Car Rental Reggio Calabria Minniti Airport (REG): Low Cost

Reggio Calabria Tito Minniti Airport (IATA code: REG) is the southernmost airport in mainland Italy, overlooking the Strait of Messina with an extraordinary view of Mount Etna on clear days. Its unique position makes it the ideal gateway to explore the extreme south of Calabria and, in a twenty-minute ferry ride, even Sicily.

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From Reggio Calabria you reach in a few minutes the Falcomatà Seafront, the village of Scilla, the Aspromonte National Park and the Costa Viola, with its beaches among the most striking in the Mediterranean.

The first mandatory stop is the National Museum of Magna Graecia, which houses the famous Riace Bronzes: two Greek statues from the 5th century BC, among the absolute masterpieces of ancient art, recovered from the sea floor in 1972. The museum is in the heart of Reggio Calabria and is worth the trip alone.

On foot from the museum you reach the Falcomatà Seafront, defined by Gabriele d'Annunzio as "the most beautiful kilometre in Italy": a walk among palm trees and bougainvillea with views of the Strait and Etna is a hard-to-forget experience. At sunset the sky turns orange and the silhouette of Sicily stands out clearly on the horizon.

Just 25 km from Reggio you'll find Scilla, one of the most picturesque villages in all of Calabria: the Chianalea fishermen's quarter, with houses that seem to float on the sea, and the rock with the Norman castle offer postcard glimpses. In the waters of the Strait of Scilla swordfish fishermen still follow millennial traditions.

The Costa Viola, the stretch of Tyrrhenian coastline between Scilla and Palmi, owes its name to the colour the sea takes on at sunset: an intense and shifting violet that has inspired painters and poets. By car you easily drive the SS18 main road, with stops at Bagnara Calabra, the Calabrian capital of swordfish, and at Palmi with its long beach and the Folklore Museum.

Inland, the Aspromonte National Park offers a wild and primordial landscape: the Zervò Plains, the Maesano waterfalls and the abandoned villages of Africo and Roghudi Vecchio tell of a Calabria far from the tourist routes. The Aspromonte holds endemic species of flora and fauna and beech forests that in autumn are tinged with a thousand colours.

Those who want to push as far as Sicily can take the ferry from Villa San Giovanni (5 km from Reggio): in 20 minutes you're in Messina. With a rental car collected at Reggio Calabria Airport the trip can easily extend to eastern Sicily, making holidays even richer.

Driving the Ionian main road north from Reggio Calabria you cross the Costa dei Gelsomini (Coast of Jasmines), so named for the jasmine plantations used in French luxury perfumery. The beaches of Brancaleone and Bova Marina, with fine sand and transparent waters, are a pleasant surprise for those who expect only mountainous roughness.

At about 75 km you meet Gerace, one of the most intact medieval villages in Calabria: the Norman cathedral, the largest in the region, preserves spoil columns from ancient Locri. The historic centre, perched on an impenetrable cliff, was so safe that it was never conquered during the Saracen invasions.

A little further on, Locri Epizefiri brings to light the vestiges of the ancient Greek colony of the 7th century BC: the theatre, the sanctuary of Aphrodite and the museum are among the most significant archaeological sites of Magna Graecia. With Tino Rent you choose the right car for this road trip among history and natural beauty along Ionian Calabria.

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