Hi SanGI am new to this forum but was very interested to see that you have done an enormous amount of research and have ended up in western Calabria. I too have spent a good deal of the past ten years researching Cyprus, South of France and now Italy, learning valuable, and sometimes costly, lessons along the way, and it has been an interesting and exciting as well as at times heartbreaking adventure! I have just spent a week at Capo Vaticano and have taken to the area. I am now scouring forums and estate agents listings and doing my research. May I take the liberty of asking where you have ended up. I have a contact now in San Lucido which looks very nice and Longobardi being quieter appeals to me. Are you anywhere near that neighbourhood? I saw a report about the cleanliness of Italy's beaches on another thread and was a bit disappointed to see that Calabria ranked amongst the lowest provinces. From what I can see the water is pretty universally crystalline and unpolluted - apart from Naples.I would really like to have a property in a centro storico with a terrace overlooking the sea and surrounded by ½ûÂþÌìÌÃs.  Do you, from experience, have recommendations as to agents that specialise in older properties and contacts with good builders / suppliers.I would be very grateful for any info you can give.Kind regardsGiulia
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Hi SanGI am new to this forum but was very interested to see that you have done an enormous amount of research and have ended up in western Calabria. I too have spent a good deal of the past ten years researching Cyprus, South of France and now Italy, learning valuable, and sometimes costly, lessons along the way, and it has been an interesting and exciting as well as at times heartbreaking adventure! I have just spent a week at Capo Vaticano and have taken to the area. I am now scouring forums and estate agents listings and doing my research. May I take the liberty of asking where you have ended up. I have a contact now in San Lucido which looks very nice and Longobardi being quieter appeals to me. Are you anywhere near that neighbourhood? I saw a report about the cleanliness of Italy's beaches on another thread and was a bit disappointed to see that Calabria ranked amongst the lowest provinces. From what I can see the water is pretty universally crystalline and unpolluted - apart from Naples.I would really like to have a property in a centro storico with a terrace overlooking the sea and surrounded by ½ûÂþÌìÌÃs.  Do you, from experience, have recommendations as to agents that specialise in older properties and contacts with good builders / suppliers.I would be very grateful for any info you can give.Kind regardsGiulia