Rhegium

Rhegium appears once in Scripture as the final stop in Paul's Mediterranean voyage to Rome: "And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome" (Acts 28:13-14). Rhegium was a major Greek-then-Roman harbor on the toe of the Italian peninsula directly across the Strait of Messina from Sicily — a strategic stopover for ships waiting for favorable winds to make the final run up the Italian coast. The modern city of Reggio Calabria stands on the same site.