Rocca di Neto → Strongoli

Stage information

Difficulty: moderate. Difficulty recorded in the catalogue.

21 km from Rocca di Neto to Strongoli through vines, olive trees and wheat. Strongoli is the ancient Petelia, on a hill called the terrace over the Ionian for its view of the whole Crotone coast. Its medieval centre keeps the bastions and walls built against Saracen raids, and a castle that Gioacchino Murat restored after the 1783 earthquake. Down in its countryside the Neto reaches the sea, in a protected river mouth park.