Città dell'Olio
Città dell'Olio in Calabria
4 towns
Calabria has 4 Città dell'Olio communes in our index. They are in the Cosenza and Reggio Calabria provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Corigliano-Rossano, Saracena, and Altomonte. 1 more town carries the mark alongside them.
The towns
Corigliano-Rossano
Province: Cosenza · 219 m
The Sibari plain city merged in 2018 from two older towns, one built around a Norman castle and the other around a Byzantine manuscript tradition.
Saracena
Province: Cosenza · 606 m
A 606-meter Pollino borgo named for the Saracens said to have settled it around 900 AD, and protected by Slow Food for a passito Moscato traced to the sixteenth century.
Altomonte
Province: Cosenza · 455 m
A hill town in the Esaro valley built around the highest Gothic-Angevin church in Calabria.
Gerace
Province: Reggio Calabria · 470 m
A 470-meter conglomerate rock above the Locride, holding Calabria's largest cathedral.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Benevento
Province: Benevento
Sannio capital at the Calore-Sabato confluence, with a 114 AD Trajan arch and a Lombard rotunda on the UNESCO list.
Bormio
Province: Sondrio
An Alpine spa town at 1,225 meters where three high passes meet and Roman thermal water has fed the baths for two thousand years.
Fornelli
Province: Isernia
A walled medieval borgo at 530 meters with seven towers and the birthplace of Nancy Pelosi's mother, eight kilometers west of Isernia.
Marsala
Province: Trapani
Sicily's westernmost city, born from the Phoenician refugees of Mozia, where Garibaldi landed in 1860 and English merchants invented Marsala wine.
Monte Rinaldo
Province: Fermo
A 308-resident village on a 478-meter ridge of the Aso valley in the Marche interior, anchored by a 1st-century BC Roman sanctuary, the largest pre-imperial sanctuary excavated in the central Adriatic.