It is located in the old town of Vibo Valencia and it was requested by the marquis of Santa Caterina, Luca Vincenzo di Francia, at the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th [...]
Villa Comunale of Reggio Calabria was intended to be originally a botanical orchard and was realised by “Società Economica e Comizio Agrario”, which had already bought the area in 1850. A [...]
(English version below) Il Parco della Biodiversità Mediterranea, un tempo Parco della Scuola Agraria, è stato inaugurato nel 2004; si trova nel centro del comune di Catanzaro ed è interamente [...]
MuSaBa was founded in 1986 by Nik Spatari and Hiske Maas. The acronym means “Museo Santa Barbara” and it refers to a museum located in Mammola’s Santa Barbara monastery in the province of Reggio [...]
(ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW) Il Parco Naturale Regionale delle Serre si estende su una superficie di 17.687 ettarie comprende anche la zona del Lago Angitola (vedi). Pendici e rilievi [...]
Pollino National Park is the widest protected area in Italy and it is named after Pollino massif. It was established in 1988 and it covers a surface of 192.565 hectares, of which 103.915 are in [...]
Aspromonte National Park, whose name comes from the Aspromonte massif, is located in the province of Reggio Calabria, in a protected area. It was created in 1989 and its territory was defined in [...]
Pinus nigra spp. calabrica (Pinaceae) This centuries-old laricio pine is located in a wood of beech trees, which are the result of an installation of specimens of this species many years ago. The [...]
Platanus orientalis (Platanaceae) The plane tree of Curinga is considered one of the oldest trees of southern Italy. It is around 800-1000 years old and it was planted by Basilian monks who lived [...]
Quercus virgiliana (Fagaceae) A castagnara oak is located in a rustic environment where citrus groves prevail. This specimen has a trunk circumference of 7.30 m, a height of 20 m and it is around [...]
“Riserva Naturale Guidata Biogenetica” (RNGB) “I giganti di Fallistro” was created by the Environment Ministry on the 21st of July 1987, in order to protect a strip of many century Larice pines’ [...]
The cliff of the olive tree is located in Palmi, a town facing the sea on the Costa Viola side, so called because of the purple colour gotten by the sea in certain parts of the day. This cliff is [...]
