Pazzano is a village and comune located in Locride's region in the province of Reggio Calabria (Calabria, southern Italy).

The first known mention of Pazzano dates to a 1094 document. The town was founded as a minerary center for the exploitation of iron (by pyrite and limonite) and molybdenum (the latter in caves of Monte Stella and Monte Consolino) deposits. At the time of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, its 25 mines made Pazzano the most important mining centre in all of southern Italy.

Pazzano became a comune in 1811. Minerary activities lasted until the 20th century. During the 1950s, the inhabitants began to emigrate to northern Italy, and Pazzano's population drastically reduced.

By the 1980s the ecomuseum Ecomuseo delle ferriere e fonderie di Calabria (Ecomuseum of iron-foundry and foundry of Calabria) was to preserve and remember the industrial archaeology of the town.

The economy of Pazzano is largely based on agriculture and tourism.

Pazzano is located on the SS 110 state road, 15 km from the coastal town of Monasterace Marina.