Natural
Beauty
Calabria enchants everybody a
first sight with its rich variety of charming characteristics: a
warm and colourful world full of contrasts and attractions.
Exclusive holiday resorts, historic villages full of legends,
excellent cooking, vivid traditions, the warm hospitality of the
Calabrians and almost 800 km of coastline with lonely bays
inviting you to relax and unwind. Fascinating forests, three
national parks, and impressing mountain chains as e.g. the Sila
Mountains or Aspromonte are full of inspirations for adventures
and nature lovers. The scent of numerous medicinal herbs and
spices mixes with the salty smell of the Ionic and the
Thyrrhenic Sea. Relaxation is guaranteed here and you will
quickly forget your everyday life.
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mountain village Meira & Grisolia |
statue in Maratea |
Scalea at night |
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Calabrias cultural wealth
Besides the unspoilt nature you also find the roots of ancient
cultures and traditions which are several thousand years old and
survived the times in Calabria. The visitor finds a fascinating
world where splendid and vivid nature mixes with the traces of
ancient civilisation giving room for villages built like
fortresses, churches, monasteries, castles and ancient palaces.
These numerous historic testimonies and ancient legacies tell us
about a cultural history of several thousand years as Calabria
has been inhabited since prehistoric times. There were periods
of glory as well as of miserable desertedness, the land was
devastated by invaders and natural disasters, and still it has
conserved its enormous historic and cultural heritage until
today.
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Scalea |
Antonio Capo Centro Storico |
Grotto Scalea |
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Benvenuti in Calabria
On the one hand the Calabrians are called stubborn, obstinate
and quick-tempered; on the other hand, however, they are proud,
loyal, honest, helpful and above all extremely hospitable. You
will particularly enjoy this hospitality, if you show your
interest in people and country and if you treat the Calabrians
with an open mind and in the best case in their own language. A
friendly "buon giorno" is always the best way to get in contact.
As the contemporary author Giuseppe Berto wrote: “Tourism does
not only mean to bathing in the sea and admiration of landscape,
monuments, and cities. It also means getting in contact with
people of different cultural backgrounds, understanding each
other and, if possible, liking each other.
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