Capo Vaticano is an extensive coastal resort town of Ricadi (VV), many facilities are often equipped with the services of animation. The promontory that assume the name reaches the maximum height of 124 meters and is made of a special granite, white-gray, studied worldwide for its geological peculiarities.


Of great importance is the presence of giant fern, dwarf palm on the rock "The Diver" and the existence of marine sediments of Quaternary, which makes Cape Vaticano a must for many scholars of Paleontology.


Shells typical of tropical seas, shark teeth, coral, is accompanied by a skeletal finds parts of continental and marine mammals. The entire area is famous for its abundance of Clipeastri, old echinidi the characteristic pyramid shape now extinct.


The promontory of Capo Vaticano is located on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, in front of the Stromboli and the Aeolian Islands, separates the Gulf of St and in Gioia Tauro, and includes the coastal area from the bay to the tone of the bay of Santa Maria and the latest extension of Mount Poro. On the promontory is installed since 1870 by a lighthouse tower cylindrical building on a floor with a roof terrace.


The most picturesque bay is to Grotticelle, formed by three adjacent beaches. According to a French magazine, Head Vatican is considered the third most beautiful beach of Italy and among the 100 most beautiful beaches in the world.


Capo Vaticano is also known as the best territory to the world that produces the red onion, also called red Tropea onion, taste particularly sweet. Indeed, thanks to substances in the soil "only one cultivated in Cape Vatican is sweet" and is very elegant in the domestic market and internationally.


Moreover, the picturesque beaches and crystalline sea bottom with rich fish, make Cape Vaticano goal must for divers and Italian and foreign tourists, first of all Germans, attracted also by a hinterland that offers local products such as the 'Nduja of Spilinga Pecorino and the Poro.