Into the Raganello Gorge: The Wild Heart of the Pollino
The Raganello Gorge in the Pollino National Park offers a spectacular trek through canyons, waterfalls and medieval bridges in Calabria's most untamed landscape.
Jul 5, 2026Calabria is a land still waiting to be discovered, far from mass tourism. Among the hidden villages of the Aspromonte and the Sila, the Arbereshe towns, the wild Ionian coast and the abandoned villages of the interior, here you travel slowly among nature, Greek history and living traditions. Explore one of the most authentic regions of the South.
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The Raganello Gorge in the Pollino National Park offers a spectacular trek through canyons, waterfalls and medieval bridges in Calabria's most untamed landscape.
Jul 5, 2026
Deep in Calabria's Pollino massif, Civita is an arbëreshë borgo where ancient Albanian is still spoken and a breathtaking stone bridge spans a hundred-metre gorge.
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On a sheer-sided plateau in the Marchesato Crotonese, Santa Severina shelters a unique Byzantine baptistery and an intact Norman castle.
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White houses massed on a perfect cone at the foot of the Pollino: Morano Calabro is the most photogenic and least-visited presepe borgo in Calabria.
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At the foot of Monte Consolino, Stilo conceals a 10th-century Byzantine church and a borgo where every alley tells the story of Calabrian medieval life.
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Perched on a sandstone cliff in Locride, Gerace shelters the largest Norman cathedral in the south of Italy and alleys that breathe of bergamot.
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Clinging to a cliff edge in the Grecanico Aspromonte, abandoned after a 1973 flood: houses gripping the rock face like swallows' nests.
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Between Palmi and Scilla, violet cliffs at sunset, deserted beaches and Chianalea — the fishermen's borgo built on the water. Italy's forgotten coastline.
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Five fingers of rock above the Strait of Messina, a village abandoned in the 1960s and slowly coming back to life: the south's most alive ghost town.
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