Italy Guide
Basilicata and Calabria
Rossano
Down the coast, the resort of ROSSANO SCALO has far outstripped its parent-town of ROSSANO in terms of size and bustle, and most of the holiday-makers who frequent its beaches never even get round to visiting the hilltop town, 7km up an awkward winding road – something that has helped to preserve the old centre from excessive development. The foremost Byzantine centre in the south, Rossano was the focus of a veritable renaissance of literature, theology and art between the eighth and eleventh centuries, a period to which the town's greatest treasures belong.