HOTEL GAUDIO

 Structure

Open all year, located at the edge of the SS18, in a panoramic position and close to the sea,
The management is entrusted with the exquisite kindness and availability of the Gaudio Family members and the professionalism of the staff, all aware that they are providers of a very important service: good reception, because the guest is always welcome and must "feel good".
In the back part of the main façade of the Hotel Gaudio, the available spaces are wide, with porches and gardens with pines, palm trees, olive trees, olive groves, pitosphorus hedges, geraniums and bouganwille, adaptable to every need of guests to practice: aerobics, soccer , solarium, board games, dance and movie projection.

Distance from the sea

The private beach of Hotel Gaudio, with sand and pebble beach, is 250 meters away, and is easily reached by crossing the SS18 tunnel.

Rooms

The hotel has rooms equipped with every comfort hotel: color TV, minibar, climate, telephone, hairdryer

Services

Reception 24 hours, Restaurant, Bar, Meeting lounge and congress hall, Swimming pool, Private beach, Internet station, Tobacco, Phonebook, Newsstand, Credit Cards, Extra Bus Bus Stop (lines: Paola, Cosenza, North Italy). Ample Parking, Organized Excursions to discover the COSTA DEI ANTICHI BORGHI and the many tourist attractions of Calabria. Car rent*

Nearby amenities (within 500m)

Pharmacy, Post Office, Medical Doctors (also dentist), Food and Dining Shops, Church, FFSS Station

Gastronomy

The Hotel Gaudio's Catering, personalized by Mario Chef, one of the members of the Gaudio Family, is tasty and creative, but always without excess.
It is mainly focused on typical regional recipes, mainly using local ingredients, vegetables, pork and beef, fresh fish and local dairy products. Some of its dishes are now famous: Pasta made in the House with the Alici, Fave's "Corchie" (pods), but also the Linguines of the Fisherman and Risotto of the Coast of the Ancient Villages.
Sausage delicacies are almost all of their own produce and dairy products come from cattle and sheep farms located on the heights of the Paolana Coastline.
The sweets? For gourmets, for example, we invite you to taste the "Chocolate Tortilla"

Pool

The pool, which can only be accessed by guests of the Gaudio Hotel, is located in the back part of the hotel, accessible from rooms and suites.
Wide and surrounded by the greenery of a tall hedge of thuia (dwarf pine) and meadow, it is furnished with umbrellas and chairs or deckchairs / sundecks

Outdoor activities

The Gaudio Hotel is located in the heart of the Coast of the Ancient Boroughs - South Tyrrhenian Cosentino - which in turn is located in the heart of Calabria and also the farthest tourist destinations, can be reached in less than 2 hours of travel.
Full day excursions
Santa Severina, Sibari, Altomonte, Civita, Reggio Calabria / Bronze of Riace and Scilla, Gerace, Locri Epizephiry.
Half day excursions
Amantea Historical Center, Amantea Sunday Market, Serra d'Aiello / Antiquarium Bruzio, Underground / Byzantine frescoes of the IX century, Paola Sanctuary of San Francesco, Fiumefreddo Bruzio the Castle of the Valley and the works of Salvatore Fiume, Belmonte Calabro Museum of Peasant History and Mausoleum by Michele Bianchi.
Nature trekking
From the mountain paths traced by the CAI, to the stream of the source of the North, flowing in the territory of Belmonte Calabro, the walks that can be done are very numerous.
Horse trekking
From May to October, it is possible to organize trekking on horseback for 3 days, along the valleys of the Paolana Coastline.
For painting lovers
The Coast of the Ancient Villages, every season of the year, for its colors and landscapes, is a constant inspiration for those who love painting bucolic scenes, or simply landscaping.
For mountain bike lovers
From the spring to the late fall, enthusiasts of mountain biking tours in the Coast of the Ancient Villages alternate with a landscape that includes medieval villages, pine and oak forests, pure water springs, refreshment areas, almost always with the view of the sea, they will find a real paradise.

