The pretty little-known Italian town that is always overlooked by tourists – but is much more affordable [Video]

“RELAX and let the ocean revive you,” the therapist says, as she slathers my skin in gel.

It has a distinct seaweed aroma due to one of its main ingredients, algae, which is rich in vitamins and minerals.

I’m on a beachside spa cabana and fittingly the soundtrack to accompany this lovely marine-based treatment is the lap of gentle waves.

Capovaticano Resort and Thalasso (seawater) Spa takes its name from the small hamlet of coves, beaches and homes scattered amid a cactus-dotted landscape that sits five miles from Tropea in Calabria, far south on Italy’s “toe” at the very end of the …