Parco Regionale
Parco Regionale in Calabria
3 towns
Calabria holds 3 Parco Regionale sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, and Vibo Valentia provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Badolato, Stilo, and Pizzo.
The towns
Badolato
Province: Catanzaro · 240 m
A medieval borgo of thirteen churches at 240 meters above the Ionian, which took in 350 Kurdish refugees in 1997 and started its own slow rebirth.
Stilo
Province: Reggio Calabria · 400 m
A Byzantine hilltown on the slope below a ruined Norman ridge, home to the tenth-century Cattolica and the legendary inspiration for Campanella's City of the Sun.
Pizzo
Province: Vibo Valentia · 44 m
A tuff-cliff town over the Gulf of Sant'Eufemia, where a king was shot in 1815 and the tartufo gelato was invented a century later.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Angera
Province: Varese
A Lake Maggiore town on the southern shore, anchored by a fortified castle on a limestone spur above the water, with a museum trail running from prehistory to the medieval period along the waterfront.
Montalcino
Province: Siena
A walled hill town at 564 meters above the Val d'Orcia, the last fortress to hold out for the Sienese Republic and the birthplace of Brunello.
Cervia
Province: Ravenna
The Adriatic salt town with 827 hectares of working saline, planned in 1697 around a grid of salt workers' houses.
Anversa degli Abruzzi
Province: L'Aquila
At 604 meters above the Sagittario Gorges, a cliff village built around a Norman castle rebuilt by the Counts of Sangro.
Sammichele di Bari
Province: Bari
A Murge town at 280 meters founded in 1609, anchored by the Caracciolo castle and famous for the zampina pork sausage.