Steccato di Cutro is a hamlet of 700 inhabitants in the municipality of Cutro, located on the Ionian Sea in Calabria, a seaside resort that hosts villages and hotels, but mostly private homes.
The beach is almost all public, preceded in some places by a large expanse of eucalyptus.
According to the historian Pesavento, Steccato was formerly called Torre Tacina and was owned by the diocese of Isola di Capo Rizzuto, the Caracciolo family, then the family De Nobili di Catanzaro and the Doria family with the title of " barons of Tacina and Massanova ". Due to its marshy and unhealthy appearance it remained uninhabited and uninhabited until the last century. 1848 it came into the possession of the Barracco family and remained under their ownership until May 12, 1950. On this date, the Sila " Work of Valorization Sila " will confiscate the land to reclaim the marshy area and give it back to new farmers together with numerous farmhouses, still scattered here and there in the territory.
