place tucked away in the backstreets.
Information
CST Tropea
( 0963 6 11 78;
www.csttropea.it
;
Largo San Michele 7; 9am-1pm & 4-7.30pm Sep-
Jun, to 10pm Jul & Aug)
Helpful tourist office at the entrance to the old town. Can organize
trekking, mountain biking, diving and cultural tours.
9am-1pm & 4-8pm)
In the old town centre.
Tourist Office
(
0963 6 14 75; Piazza Ercole;
Getting There & Away
Trains run to Pizzo (€1.95, 30 minutes, 12 daily), Scilla (€3.70, one hour 20 minutes,
every 30 minutes) and Reggio (from €5, two hours, every 30 minutes).
SAV
(
0963 611
29)
buses connect with other towns on the coast.
Pizzo
POP 9240
Stacked high up on a sea cliff, pretty little Pizzo is the place to go for
tartufo,
a death-by-
chocolate ice-cream ball, and to see an extraordinary rock-carved grotto church. It's a
popular and cheerful tourist stop. Piazza della Repubblica is the epicentre, set high above
the sea with great views. Settle here at one of the many gelateria terraces for an ice-cream
fix.
Pizzo is located just off the major A3 autostrada; the nearest train station, Vibo
Valentia-Pizzo, is located 4km south of town. A bus service connects you to Pizzo.
Sights
Chiesa di Piedigrotta
(admission €2.50; 9am-1pm & 3-7.30pm)
The Chiesa di Piedigrotta is an underground cave
full of carved stone statues. It was carved into the tufa rock by Neapolitan shipwreck sur-
vivors in the 17th century. Other sculptors added to it and it was eventually turned into a
church. Later statues include the less-godly figures of Fidel Castro and John F Kennedy.
It's a bizarre, one-of-a-kind mixture of mysticism, mystery and kitsch. Buy tickets at the
restaurant above the cave.
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