loading ...Lamezia Terme, commonly named Lamezia, is a city and comune in the province of Catanzaro (Calabria) in Italy. It is the major city on the Tyrrhenian Sea side of Italy in the 500 km-stretch from Salerno to Reggio Calabria.
Lamezia, composed by Nicastro, Sambiase and Sant'Eufemia, is 35 km from Catanzaro, 70 km from Cosenza and 135 km from Reggio Calabria. The city is site on the eastern border of the coastal plain commonly called Piana di Sant'Eufemia, in the middle of the Calabrian coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, which was created by drying a wide marshy area. The commune's center is located approximatively midway in the isthmus separating the Tyrrhenian from the Ionian coast. A native or inhabitant of Lamezia Terme is called Lametian (Lametino in Italian).