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Gerace, in brief.

Norman cathedral, medieval eagle-nest borgo.

A medieval borgo perched like an eagle's nest above the Ionian plain, its lanes opening onto Calabria's largest Romanesque cathedral.

Consecrated under the Normans in 1045, it rests on a forest of ancient columns.

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Gerace Cathedral's Norman towers above the old town's roofs

Gerace Cathedral

Calabria’s largest church, a Byzantine-Norman basilica built with columns from ancient Locri.

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