Petilia Policastro → Mesoraca

Stage information

Difficulty: easy. Difficulty recorded in the catalogue.

9 km from Petilia Policastro to Mesoraca, the shortest stage, so take it slowly. The landscape is the same as the day before: olive groves as far as you can see and wooded hills. Mesoraca traces its roots to the Oenotrians and had a castle held to be impregnable. Visit the Santuario dell'Ecce Homo, with its 17th-century wooden statue attributed to Fra Umile da Petralia, and the Chiesa del Ritiro with nine altars in Carrara marble.