Explore Riace, Reggio Calabria, Italy, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Riace map and move it around to re-centre it, switch between the standard street map and satellite imagery, and use the zoom buttons to go from the whole province down to street-level detail.
This page also offers a second, independent map. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open OpenStreetMap coverage of the whole of Italy, with a labelled UTM grid drawn the way an IGM 1:25 000 sheet draws it, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS reading that reports your position in Gauss-Boaga and UTM as well as latitude and longitude. See How to Use This Map below. Local and world news, and the nearby places worth visiting, are further down the page.
Esplora Riace, Reggio Calabria, con questa carta interattiva: puoi trascinare la mappa per ricentrarla, passare dalla veduta stradale a quella satellitare e usare i pulsanti di zoom per scendere fino al dettaglio delle vie.
La pagina offre anche una seconda carta indipendente. Il pulsante 🔍 Search Maps apre la copertura OpenStreetMap di tutta l'Italia, con la griglia UTM quotata come su una tavoletta IGM 1:25 000, lo strumento per misurare distanze e azimut, e la lettura GPS della posizione in Gauss-Boaga e UTM oltre che in latitudine e longitudine.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Riace, Reggio Calabria, Italy. Use the Map and Satellite buttons to switch between the street map and aerial photography. Use the + and − buttons to zoom, or hold the Control key while scrolling the mouse wheel. On a touchscreen, pinch with two fingers. Drag the map to pan anywhere in Reggio Calabria or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill the screen. To go back, press Escape, click ✕ Exit Fullscreen above the map, or on a phone tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
SEARCH MAPS. The green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map opens a second, independent map on OpenStreetMap coverage of the whole country. Its search box finds any Italian comune, frazione, mountain or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Riace.
Reading the map like an IGM sheet. Click Grid to lay a labelled UTM grid over the map, quoted along the edges the way a printed IGM 1:25 000 tavoletta quotes it — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so a six-figure reference can be read by eye and distance judged straight off the map. Click Measure and tap two points for the distance between them with the grid, true and magnetic bearings, the last being the one to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position for a single GPS fix. It marks where you are and reports it as Gauss-Boaga (the grid printed on the IGM Carta d'Italia), as ETRS89 / UTM (the grid Italy uses today), and as plain latitude and longitude, with a copy button so it can be pasted into a message. It takes one reading and stops, to save the battery. Map tiles need mobile coverage; a GPS reading does not — so the grid reference stays correct in the Apennines and the Alps, where the map itself often will not load.
Usa i pulsanti Map e Satellite per passare dalla carta stradale alla fotografia aerea, i pulsanti + e − per lo zoom, e trascina la mappa per spostarti. Il pulsante 🔍 Search Maps apre una seconda carta su OpenStreetMap con la ricerca di qualsiasi comune, frazione o cima d'Italia, la griglia UTM quotata come su una tavoletta IGM 1:25 000, la misura di distanze e azimut (di griglia, vero e magnetico) e la lettura GPS della posizione in Gauss-Boaga, in ETRS89/UTM e in coordinate geografiche. Le tessere della mappa richiedono la rete mobile, la lettura GPS no: il riferimento resta valido anche dove la carta non si carica.
| Comune | Riace |
| Province / Provincia | Reggio Calabria |
| Region / Regione | Calabria |
| Country / Paese | Italy / Italia |
| Latitude | 38.387987 |
| Longitude | 16.525583 |
| Population 2021 | 1,813 |
| Main centre / Capoluogo | 497 |
| Altitude | 5 m |
| River or stream / Fiume o torrente | Torrente Riace (0.7 km north-west) |
| Nearest summit / Vetta più vicina | Monte Prescopio (0.9 km west); Monte Guardia (1.1 km north-west) |
| Pass / Passo | Passo Tagliato (12.1 km north) |
| Valley / Valle | Contrada Ierretano (2.7 km north) |
| Park / Parco | Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte (23.7 km west) |
| Protected area / Area protetta | Parco Naturale Regionale Serre (13.2 km north-west) |
Riace sits where the land sharpens toward the Ionian shore, defined by the dry, stony path of the Torrente Riace and the shadows cast by Monte Prescopio. The air here holds the salt of the sea and the dry heat of the interior, moving across the slopes of Contrada Ierretano. Below the village, the landscape opens toward the wider valley of the Vallata del Precariti, where the light turns pale gold as the afternoon wanes. It is a place of ridges and sudden inclines, where the earth feels tight and unyielding under the intense southern sun.
