Locations
Calabria, Italy
The beautiful and unspoilt region of Calabria is now regarded as one of Italy’s best kept secrets. For years Northern Italians have been flocking to Calabria for holidays and retreats. However recently, a rise in international media coverage has made Calabria a popular hotspot and fashionable area to live, holiday and invest for both Italians and the outside world.
Situated in the southernmost toe of the Italian boot, Calabria offers some of Italy’s most scenic and rich landscapes. Its natural beauty boasts spectacular and rugged mountainous backdrops with awe inspiring cliffs that plunge into the sea and surrounded by miles of stunning sandy coastline. To add to Calabria’s natural appeal, there are hundreds of places to explore and adventure from its fascinating history and picturesque seaside towns to ski resorts and national parks with gorgeous untouched lakes.
Today, Calabria is becoming widely regarded as a true emerging market thanks to its natural beauty, low cost of living and relatively low property prices compared to other regions in Italy. The growth of the budget airlines such as Ryanair has also hugely increased accessibility into the region with flight times from just 2 hours from most major European cities and 3 hours from the UK. While property prices are still much lower than other locations, there is huge potential to profit not only from rental returns but real capital growth. While capital growth has been dwindling in many other more established locations around both Italy and Europe, Calabria is still experiencing growth much higher than average.
Montenegro
Montenegro is a small, but very mountainous country on the Adriatic coast, between Croatia and Albania and opposite the heel of Italy. Montenegro is very accessible being less than 3 hours flight from most of Europe and Russia. There are two main airports; Tivat and Podgorica, but many travellers also use Dubrovnik airport in Croatia, which is just 14km from the Montenegro border. Back in 19th century, Lord Byron wrote “At the birth of our planet, the most beautiful encounter between the land and the sea must have happened at the coast of Montenegro. When the pearls of nature were sown, handfuls of them were cast on this soil.”
Montenegro still retains its natural charm and beauty. Architecture dating back to the 12th Century is still prevalent among the many UNESCO heritage towns and villages. Montenegro’s natural beauty is dramatic; mountains dropping down to mirrored water in the UNESCO heritage Kotor fjord and the crystal clear waters of the Adriatic lapping the sandy beaches of the coast. Drive into the mountains to find river canyons (one being the second deepest the world), glacial lakes, untouched nature and a fledgling ski and eco-tourism industry. On the coast, the climate is Mediterranean rising to 40 degrees in August, but cooler inland where the climate is Continental.
Infrastructure is rapidly improving with many projects ongoing being funded by the state, the EU, Russia and the US. Currently it is frustrating driving in Montenegro during the winter as many roads are closed, but this is evidence of the ever improving infrastructure.
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Albania
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