Palmi - the second largest city in the province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria has a population of about 20 thousand people. It is located on the slopes of Monte Sant Elia (582 meters), facing the coast of the Costa Viola. Not far from the center of Palmi Taureana is a small village - a picturesque tourist resort, wormed his way between the sea and the mountain peaks. Its territory with beaches, cliffs and terraces fully a part of the Costa Viola, that stretches to Punta Pezzo.

Palmi itself with its beaches of Marina di Palma and the Lido di Palmi is also considered a popular and rapidly developing beach resort. Stunning beauty of these places has attracted poets and writers here, even at the state level is recognized and protected by the relevant decision. Besides the fact that Palmi is the administrative center of the province and its main educational center of the Tyrrhenian coast, it is also an important agricultural and commercial center. For centuries, the city remained one of the most important cultural places in Calabria, where the famous composer born Francesco Cilea and writer Leonid Repachi. Here are the museum complex "Casa della Culture" and "Archaeological Park Tauriani", lying on the ruins of the ancient city Taurianum.

It Taurianuma residents, and fugitives from Saracen attacks in the 10th century founded by palm trees. In 1549, the year the city was severely damaged during the next pirate raid, and then on the orders of Count Carlo Spinelli was rebuilt and fortified. But in 1783, the year of Palma with its thick walls, the three main gate and the building was virtually razed to the ground as a result of the terrible earthquake. It was rebuilt again and again lost - destructive earthquakes have occurred as early as 1894 m and 1908 m respectively. One of the buildings that survived the cataclysm, a one-nave church of Chiesa del Krochifisso with a rectangular apse. After the earthquake of 1908 it was repaired and connected to the nearby monastery with cloister. It is interesting that recently in this church, under the main altar, was found burial chambers of the monks with the ancient stone seats.

Another attraction Palmi is a so-called "Olive Rock" near the beach Marinella - it is a lonely cliff rising on the top of olive trees. In addition, the city can visit the Museum of Ethnology and Folklore of Calabria, located in the House of Culture. Leonida Repachi. It houses a rich collection of objects of everyday life of local residents, costumes and instruments of labor, which is new to the world of shepherds and peasants of Calabria, their religious beliefs, traditions and way of life. In the Hall Antiques exhibits dating from the 5th century BC -11 Th century AD Here are the Museum and Art Gallery Francesco Cilea with the works of the greatest Italian artists. On Piazza Matteotti War Memorial is made of marble and bronze by sculptor Michele Guerrizi. Completed his mausoleum is decorated with bas-reliefs by Francesco Cilea.

In the vicinity of Palmi also noteworthy farmhouses of the 18th century, the ruins of a watchtower of the 16th century, the small town of Monte Sant Elia with a pine forest. 7 km from the center of Palma begins the Tyrrhenian coast. And not far from the beach in Lido di Palma is the same archaeological park with the ruins of the ancient city Taurianum.