Beyond the municipality, the landscape reveals the weight of history in its stone remains. Visitors can walk the perimeter of the Castello di Monasterace, which overlooks the terrain from a short distance away, or explore the remnants at the Tempio di Kaulon. The Faro di Punta Stilo marks the point where the coast bends, a steady presence against the horizon. Further inland, the Museo Antica Kaulon preserves the fragments of a distant past, anchoring the local identity within the wider reach of the region.
Riace si adagia dove il terreno si fa aspro verso la costa ionica, segnato dal letto arido del Torrente Riace e dall'ombra austera del Monte Prescopio. L'aria trattiene il sale del mare e il calore secco dell'entroterra, muovendosi tra i versanti della Contrada Ierretano. Sotto il borgo, il paesaggio si apre verso la Vallata del Precariti, dove la luce diventa oro pallido al declinare del giorno. È una terra di creste e pendenze improvvise, dove la roccia appare compatta e severa sotto il sole intenso del sud.
Oltre i confini del comune, il paesaggio svela il peso della storia nelle sue vesti di pietra. Si possono osservare le mura del Castello di Monasterace, che domina il territorio a breve distanza, o visitare i resti del Tempio di Kaulon. Il Faro di Punta Stilo indica il punto in cui la costa curva, una presenza costante contro l'orizzonte. Più all'interno, il Museo Antica Kaulon conserva i frammenti di un passato remoto, ancorando l'identità locale all'ampio respiro della regione.
Distances are straight-line from the map centre. / Distanze in linea d'aria. Linked names open Wikipedia.
| Comune | Distance | Direction | Population |
| Stignano | 5.9 km | north-west | 1,231 |
| Camini | 6.2 km | north-west | 808 |
| Monasterace | 6.6 km | north-east | 3,311 |
| Placanica | 6.8 km | west | 1,043 |
| Caulonia | 7.0 km | south-west | 6,739 |
| Stilo | 11.0 km | north-west | 2,404 |
| Pazzano | 11.7 km | north-west | 498 |
| Bivongi | 12.4 km | north-west | 1,163 |
Explore Riace, Reggio Calabria, Italy, with an embedded Google street and satellite map — switch between the two with the buttons on the map. Coordinates: 38.387987, 16.525583. Place names, the comune and provincia hierarchy and the population come from Istat: the administrative boundaries of 1 January 2026 and the 2021 census of inhabited localities. Local and world news feeds keep the page current, and the bilingual description is written from the data this site holds rather than copied from elsewhere. The 31 nearby places listed above are drawn from OpenStreetMap, the IGM toponym database and a curated list checked against Wikipedia.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Italian comune, frazione, mountain or landmark by name; overlays a labelled UTM grid quoted the way a printed IGM 1:25 000 tavoletta quotes it; measures distance with grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a Gauss-Boaga reference, as ETRS89 / UTM, and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference stays correct where the map cannot load.
There is no topographic layer on these pages. The Istituto Geografico Militare serves its Carta d'Italia only inside the EU, so an Italian equivalent of the 1:25 000 walking sheet cannot be shown here — the UTM grid over OpenStreetMap is what stands in its place.
Carta interattiva di Riace, Reggio Calabria, con veduta stradale e satellitare. Toponimi, gerarchia comune/provincia e popolazione provengono dall'Istat: confini amministrativi al 1° gennaio 2026 e censimento 2021 delle località abitate. Il pulsante Search Maps apre una seconda carta su OpenStreetMap con ricerca per nome, griglia UTM quotata come su una tavoletta IGM 1:25 000, misura di distanze e azimut, e lettura GPS in Gauss-Boaga, ETRS89/UTM e coordinate geografiche. Non è presente un livello topografico: l'IGM distribuisce la Carta d'Italia solo all'interno dell'Unione Europea.
| Page built | October 2026 |
| Place data | Istat confini amministrativi and basi territoriali (località abitate, censimento 2021) © Istat (2026) CC BY 4.0. Data modified / Dati modificati: coordinates converted from UTM zone 32N to WGS84; page addresses use unaccented names; officially bilingual names are split into their Italian and minority-language forms. |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Carta IGM © Istituto Geografico Militare (2026) CC BY 4.0; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Nearby places | © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); landmarks, heritage, protected areas and landscape from IGM DBTI (CC BY 4.0); curated landmark lists verified against Wikipedia |