Reggio Calabria

Port, transport nexus and the main arrival and departure point for Sicily, Reggio seems more functional than fascinating. That is up until the point you set foot inside its fabulous national museum, custodian of some of the most precious artefacts of Magna Graecia known.

Marble memorial monument to Vittorio Emanuele III by Camillo Autore (Palermo 1882-Meran, 1936) with Promachos Athena statue, with Strait of Messina in background, Falcomata promenade, Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy

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