Voted Italy's most beautiful village in 2021, Tropea stands on a sandstone cliff with houses ending where the drop begins: below, a white beach and a sea that holds its own against the tropics. Out front, on its rock, the sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Isola serves as the logo of the Coast of the Gods.
Tropea's red onion is the town's other monument — sweet enough to end up in gelato, which you try here as a matter of record. In summer, the Aeolian Islands are an hour away by boat; Capo Vaticano and its coves, twenty minutes.
Near Tropea
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
