Instead of Tropea
Instead of Tropea: coastal towns within 2 hours
Tropea has a church on a rock, a red onion with its own IGP, and a July that has to be seen to be believed.
The Calabrian Tyrrhenian coast runs for two hundred kilometres either side of it with the same water and a fraction of the beach umbrellas.
Coastal towns in our catalogue within 2 hours of Tropea by road, ranked by outside recognition. Tropea itself and the other famous places are left out. 6 towns match, and all of them are below.
Instead of Tropea
Tropea · 5,833 residents · Calabria
- Fiumefreddo BruzioCosenza
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Tropea
- 1h 44m by car
- Residents
- 2,839
- When to go
- May–Sep
- PargheliaVibo Valentia
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Tropea
- 13m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 1,274
- When to go
- May–Sep
- ScillaReggio di Calabria
Coastal town · Parco Nazionale
- From Tropea
- 1h 39m by car
- Residents
- 4,513
- When to go
- May–Sep
- SoveratoCatanzaro
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Tropea
- 1h 37m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,618
- When to go
- May–Sep
- PizzoVibo Valentia
Coastal town · Parco Regionale
- From Tropea
- 35m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,766
- When to go
- May–Sep
The 5 best-recognised of the 6 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Tropea. More of them follow below.
Fiumefreddo Bruzio
Province: Cosenza · 220 m
A Tyrrhenian hill town under Monte Cocuzzo, with a thirteenth-century castle frescoed in the 1990s.
Parghelia
Province: Vibo Valentia · 70 m
A 1,300-person village on the Costa degli Dei at 70 meters, four kilometers from Tropea and quieter than its famous neighbour.
Scilla
Province: Reggio di Calabria · 91 m
Homer's sea-monster headland on the Costa Viola, the Castello Ruffo on the cliff above Chianalea and the swordfish boats working the Strait below.
Soverato
Province: Catanzaro · 10 m
The wealthiest town per capita in Calabria, built around a white-sand stretch on the Ionian shore.
Pizzo
Province: Vibo Valentia · 44 m
A tuff-cliff town over the Gulf of Sant'Eufemia, where a king was shot in 1815 and the tartufo gelato was invented a century later.
Bagnara Calabra
Province: Reggio di Calabria · 50 m
A swordfish town on the Costa Viola where boats with lookout masts still hunt the Strait, and the IGP torrone has been made by hand since the eighteenth century.
Drive times measured by road from Tropea. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.