A city among the oldest in Calabria, Cosenza remains an important meeting point between art and culture. What are four good reasons that can bring the visitor to Cosenza in the footsteps of the English writer George Gissing who wrote: “Cosenza has interests and wonders that they give the temptation to turn it all day.”

1) Climb the Pancrazio Hill (one of the seven on which the city is built) to admire the imposing Castello Svevo, majestic stronghold of Frederick II of Swabia, partially destroyed by an earthquake at the beginning of the seventeenth century and then again between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Castle we embrace a wide view of the Cosenza basin and the buttresses of the Sila;

2) Visit the Duomo, dedicated to the Virgin SS of the Pelerio. Built around the middle of the eleventh century, more architectural styles are recognizable in it. Initially built in Romanesque style and subsequently renovated on the façade, according to Cistercian criteria, the building was then covered with Baroque superstructures and finally assumed a Gothic connotation in the early nineteenth century. ;

3) Admire the works on display in the National Gallery of Palazzo Arnone, from the beginning of the 16th century, including the original icon of the Madonna del Pelerio protector of Cosenza and the Stauroteca, a reliquary cross donated by Frederick II to the city on the occasion of the reconsecration of the cathedral;

4) < em> Stroll through Corso Mazzini, a pedestrian area that houses an art gallery “en plein air”, the Open-Air Museum (MAB - Open Air Museum) Bilotti). It is a series of works by famous artists donated to the city by the collector Carlo Bilotti. The route allows you to admire realizations by world-famous sculptors, including Emilio Greco, Salvador Dalì, Giorgio De Chirico and Giacomo Manzù.