The Cattolica of Stilo sits on a terrace of Mount Consolino like an intact Byzantine jewel: five little brick domes, frescoes and an air of a Calabrian Athos that make it the symbol of Greek monasticism in Italy. Below, the village was the 1568 birthplace of Tommaso Campanella, philosopher of "The City of the Sun", remembered everywhere.
Lanes, granite portals and the cathedral with its fourteenth-century doorway compose one of Italy's most beautiful villages. The Stilaro valley, with historic ironworks and the Marmarico falls — among the South's highest — adds nature to theology.
Near Stilo
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
