Car hire Calabria

With a rental car from Avis, Hertz, Budget, Europcar, Thrifty or National you can enjoy the best of southern Italy’s Calabria at your own pace, one small town at a time. Car hire is by far and away the best way to get around this rural area. Besides the stunning natural vistas, there is a full share of traditional Italian townships worth exploring. A comparator website is the best solution to find the right car and price in advance from these various companies.

Daytripping by car

Calabria dreamily blends hundreds of kilometres of beautiful coastline with a wild hinterland full of soaring mountains of the Pollino chain in the North of the area. Enjoy the cliff at Tropea, Pollino National Park and La Sila National Park for starters. Poet Gabriele D’Annunzio wrote that the coast near Reggio Calabria facing Sicily was “the most beautiful kilometre in Italy”. The best attraction is lovely Praia a Mare town on Italy’s Citrus Coast, which is full of beauty and history.

Discovering Calabria

Situated in the deep south of the Italian peninsula’s in the “toe” of the country’s “boot” near Sicily, Tropea, in Calabria, is the gateway to a land of drop-dead gorgeous scenery. It is sometimes called Italy’s best kept secret. This is a magnificent land of sandy beaches, breathtaking landscapes and rural splendor. Charming towns crown hillsides while Byzantine churches and ancient Greek temples pepper the hinterland. The hottest attractions are the area’s rugged cliffs and sandy beaches. In the South rise the Serre and Aspromonte chains and the Sila forested plateau. The short rivers racing from mountains, called fiumare, run dry for much of the year.

When to go

Blessed with a mild Mediterranean climate, Calabria has hot, dry, humidity-free summers when you won’t have to worry about packing along a jumper for the day, and cool but still largely pleasant and a bit rainy winters. Spring and autumns avoid the extremes of hot and cold and are ideal times for exploring Calabria. In general though the climate is temperate enough to make it enjoyable travelling in the region, no matter what time of year it is.
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Driving rentals in Italy

Throughout Italy, drivers stick to the right side of the road. Do make a point of having on hand an International Drivers’ Permit. Also bring your driver’s license from your home country or some other form of photo identification. You need to be at least 21 to hire a vehicle in Italy.