Parghelia is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia

Province of Vibo Valentia

The Province of Vibo Valentia is a province in the Calabria region of Italy, set up by a national law of 6 March 1992 which came into effect on 1 January 1996, and formerly part of the Province of Catanzaro...

 in the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Calabria

Calabria

Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....

, located about 60 km southwest of Catanzaro and about 15 km west of Vibo Valentia

Vibo Valentia

Vibo Valentia is a city and comune in the Calabria region of southern Italy, near the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital of the province of Vibo Valentia, and is an agricultural, commercial and tourist center . There are also several large manufacturing industries, including the tuna district of...

. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,383 and an area of 8.0 km².

The municipality of Parghelia contains the frazione

Frazione

A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...

(subdivision) Fìtili.

Parghelia borders the following municipalities: Drapia

Drapia

Drapia is a comune in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about 60 km southwest of Catanzaro and about 14 km west of Vibo Valentia...

, Tropea

Tropea

Tropea is a municipality located within the province of Vibo Valentia, in Calabria .The town is a famous bathing place, situated on a reef, in the gulf of St...

, Zaccanopoli

Zaccanopoli

Zaccanopoli is a comune of the province of Vibo Valentia, it possesses around 900 inhabitants.confinements: Briatico, Drapia, Parghelia, Zambrone, Zungri....

, Zambrone

Zambrone

Zambrone is a comune in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about 60 km southwest of Catanzaro and about 9 km northwest of Vibo Valentia...

.