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Extract from the Reggio di Calabria Travel Guides:
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
, the provincial capital, was one of the first ancient Greek settlements on the Italian mainland, and today, with a population of over 180,000, is the town in the region that shows most evidence of urban decline - an untidy mix of heavy industry, slum housing, and pot-holed streets. Traces of elegance survive, not least in the superb seafront that faces Messina across the Straits, while its main street, Corso Garibaldi, stretching for two kilometres across the centre of town, has one of the most animated passeggiatas in Calabria. But the absence of any buildings of historical note testifies to the violence of the earthquake...
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