The Castello di Amantea sits on the highest point of the old town, looking out over the Tyrrhenian sea in one direction and back into the Calabrian hills in the other. What remains is a ring of ruined walls, the base of a square tower, and an old chapel — most of the upper structures collapsed long ago and the rest were dismantled in the 19th century.
The walk up is a steep climb through the stepped alleys of the centro storico — twenty minutes from the lower town, longer if you stop in any of the churches on the way. The view from the top stretches as far as the Aeolian Islands on a clear day, and the rocks of Stromboli sometimes show up on the horizon at sunset.