Mormanno

Mormanno sits at 840 meters in Pollino National Park, in the Calabrian half of the massif, between the opposing ridges of Costa and Vernita and within reach of the Lao river valley. The Pellegrino group rises immediately above the town, Monte Palanuda at 1,632 meters and Monte Cerviero at 1,443. Local historians read its origins back to the Lombard era; the first surviving document, a Greek-language deed of donation, dates to 1092.

The Sanseverino of Bisignano held the fief until 1612. The eighteenth-century Neapolitan-Baroque cathedral sits at the center of a historic plan organized into four quarters: Costa to the west, Capo lo Serro to the east, Casalicchio south, Torretta north. The town is in the Città del Vino network and is known across Calabria for two products: white poverelli beans and lentils grown on the surrounding slopes, and the bocconotto di Mormanno, a single-bite shortcrust pastry filled with mostarda or grape jam.

From Lamezia / Reggio (SUF), about 2h 10m by car.

Naples / Salerno (NAP) is about 2h 23m away.

By car from the centre of Salerno 1h 50m, Naples 2h 23m or Bari 3h 33m.