Animal Friends

Not allowed

Conditions

Check in: from 13:00 onwards
Check out: before 10:00

Longobardi Marina and surroundings

The coast of ancient villages
Longobards along with other municipalities, is a component of that area that is emerging as The Coast of the Ancient Villages, otherwise known as the South Tyrrhenian Cosentino. A short distance from Lamezia Airport (30 minutes by car), which is the sum of a spectacular landscape, consisting of the combination of sea, mountains, pine forests and ancient villages where, still today, rites and traditions that elsewhere are just a reminder. The coastal communes are Amantea, Belmonte Calabro, Longobardi, Fiumefreddo Bruzio, Falconara Albanese and San Lucido, while the communes in the hinterland are Lago, Cleto, San Pietro in Amantea, Aiello and Serra d'Aiello.
In addition to the spectacular nature of the landscape, precisely because of the combination of sea and mountains, as well as the undisturbed beauty of medieval villages, one of the features that make the Costa dei Borghi Antichi a tourist destination throughout the year and not only for summer bathing , is the microclimate. In practice it is always spring and winter in this place, it is certainly better than wintering between smog, traffic and the number plates.
Longobardi
former farmhouse of Fiumefreddo B. is a small village on the hill, from which you can enjoy a spectacular view of Stromboli. On the surrounding hills, besides a pine forest equipped for walks and picnics, for lovers, it is also possible to take long horseback rides, among centuries-old pines and ferns. In the village you can visit the House of Culture, the Mother Church and the house of Blessed Nicola
Belmonte Calabro
located on a rocky promontory overlooking the sea, is a medieval village whose construction around its castle began in the Angevin era, around 1270. The urban system is still perfectly intact and is characterized by lanes and staircases, from some noble palaces and from the panoramic view overlooking the hill dedicated to the monument of Michele Bianchi. Of great interest are the ruins of the castle, today a municipal library, where Galeazzo di Tarsia composed its poetic verses and the small Museum of Farming. Belmonte C. is the home of the giant tomato, the only tomato with a deco label.

Amantea
is the most important trade center in the whole area. With its 13,000 inhabitants, it is also the most populous town on the Coast of the Ancient Villages. On the surrounding hills, overlooked by the ruins of the castle destroyed by the French in 1806, the ancient village of picturesque appearance is an attraction for many visitors, also for the numerous workshops of artists (painters and sculptors) that are settled there. To visit the monumental monastery of San Bernardino, where are also conserved works by Bernini and Cagini, the Palace of the Clarisse, where a unique pinacoteca of its kind is exposed: over 100 works, all fake of the author. Of great interest in folklore, the Sunday Market, unique in its kind, because sellers are not walking, but the peasants who wear on the benches are the fruit of their work. Large-scale signatures are banned.
Fiumefreddo Bruzio
is the most evocative medieval village of the entire Coast of the Ancient Villages. He is included in the club of the most beautiful villages in Italy. The churches, the two ancient restored convents, the noble palaces and the overlooking the sea of ​​Piazzale della Torretta, the alleys, are the points of great tourist attraction. Not far from the village is the Castello della Valle, built by Roberto il Guiscardo around 1050, now partially restored, after being destroyed by the cannonists of French general Renyer in 1806. The Castle of Della Valle, since 2007, is also Monument to All the wars. In the Castle Desire Room, some of the works that Salvatore Fiume devoted to the town have been admired after having been stunned in 1974. Other artworks are admirable in the Church of San Rocco, adjacent to the Door of the Sea. Falconara Albanese, the village of "ghegghi" is located in a half-hillside location, sheltered.

San Lucido
among the countries of the Coast of the Ancient Villages is the only one that boasts the ancient village directly overlooking the sea and, in fact, fishing lives, in addition to commercial services. It is the country that gave birth to Cardinal Ruffo, and it is the seaport that in 1536 was destroyed by a rocket caused by the saracen pirate Karadin, also called "Il Barbarossa".
St. Peter in Amantea
is a small village in the hinterland, whose main square is characterized by a monumental fountain located beneath the fringes of a secular oak. In its surrounding forests are harvested fine mushrooms and cultivated land, vines of "Magliocco" and "Marcigliano", "Merlot" and "Cabernet", producing high quality wines.
Lake
in the area of ​​the Coast of the Ancient Villages, is the mountain village, although it is very close to the sea. It is surrounded by thick woods, where you can enjoy healthy and comfortable walks in the spring and in the fall you can pick precious mushrooms and chestnuts. Famous Lake pizzas and just as famous are the capicollo and the suppressed ones.
Aiello
boasts the most beautiful eighteenth-century square of the Coast of the Ancient Villages, where it shows beautifully the prestigious Palazzo di Cibo Malaspina, a clone of that building that exists in Massa Carrara. It was the town of notaries and lawyers, it was the fortress guarded by the road that led from the sea to the ancient Pandosia, now Cosenza. It is the country that gave birth to 2 popes, 8 cardinals and dozens of bishops.
Serra d'Aiello
is a microscopic and sunny hilly village where recently excavations have brought to light precious and important archaeological finds of an indigenous civilization, therefore Greek and not Roman, all kept in the Antiquarium museum, guided and managed by Franco Frojo.
Cleto
is perched on top of Monte Sant'Angelo, with its almost completed restoration castle, dominates the entire Savuto Valley, also known as the Valley of Silence. In this valley there are about 130,000 olive trees planted on the 700,000 plants surveyed by an appropriate office in the whole of the coast of the Tyrrhenian Cosentino. They produce about 20,000 quintals of extra virgin olive oil every year.