The "Ancient Tethys Ocean" guide is focused on the rocks outcropping at Timpa delle Murge and Timpa di Pietrasasso, evidence of the opening of an oceanic basin (called the Tethys) and its subsequent closure.

The guide traces a geoturistical itinerary that describes through a circular circuit the evolution of the primary geological element (the Pollino Line) and the main geological and landscape characteristics of the territory crossed.

La scoperta dell'Abisso Bifurto alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia
(extract from da European Geoparks Magazine – 2022, Issue 19, pag. 54)
At the 78th Venice International Film Festival - Biennale Cinema 2021, the movie “Il Buco” (The Hole) won the Special Jury Prize. The film, written and directed by Michelangelo Frammartino, was filmed entirely in the area of Pollino UNESCO Global Geopark with the collaboration and support of the Geopark Authority.

Ogni roccia ha la sua acqua
(extract from European Geoparks Magazine – 2021, Issue 18, pag. 43)
The Pollino UNESCO Global Geopark covers a large area of northern Calabria and the southern Basilicata regions in Italy. It hosts a complex hydrogeological system comprising several aquifers, each with its own geological, hydrogeological and hydrogeochemical characteristics.

The project was born from the collaboration between the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences of the University of Calabria and the Pollino National Park to deepen the knowledge of the territory's immense water heritage.

The project was born from the collaboration between the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences of the University of Calabria and the Pollino National Park to deepen the knowledge of the territory's immense water heritage. Scientific paper.

15th European Geoparks Conference 2019
The Pollino UNESCO Global Geopark is a large area located in the southern Italy at the border of two administrative Regions: Calabria and Basilicata. The park is included in a portion of the axial belt of the southern Apennines featured by different tectonic units deriving from the deformation of the paleogeographic elements of the Tethys ocean and its margins, such as carbonate platform and ophiolite-bearing units.

15th European Geoparks Conference 2019
The Pollino UNESCO Global Geopark is a large area located in southern Italy at the border of two administrative Regions: Calabria and Basilicata. In this area relevant geological and geomorphological features stand together with many natural and cultural assets.

(extract from European Geoparks Magazine – 2018, Issue 15, pag. 56)
Since becoming a Unesco Global Geopark, the Pollino National Park territory as achieved a new prestigious award: the ancient beech forest of Cozzo Ferriero in the municipality of Rotonda was included in Unesco’s list of World Heritage Sites.

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Calabria is the southern termination of the Apennine peninsular chain, resting in the toe of the Italian belt.

Published on the occasion of the 8th UNESCO Global Geoparks Workshop in Italy.
The volume contains a summary of the contributions of the Workshop participants and is a useful guide to understanding what a UNESCO Geopark is and to the scientific representation of some of the places and/or Geosites of the Pollino Geopark.

(extract from da European Geoparks Magazine – 2017, Issue 14, pag. 49)
Civita is a small village situated on the steep rocky slopes of the Raganello Valley in Pollino Geopark, and represents one of Southern Italy’s Arbëreshë communities.

(extract from European Geoparks Magazine – 2016, Issue 13, pag. 61)
The area of Pollino UNESCO Global Geopark is located in southern Italy, on the border between
the regions of Basilicata and Calabria. It covers 19,252 km2 and includes 56 municipalities with 150,624 inhabitants.

Within the concept of natural heritage, there is, more specifically, the concept of Geological Heritage, which can be defined as the set of non-renewable natural resources, of scientific, cultural or educational value, that make it possible to recognise, study and interpret the evolution of the Earth's geological history and the processes that have affected it.

Publication related to the Naturarte project and produced within the INNGREENPAF Programme of the Basilicata Region's Parks, Biodiversity and Nature Protection Office. Book illustrated by Giuseppe Palumbo with five stories, written by several hands and coordinated and revised by Roberto Piumini.

The map shows on the front side: the Quaternary filling deposits of the intermountain basins, the Frido, Nord-Calabrese, Verbicaro, Pollino, Tectonic Units and the Calabro-Lucano Flysch Complex; on the back side: the Geotouristic Routes.

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Nature, Culture and Sustainability in the climate and environmetal change

The study of geosites in protected areas allows to highlight local geological peculiarities, but also drives the process that transforms the geological heritage into an attractor, in accordance with the need of its conservation.

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Nature, Culture and Sustainability in the climate and environmetal change

The cycle path follows the route of the ancient railway Spezzano Albanese Terme-Castrovillari-Lagonegro, commonly known as the Calabro-Lucana Railway. The Campotenese plateau is a strategic area of the geopark, because is the junction point of the two great mountain chains of the Geopark (the Pollino and Orsomarso mountain chains).  

16th European Geoparks Conference– Verbania, 26/30 Settembre 2022
Nature, Culture and Sustainability in the climate and environmetal change

The landscape of the Pollino Geopark is strongly controlled by lithologies and structures, as well as by the intense uplift occurred during the Quaternary. This area lies in one of the most geodinamically active sectors of the central Mediterranean area, where complex crustal deformation is occurring as a result of the Africa-Europe collision, still active.

This valuable work by Dr. Antonio Maffei in e-book format represents the fruit of years of study and profound floristic, ecological and scientific knowledge of the most significant autochthonous and endemic flora of the Pollino Park. From the research carried out so far, it is estimated that the flora present within the Pollino Park may consist of over 2,000 species. The aim of the volume is to make the most representative species of the Pollino Park's biodiversity known, with the hope of stimulating greater sensitivity towards nature in general and flora in particular, a fundamental heritage to be respected, defended and passed on from one generation to the next.