摘要：The identification of the Metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria has highlighted the need to start a series of strategies that will allow the city to be competitive in the Mediterranean Sea. In this area the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria, because of the geographic location, has a position of particular strategic interest. One of the characteristics that distinguishes metropolitan cities is the ability to set their own international relations . The cultural route under study, emphasizing the period of “maximum splendor” of the city, would allow the launch of a system of international trade that starting from the cultural resources would allow then the networking of infrastructure, universities and businesses.
关键词：Euro-Mediterranean space; city networks; metropolitan cities; cultural routes
