Myths and legends embrace Reggio Calabria:
“Where Apsia, the most sacred of the river, throws itself into
the sea, you’ll find a woman joined with a man; there found a city
because the God is giving you the land of Ausonia”. Following
these words of the Delphi oracle, a group of calcidians ventured
into the Ionian sea, and when, on the Calabrian coast, they saw a
grapevine intertwined with a wild fig, they understood that was
where they had to stop. This is the legend that wants Reggio
Calabria founded by them, about 3000 years ago. The choice of this
strip of land for the construction of the beautiful Rhegion (its
ancient name), was due to the need of having a good sea base, that
together with Zancle, the actual Messina, could allow a total
control over the strait, which was the commercial transit key for
the greeks over the Tyrrhenian. Reghion is therefore built and made
an autonomous centre. Through the centuries it had various
dominations, but also many natural disasters. The first earthquakes
that shocked the population and the territory go back to 1783. in
the 1800’s Reggio was mainly rebuilt, dedicating its main road with
its new neo-classical public and private buildings to Giuseppe
Garibaldi.
After just over a century (on the 28th December of 1908), another
earthquake that also provoked a seaquake destroyed the whole city.
It was then necessary to build it all again, task that was given to
the engineer Pietro de Nava. The city was again born more beautiful
and alive, always growing in time with the joining of the
surrounding districts.
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| View of Reggio’s Promenade |
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| Promenade of Lido train station |
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| Change area in HOSPITALITY |
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