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Calabria is a giant peninsular which enjoys truly unique environmentai and ecological equilibria between mountain and sea which are never more than 40 km from one another. The sole land border, that to the north consisting of the extensive Pollino Natural Park shared with the region of Basilicata might lead a tourist to believe that Calabria with its 800 km of coastline bathed to the east and south by the Ionian Sea and to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea. is basically a sea-based region. Calabria's coasts are undoubtedly unique. extensive, jagged and bathed by a limpid sea. And yet some 90% of Calabria is hills and mountains. The bulwark of the Pollino, a massif replete with tree species unique in the world such as the loricate pine, and equally rare animal species is, in fact, the starting point of an articulated and complex Apennine system.The Silo plateau, for example, is the largest in Europe and first fascinated the Greek settlers and then the Romans. |
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A truly exceptional relief links Sila to the Serra and Aspromonte with its thousands of small rivers which flow to the sea. Calabria's mountains boast hospitable and modern winter and summer holiday and tourist resorts: Camigliatello in the Sila Grande, in the province of Cosenza, the myriad of small villages by the lakes of the Sila Piccola in the privince of Catanzaro; and then the resorts of the Serre between Chiaravalle, Serra San Bruno (which has a millenary) and Polia. In the province of Reggio Calabria, the Zomaro, the valley which links the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian coasts, with its lush forests is of exceptional beauty. Lastly, the Aspromonte. Its soft, slow and tortuous descent, from mountain and hill, |
leads to the sea. The shores of Calabria are places of
history and legend, but also and above all sea resorts, exclusive villages and havens of
peace. The allure of the Tyrrhenian coastline. from Praia a Mare, off which there rises
the island of Dino, to Sealea, Cirella, Diamante, Belvedere Marittimo, Sangineto, Gettaro,
Acquappesa, Guardia Piemontese, Fuscaldo, Paola, S. Lucio; to Amantea to the Gulf of S.
Eufemia. The motorway links pearls of international tourism such as Pizzo, Tropea. Ricadi
and Nicotrea, halfway between the Gulf of S. Eufemia and the Gulf of Gioia Tauro. Still on
the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the direction of Reggio Calabria, there is the Costa Viola, so
called because the sea is violet and at sunset the sky is tinged with violet. The
magnificent, sunny beaches of the Ionjan coast mark the many stages of Calabria's
fascinating history: Bova, Roghudi, Roccaforte del Greco,
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