Spighe Verdi
Spighe Verdi in Calabria
5 towns
Calabria holds 5 Spighe Verdi sites inside our catalogue. All sit in the province of Cosenza.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Roseto Capo Spulico, Montegiordano, and Trebisacce. 2 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Roseto Capo Spulico
Province: Cosenza · 217 m
A Frederician castle on a rock above the Ionian, a former Sybaris satellite city founded in the seventh century BC, Templar legend included.
Montegiordano
Province: Cosenza · 619 m
A 619-meter Alto Jonio hill town with a Pignone del Carretto hunting castle and more than two hundred murals across its centro storico.
Trebisacce
Province: Cosenza · 73 m
A Bronze Age plateau above the Ionian Gulf of Taranto whose name comes from the Greek for small table, with a Byzantine mother church below.
Cariati
Province: Cosenza · 76 m
A walled Ionian fishing town on the Saracen Coast, its kilometer of medieval ramparts and eight towers among the most intact in southern Italy.
Villapiana
Province: Cosenza · 206 m
An Ionian commune on the edge of the Sibari plain, dorato sand at the Lido and Pollino peaks rising twenty kilometers inland.
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