The city was founded by colonos coming from Calcídica and Mesenia on century VIII a.C., but of its Greek and Roman past it is not left anything: everything has been destroyed by the numerous earthquakes that in the course of the centuries have struck the city.
They are interesting: the National Museum (where the Bronzes of Riace can be admired), the Cathedral, reconstructed after the earthquake of 1908), and the rest of the Castle of century XVI.
In center of the city are the most important symbols of the culture and reggina history.
The Museum Archeologico de Reggio Calabria was instituted in 1882, originally like civic museum. The building that provides with accomodations it was constructed, as of the 1932, under the project of the architect Marcello Piacentini, but it was made unusable during the war and after her. In 1955 partially it was opened to the public. The sections are several: the prehistoric collection., the section locrese, the section dedicated to the Greek colonies of the Calabria, the numismatic section and the section of subaqueous archaeology, that from 1981 provides with accomodations to famous bronzes of Riace, precious testimony of bronze the Greek sculpture of the s. V to of C, in addition Head to the Philosopher I gave Porticello, discovered in the rest of a ship found to the wide thing of of the Philosopher I gave Porticello. In hope that comes made the Pinacoteca Comunale, the Nazionale Museum also provides with accomodations the collection of the Civic Museum, that includes/understands works of the 700-900, between which the collections by Domenico Genoese and Monsolino - Lavagna - Of Blasio and the wood small tables Antonello Da Messina.
In the route Reggio Campi, to the backs of the Chiesa from San Paolo to the Roundhouse, is the Piccolo Museum San Paolo, born of the artistic passion and the will of Mons. Francesco Gangemi. It provides with accomodations precious objects of originating sacred art worldwide, icons that go back to the bizantino period and normando, pictorial silver and works.