Five fishing villages cling to the rugged Ligurian coast, their pastel houses stacked like children’s blocks against the steep cliffs. The trails that connect them wind through terraced vineyards and fragrant lemon groves. Monterosso has the beach. Vernazza has the harbour. Corniglia sits highest, reached by a long staircase. Manarola and Riomaggiore face the sunset […]
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The coastline of the Cilento National Park stretches for 100 kilometres along the Tyrrhenian Sea, a sequence of cliffs, coves, and sandy beaches that rivals the Amalfi Coast but draws a fraction of the crowds. Inland, the mountains of the Cilento rise to over 1,800 metres, covered in forests of chestnut, oak, and beech. The […]
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Pollino National Park is the largest national park in Italy, a vast, rugged wilderness of nearly 2,000 square kilometres straddling the border of Calabria and Basilicata in southern Italy, where the rare Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii), a living fossil from the Ice Age, still grows on the high limestone peaks of the Pollino and Orsomarso […]
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Abruzzo National Park is one of Italy’s oldest and most important protected areas, a 500 km² wilderness of pristine beech forests, alpine meadows, and limestone peaks in the Apennine Mountains of central Italy that is home to the critically endangered Marsican brown bear, the Apennine wolf, and the Abruzzo chamois, a goat-antelope found nowhere else […]
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Gran Paradiso National Park in Valle d’Aosta is Italy’s oldest national park, established in 1922 when King Victor Emmanuel III donated the Royal Hunting Reserve to the Italian state specifically to protect the Alpine ibex, a species that had been hunted to fewer than 60 individuals by the end of the 19th century and now […]
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