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A wide pebble beach on the Reggio Calabria waterfront with a single palm tree, the Strait of Messina beyond it and the Sicilian coast under tall cloud.

Where to stay in Reggio Calabria

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Places to stay in Reggio Calabria

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About Reggio Calabria

Reggio Calabria has no limited-traffic zone, one parking rate across the city and a car ferry to Sicily that leaves from Villa San Giovanni, about 14 km north of the centre.

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Facts and rules

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Airport
Reggio Calabria "Tito Minniti" (REG), run by SACAL, about 6 km by road from the centre. The car hire offices are at the exit of the airport area, about 250 m from the terminal, with their car parks beside them. Source
Airport parking
Two car parks, Centrale and Pineta, with 180 spaces between them, open 24 hours every day. Kiss and Fly on the external road is free for 10 minutes; the Central car park is EUR 1.50 for an hour, EUR 3.00 for two, EUR 11.00 for the first day and EUR 4.00 for each day beyond the seventh. Pineta is subscription only at EUR 77.50 a month. Source
Tourist tax
Per person per night: EUR 1.00 in campsites, B&Bs, case vacanze, affittacamere, case per ferie, hostels, holiday flats and hotels up to two stars; EUR 1.50 in residenze turistiche alberghiere and agriturismi; EUR 2.00 in three-star hotels; EUR 2.50 in four-star hotels. Rates set by Giunta resolution 2 of 8 January 2016 and in force since 1 May 2016. Source
Night cap
The regulation charges the tax "fino ad un massimo di cinque pernottamenti consecutivi nell'anno solare purché effettuati nella medesima struttura ricettiva": at most five consecutive nights in the calendar year, spent in the same property. Short lets under DL 50/2017 are inside the tax. Source
Tax exemptions
Children under 14; minor children from the second onward staying with their parents in June, July and August; day-hospital patients and one carer per in-patient; forces on public order duty; every coach driver on duty; one tour escort per 20 participants; accommodation staff; people with 100 percent invalidity and one companion each; emergency and humanitarian lodging; volunteers in emergencies. Source
Licensed stays
Every hotel, B&B and short-let flat has a national identification code (CIN), shown outside the building and in every listing. The comune's tourist-tax portal asks hosts for the national or regional code before they register. Source
Check-in
Hosts may accept only guests with an identity document or passport, and register each guest with the police within 24 hours. Source
No limited-traffic zone
Giunta resolution 151 of 29 July 2022 set up ZTLs in some city streets and ordinance 438 of 2 August 2022 ran them from 8 August 2022; Giunta resolution 153 of 8 August 2022 revoked resolution 151, and nothing on ZTLs has been published since. Source
Parking with a rental car
ATAM runs the blue bays for the comune. EUR 1.00 an hour everywhere, divisible to 15 minutes, 07:30 to 19:30 except Sundays and holidays; on Lungomare Falcomata every working day 07:30 to 21:30, and to midnight from 1 July to 15 September. Subscriptions on the ATAM app: EUR 20.00 for seven days, EUR 75.00 a month, EUR 500.00 a year. Source
Car ferry to Sicily
Bluferries carries cars across the Strait from Villa San Giovanni, about 14 km north of the centre. From 14 September 2026 cars, motorbikes and campers board only for Tremestieri, hourly day and night at 45 minutes past. A car crossing is EUR 35.00 at the ticket office and EUR 31.50 online. Source
Monthly stays
Up to 30 days a flat is a short let. A home lease of more than 30 days in a year must be registered with the Agenzia delle Entrate within 30 days. Source
Schengen entry
Visitors from outside the EU, including UK and US citizens, may stay 90 days in any 180 across the Schengen area. The EU Entry/Exit System has been fully operational since 10 April 2026. Source
Currency
Euro (EUR). Source
Emergency number
112 Source

Areas of Reggio Calabria

Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi in Reggio Calabria, a straight shopping street of cream buildings with green shutters and iron balconies, with a few parked cars and people walking.
Photo: Benjamin Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Corso Garibaldi and the centre

The long shopping street that runs the length of the centre a block back from the sea, with most of the shops along it. It suits a first visit on foot.

