Basilica dell'Eremo, Minor basilica on Eremo hill in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

The Basilica dell'Eremo stands on the Eremo hill about three kilometres above Reggio Calabria's centre. The present church, designed by architect Anna Sbarracani Anastasi in a modern style, was built in reinforced concrete from a foundation stone laid in 1954 and consecrated on 30 July 1965. It replaced a 16th-century church destroyed in the 1908 earthquake. Inside are the 1547 Madonna della Consolazione altarpiece by Niccolò Andrea Caprioli, bronze panels by Alessandro Monteleone and a Via Crucis by Pasquale Panetta.

Twelve Capuchin friars from Valletuccio, called by Archbishop Geronimo Centelles in 1532, built a convent here, completed in 1569 and named Madonna della Consolazione after the 1576 plague. The 1908 earthquake destroyed the church; a wooden structure with brick infill replaced it in 1912. The present reinforced-concrete basilica, designed by Anna Sbarracani Anastasi, was consecrated on 30 July 1965 and raised to minor basilica on 28 November 1971.

The venerated altarpiece is a Madonna della Consolazione painted in 1547 by the local artist Niccolò Andrea Caprioli. It was once carried into Reggio Calabria's cathedral during epidemics; today it is brought there in procession around the September feast of Mary's birth and returned in November.

The basilica stands on the Eremo hill, about three kilometres above Reggio Calabria's city centre, on the road toward the Aspromonte. The uphill route and the slope of the ground call for sturdy shoes. The venerated painting leaves for the cathedral in the second week of September and returns by the last Sunday of November, so those weeks change what is on view inside.

A special feature is the devotion to Madonna della Consolazione, whose statue stays here for nine months each year. In autumn, it is carried in procession to the Cathedral, where it remains during fall celebrations.