In this edition
No dispatches in today's edition.
Recent headlines from this bureau
- Italy braces for third heatwave as temperatures threaten southern regions
- Calabria keeps Cuban doctors despite US pressure to end program
- Northern Italy's water crisis threatens farming as reserves deplete
- Pope marks US independence day with migrant prayer in Lampedusa
- Calabria defies US pressure on Cuban medical staff
- Pope appeals for migrant protection as he visits Mediterranean gateway
- Record heat returns to Italy as summer drought threatens southern agriculture
- Pope Leo marks July 4 on migration island, challenges West on compassion
Geography & climate
Hot Mediterranean coasts, cool mountainous interior.
A long mountainous peninsula between two seas — the Sila and Aspromonte massifs, two coasts.
Economy & culture
Agriculture (citrus, bergamot), tourism, ports (Gioia Tauro), remittance-shaped economy.
Magna Graecia and Byzantine roots, Albanian and Greek minorities, the weight of the 'Ndrangheta and of emigration.