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Extract from the Pizzo Travel Guides:
Following the railway or the SS18, you might want to spend some time in the picturesque little town of
PIZZO
, neatly placed for the
beaches
around Tropea and site of a small
castle
(daily: summer 9am-1pm & 5-10pm, winter 9am-1pm & 3-7pm; free) overlooking the sea just off the main Piazza della Repubblica. Built in 1486 by Ferdinand I of Aragon, it holds the room in which the French general
Murat
was imprisoned, with some of his personal effects and copies of the last letters he wrote, and the terrace where he was shot in October 1815. Murat, Napoleon's brother-in-law and... read the whole Pizzo Travel Guides...
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