How to Get Around Gerace

Gerace is walkable and steep, and getting to it needs a car.

The town is small enough to cross in fifteen minutes, but it climbs continuously and the lanes are cobbled, stepped and narrow. Cars are kept to the edges.

Parking is below the town, and the walk up is part of the arrival.

There is no station. The Ionian coastal line runs through Locri, about ten kilometres away, and is slow.

Buses connect Gerace to Locri and the coast, but they are built around school and work hours and are of little use for a day visit.

A car is effectively required, both to reach the town and for Locri, the coast and the Aspromonte.

Roads in the Locride are adequate on the coast and slow inland, and can be closed after heavy rain when the fiumare run.

How easily, and at what cost, can you combine the region’s main destinations?

Cost compares the options for each route rather than quoting a fare: inexpensive means the price is not a factor in planning, moderate cost means a real line in the budget, and the expensive option is one worth weighing against the alternative. Fares change from year to year; the ranking between them does not.