Tito Minniti airport by road
about 5.7 km
Reggio Calabria Centrale station
about 1.2 km
Lungomare Falcomata
under 1 km

Car and parking

Blue bays in Zona A, B or C at EUR 1.00 an hour, 07:30 to 19:30 except Sundays and holidays. There is no limited-traffic zone: the 2022 one was revoked a week after it started, so a car can reach the door and then has to find a bay.

Beach clubs with white marquees on the shore below Reggio Calabria's Lungomare Falcomata, with the bay curving north towards low hills.
Photographed in 2017. Photo: Jacopo Werther, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lungomare Falcomata

The seafront promenade with the Arena dello Stretto, the beach clubs and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, looking straight across at the Sicilian coast.

Tito Minniti airport by road
about 5.6 km
Reggio Calabria Centrale station
about 1.6 km
Corso Garibaldi
under 1 km

Car and parking

This is the one stretch where the bays are paid every working day from 07:30 to 21:30, and to midnight from 1 July to 15 September. Residents' permits and the special worker subscriptions do not cover it, so everyone pays EUR 1.00 an hour.

The long low concrete front of Reggio Calabria Centrale station, with its name in gold lettering, a zebra crossing, parked cars and a white taxi outside.
Photo: Simon Legner (User:simon04), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Around Reggio Calabria Centrale

The southern end of the centre by the main station, where the airport buses and the long-distance coaches stop. It suits arrivals by train and anyone pairing a short city stay with a drive.

Tito Minniti airport by road
about 3.9 km
Reggio Calabria Centrale station
under 1 km
Villa San Giovanni ferry port
about 15.5 km

Car and parking

Blue bays at EUR 1.00 an hour on the city hours, 07:30 to 19:30 except Sundays and holidays, and the ATAM monthly subscription at EUR 75.00 covers them with no time limit.

Ravagnese and the airport

The southern district beside the runway, for an early flight or a late landing rather than for a holiday.

Tito Minniti airport by road
about 1.3 km
Reggio Calabria Centrale station
about 2.9 km
Villa San Giovanni ferry port
about 19 km

Car and parking

The airport car parks hold 180 cars, with 10 free minutes of Kiss and Fly on the external road, EUR 11.00 for the first day and EUR 4.00 a day beyond the seventh; plate-reading gates record every transit on the airport roads. The hire offices are about 250 m from the terminal.

Shallow clear water off the beach at Catona north of Reggio Calabria, with bathers, parasols along the shore and the Sicilian coast across the Strait.
Photo: MauveLynx, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Gallico and Catona

The northern seaside districts on the road to Villa San Giovanni and the Costa Viola, with their own beaches and a far shorter drive to the Sicily ferry than the centre has.

Tito Minniti airport by road
about 15 km
Reggio Calabria Centrale station
about 11 km
Villa San Giovanni ferry port
about 4.3 km

Car and parking

Outside the paid-parking zones, which cover the centre and the Lungomare only. Catona is about 4 km from the Villa San Giovanni ferry ramps, which matters on a day trip to Sicily.

Guides

Questions

How much is the tourist tax in Reggio Calabria?

Per person per night: EUR 1.00 in campsites, B&Bs, holiday houses and flats, affittacamere, case per ferie, hostels and hotels up to two stars, EUR 1.50 in residenze turistiche alberghiere and agriturismi, EUR 2.00 in three-star hotels and EUR 2.50 in four-star hotels. The regulation caps it at five consecutive nights in the calendar year in the same property.

Does Reggio Calabria have a ZTL?

No. Giunta resolution 151 of 29 July 2022 set up limited-traffic zones and ordinance 438 of 2 August 2022 ran them from 8 August 2022, but Giunta resolution 153 of 8 August 2022 revoked the measure, and the comune has published nothing on ZTLs since.

Where do cars cross to Sicily?

From Villa San Giovanni, about 14 km north of the centre. Bluferries states that from 14 September 2026 cars, motorbikes and campers board only for Tremestieri, with departures every hour day and night at 45 minutes past.

What does street parking cost in Reggio Calabria?

EUR 1.00 an hour everywhere, divisible to 15 minutes, from 07:30 to 19:30 except Sundays and holidays. On Lungomare Falcomata the bays are paid every working day from 07:30 to 21:30, and to midnight from 1 July to 15 September.