
A unique stage where the wonderful backdrop of nature bewitches the viewer among breathtaking landscapes and majestic peaks. Here the sacred Patriarchs dominate, tenacious and silent memory of a thousand-year history.
The 192,565-hectare Pollino National Park is the largest newly established protected area in Italy. Between Calabria and Basilicata, the park's territory -which includes 56 municipalities - is characterized by several mountain massifs that make up the southern Apennine chain: the Pollino Massif, the Orsomarso Mountains and Alpi Mount. Here, among lofty peaks, Nature and Man intertwine millennia-old relationships that the Park, established in 1993, preserves and protects under its symbol: the Loricate Pine (Pinus heldreichii).
In 2015 the Park became part of the European and Global Network of Geoparks under the aegis of UNESCO, which, in 2017 and 2021 respectively, included the Vetusta Faggeta of Cozzo Ferriero and the Vetusta Faggeta of Pollinello in the Transnational Site of "Ancient Primordial Beech Forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe," proclaiming them World Heritage Sites.

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