Reggio Calabria[dead link] is a city in Calabria on the toe of Italy.
It's a ferry port for the short crossing to Messina in Sicily. It's of great antiquity, being part of the Hellenistic region of Magna Grecia, but there's little of that to see nowadays.
The city has suffered repeated earthquakes, and was pulverised by the terrible quake and tsunami of 1908.
Then came heavy Allied bombing in the Second World War. After the war the city suffered from economic slump and organised crime: 'Ndrangheta (organized crime) are believed still to exert a strong grip over local authority and businesses.
There are long-held plans to build a bridge from here to Sicily, but preparatory work was cancelled in 2013.
Local buses mostly all run to Piazza Garibaldi, in front of Stazione Centrale. The bus company is