Riserva Naturale
Riserva Naturale in Calabria
3 towns
Calabria has 3 Riserva Naturale communes in our index. They are in the Cosenza and Catanzaro provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Corigliano-Rossano, Spezzano della Sila, and Taverna.
The towns
Corigliano-Rossano
Province: Cosenza · 219 m
The Sibari plain city merged in 2018 from two older towns, one built around a Norman castle and the other around a Byzantine manuscript tradition.
Spezzano della Sila
Province: Cosenza · 800 m
A Sila plateau borgo at 800 meters, the gateway to the national park and its high forests.
Taverna
Province: Catanzaro · 530 m
A hilltown at the foot of a mountain plateau, its stone core arranged around a fifteenth-century Dominican church.
From elsewhere in Italy
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San Donato Val di Comino
Province: Frosinone
A medieval village at 728 meters at the gateway to Forca d'Acero, the pass into the Abruzzo National Park.
Longiano
Province: Forlì-Cesena
A 179-meter Malatesta borgo on the hills between Cesena and Rimini, holding a major twentieth-century art collection inside the family castle.
Seneghe
Province: Oristano
An olive-oil village on the eastern slope of Montiferru, 25 km from Oristano, that doubles as Sardegna's poetry capital each September.
Vitorchiano
Province: Viterbo
A peperino borgo built on a single volcanic boulder near Viterbo.
Porto San Giorgio
Province: Fermo
A 15,000-resident beach town on the Adriatic between Ancona and Pescara, with one of the largest tourist marinas in the central Adriatic, the medieval Rocca Tiepolo above the harbor, and a long fine-sand seafront under date palms.