Pizzo

Pizzo needs 1 day: touring Castello Murat, the 15th-century Aragonese fortress where King Joachim Murat was executed by firing squad in 1815, and trying tartufo di Pizzo, the chocolate-hazelnut ice cream with a liquid center invented in the town, the same afternoon. June-September brings ideal beach weather. It's inexpensive for Calabria. Napoleon's brother-in-law and King of Naples, Joachim Murat landed here in a failed attempt to reclaim his throne after Napoleon's fall, and was captured and executed at the same castle days later, an episode still commemorated every October with a historical reenactment.