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BOOK HOTEL ROOMS & ACCOMMODATIONS HERE NOW! Hotel Rooms & Accommodations with Fast Secure Reservations engine Provided by our Partner Booking.com @no extra costs! South Italy and most of its little villages, is an area so little known to the European tourism yet in a delightful land wealthy of natural beauties, such as the Arch of Arcomagno, a natural arch of rock, entrance to an attractive coved beach, with calm turquoise sea; the Faraglioni of Capri, beautiful sea rocks in the sea of Capri, one of many in the Amalfi Coast; or the Etna Volcano, still active and one of Sicily's biggest tourist attractions. History and architecture are also very important factors of southern Italy's culture and tourist attractions, like the temple ruins of Agrigento - Sicily; Capri offering one of Italy's most beautiful piazzas (town square) in the middle of town, Piazzetta, completely closed up, giving the impression of a courtyard, surrounded by many shops and cafes and the Torre dell'Orologio (Tower of Clock); or the over 40 mt. high statue of the Christ in Maratea situated on a hill over 300 mt. high offering a most breath-taking site over the port of Maratea. Another great piece of southern Italy history, from Calabria to be exact, is the Bronzi di Riace: two magnificent bronze, human-size, male statues, found in the gulf of Riace, now showing in the museum of Reggio Calabria, representing the Greek conception of heroism and beauty for their classical composure and dynamic vitality. Great tourist attractions for both rural and coastal holidays are also the town of Rivello, based on the graceful Basilicata mountains with its typical hystorical houses that can be found in all old parts of most of southern Italy's towns, and the Trulli, typical Apulia houses with cone shaped roofs. Not to mention the delicious cuisine and friendly people, all part of a world waiting to be explored and taken advantage of.
BOOK HOTEL ROOMS & ACCOMMODATIONS HERE NOW! Hotel Rooms & Accommodations with Fast Secure Reservations engine Provided by our Partner Booking.com @no extra costs! South Italy and most of its little villages, is an area so little known to the European tourism yet in a delightful land wealthy of natural beauties, such as the Arch of Arcomagno, a natural arch of rock, entrance to an attractive coved beach, with calm turquoise sea; the Faraglioni of Capri, beautiful sea rocks in the sea of Capri, one of many in the Amalfi Coast; or the Etna Volcano, still active and one of Sicily's biggest tourist attractions. History and architecture are also very important factors of southern Italy's culture and tourist attractions, like the temple ruins of Agrigento - Sicily; Capri offering one of Italy's most beautiful piazzas (town square) in the middle of town, Piazzetta, completely closed up, giving the impression of a courtyard, surrounded by many shops and cafes and the Torre dell'Orologio (Tower of Clock); or the over 40 mt. high statue of the Christ in Maratea situated on a hill over 300 mt. high offering a most breath-taking site over the port of Maratea. Another great piece of southern Italy history, from Calabria to be exact, is the Bronzi di Riace: two magnificent bronze, human-size, male statues, found in the gulf of Riace, now showing in the museum of Reggio Calabria, representing the Greek conception of heroism and beauty for their classical composure and dynamic vitality. Great tourist attractions for both rural and coastal holidays are also the town of Rivello, based on the graceful Basilicata mountains with its typical hystorical houses that can be found in all old parts of most of southern Italy's towns, and the Trulli, typical Apulia houses with cone shaped roofs. Not to mention the delicious cuisine and friendly people, all part of a world waiting to be explored and taken advantage of.













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RAGANELLO RIVER AND CANYON - CALABRIA- SOUTH ITALY

The Raganello Canyon. A terrytory characterized by the Gole of the Raganello (gorges), that ends at the Ponte del Diavolo in Civita.
A unique show of the nature, charming and impressive, made the sheer walls of rock for over 600 metres (the wall of the Timpa of the Diavolo facing the Village of Civita is high 614 metres) with the water course and that invites to "Walk" inside the close walls made of meanders and small whirlpools of geological formation, a characteristic of this sector of Apennines making this a very unique landscape.
A landscape that must be proposed to the UNESCO as a world heritage of humanity.

Man has tried to win the inaccessibility of this places with a series of masterpieces of engineering construction considering the time of the works.
First of all the construction of the bridge d'Ilice (which is currently still in ruin state which deserves to be rebuilt) that allowed to cross the canyon at the closer and lower point of the gorge (height of the bridge from the surface of the water is only 28 metres) to put in communication the two neighbouring territories but also the distant towns of Civita with Alessandria del Carretto or San Paolo Albanese.
Secondly the Ponte del Diavolo (Devil's Bridge), a masterpiece of local craftsmen, today completely newly remodelled, following the collapse of 1998, which allowed the communication with the Alto Jonio Cosentino and the Piana of Sibari.

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The Raganello Canyon is only part of a wonderfull Raganello Valley, a territory that takes the form of a large "S" that rotates around the homonymous river and covers part of the Pollino National Park.

The Canyon is preceeded the Alta Valle del Raganello, that starts from the two main springs, covers the mountains until the confluence with the Maddalena torrent and the Gole del Barile.
It is a mixed landscape with large forests, mainly beech, naturalized after the large deforestation at the beginning of the past century. Today, this landscape is even more valuable because it is catching up its original wilderness thanks also to low presence of man and its history until our days.
The valley as we see it today is certainly the product of centuries of the work of man: the water of the water, to the terracing of the fields, to the recovery of spaces for grazing, so as to the work of thousands of men who have made it a valley, rich of agriculture products (renowned one time, the potatoes of Bellizia) to satisfaction of whole communities.
Today the Valley is more silent. There are more the large farms with tens of workers, there is no longer the continuous voices of animals, men and women. There are very few men, mostly elderly, which graze sheeps, goats and cows. In this way the valley is changing aspect.
Perhaps is catching up the ancient form, thanks to the work of the river Raganello incessant and all its tributaries, which left uncontrolled, are regaining old routes with may bring serious consequences from the hydro geological point of view.
Whole areas of land, once cultivated with wheat, today seem to "float" waiting for the next flood that will bring them away. In the final analysis, it is reversing all the work of man, even the most recent in 1980s, and soon all towns under the valley may would face the consequences in terms of floods and landslides.

The third piece of territory folowing the Raganello Canyon is the Fiumara Raganello, which starts from Civita and ends at the mouth in the Ionian Sea.
The Fiumara Raganello is the classic route of outflow of a water course from very steep mountains; often these a very wide river beds eroded by strong floods that transport large amount of shingle materials.
In these cases the river has created real and spectacular sandstone walls rich of colors.
These environments are animal refuges of considerable importance.
From the mouth of Raganello where you can meet flamingos, Black winged Stilts, Cranes; Going up the river meet Grey Herons, Ospreys and many other animals that find a home and food between the fallen stones and rocks.
Instead, in the central part of the Raganello Canyon, you can find the peregrine falcon, the buzzard or the majestic Griffon Vulture recently reintroduced through a project of the Ministry of the Environment.
The highest part is instead the reign of the Golden Eagle.