Calabria
07.03.2025 – Metaponto
Tempio di Hera, N40° 24.870′ E16° 49.050′
Archeologischer Park, N40° 23.024′ E16° 49.415′
07.03.2025 – Castle of Rocca Imperiale
N40° 06.567′ E16° 34.633′
7.03.2025 – Federiciano Castle
N39° 58.898′ E16° 36.996′
06.03.2025 – Foce del Crati Nature Reserve
N39° 43.474′ E16° 31.834′
06.03.2025 – Ducal Castle of Corigliano Calabro
N39° 35.799′ E16° 31.025′
05.03.2025 – Punta Alice
N39° 24.050′ E17° 09.422′
05.03.2024 – Temple of Cassian & Temple of the Tripoda
N39° 14.365′ E16° 54.799′
N39° 14.340′ E16° 54.529′
05.03.2024 – Castle of Santa Severina
N39° 08.813′ E16° 54.897′
04.03.2025 – Cape Colonna
N39° 01.546′ E17° 12.013′
04.03.2025 – Le Castella Castle
N38° 54.431′ E17° 01.280′
03.03.2025 – Rupe Waterfall
N39° 00.575′ E16° 41.421′
03.03.2025 – Campanaro Waterfall
N39° 01.019′ E16° 41.114′
03.03.2025 – Valli Cupe
N38° 58.382′ E16° 44.030′
01.03.2025 – Scolacium
N38° 48.422′ E16° 35.600′
28.02.2025 – Pietracupa Waterfall
N38° 32.404′ E16° 26.243′
28.02.2025 – Forest of Stilo
N38° 33.549′ E16° 23.760′
26.02.2025 – Archiphoros Forest
N38° 33.145′ E16° 20.205′
26.02.2025 – Serra San Bruno
Karthäuserkloster, N38° 34.094′ E16° 19.060′
25.02.2025 – Village of Fernadea
N38° 30.528′ E16° 22.782′
25.02.2025 – Marmarico Waterfall
N38° 30.160′ E16° 23.789′
24.02.2025 – Grangia Of The Apostles
N38° 29.460′ E16° 27.834′
24.02.2025 – Orthodox Monastery of St. John Therestis
N38° 29.639′ E16° 28.463′
24.02.2025 – Norman Castle of Roger II
N38° 28.861′ E16° 27.943′
24.02.2024 – Hermitage of Montestella
N38° 28.080′ E16° 26.934′
24.02.2025 – Catolica di Stilo
N38° 28.812′ E16° 28.094′
23.02.2025 – Stilo
N38° 28.800′ E16° 28.074′
22.02.2025 – The Merchant’s Pass
N38° 20.056′ E16° 08.094′
22.02.2025 – Gerace
N38° 16.340′ E16° 13.185′
22.02.2025 – Peter’s Rock
N38° 11.394′ E16° 03.073′
21. – 22.02.2025 – Cappa Stone
N38° 10.739′ E16° 00.107′
19.02.2025 – Maisano Falls
N38° 06.778′ E15° 54.272′
18.02.2025 – Roghudi Vecchio
N38° 02.929′ E15° 54.993′
18.02.2025 – Drako Rock
N38° 02.977′ E15° 56.467′
17.02.2025 – Africo Vecchio
N38° 03.831′ E15° 58.611′
17.02.2025 – Bova
N37° 59.703′ E15° 55.914′
17.02.2025 – Saline Ionice
N37° 56.507′ E15° 42.747′
16.02.2025 – Pentidattilo
N37° 57.232′ E15° 45.659′
16.02.2025 – Ruffo di Scilla Castle – Chianalea
Castello Ruffo di Scilla
N38° 15.368′ E15° 42.863′
Chianalea
N38° 15.281′ E15° 43.018′
15.02.2025 – Cliff of the Olive Tree
N38° 22.900′ E15° 51.433′
15.02.2025 – Capo Vaticano
N38° 37.131′ E15° 49.685′
14.02.2025 – Tropea
N38° 40.522′ E15° 53.688′
14.02.2025 –
14.02.2025 – Spaggia Paradiso del Sub & Spaggia Michellino
Spaggio Paradiso, N38° 42.874′ E15° 58.389′
Spaggio Michellino, N38° 41.084′ E15° 55.185′
14.02.2025 – Murat Castle of Pizzo Calabro
N38° 44.131′ E16° 09.622′
14.02.2025 -Della Valle Castle
N39° 14.013′ E16° 04.027′
13.02.2025 – Mount Botte Donato
N39° 17.030′ E16° 27.164′
13.02.2025 – Lake Arvo
N39° 14.192′ E16° 29.962′
13.02.2025 – Lake Ampollino
N39° 12.079′ E16° 38.022′
12.02.2025 – Florense Abbey
N39° 15.168′ E16° 42.072′
For this Florense Abbey (1st picture), which to make matters worse was half full of scaffolding (2nd picture), I had a horror trip behind me.
This time not through the wilderness but through the city. There are indeed main roads in Italy that get narrower and narrower without warning. (picture 3).
I was travelling on one of these, through San Giovanni i Fiore. After every bend, I thought it would get better. But it didn’t. A huge queue of cars had already formed behind me. And then the limit was reached.
The next section was so narrow that I wouldn’t have even reversed. And reversing was the only option if things didn’t improve.
I stopped and asked the driver behind me if he spoke English. Thankfully, he confirmed that he did. But in my excitement I spoke to him in German. We got on anyway and he assured me that things would get better after this bottleneck.
I had to fold in both side mirrors to get through. The highlight at the end was a 90° bend in which I had to manoeuvre back and forth three times so that the houses didn’t scrape me.
Finally I made it, as you can see in the 4th picture. I first walked along the road that was supposed to take me out of the village to make sure I didn’t have to call the police, who would have had to organise road closures for me.
12.02.2025 – I Giganti Della Sila
N39° 19.467′ E16° 28.032′
12.02.2025 – Tarsia Nature Reserve
N39° 36.210′ E16° 17.898′
11.02.2025 – Pollino Plain
N39° 54.397′ E16° 16.007′
11.02.2025 – Raganello Gorge and Devil’s Bridge
N39° 49.750′ E16° 19.094′
10.02.2025 – Morano Calabro
N39° 50.636′ E16° 08.137′
09.02. bis 11.02.2025 Pollino Regional Park
Belvedere Dei Pini Loricati, N39° 54.119′ E16° 06.987′ – Colle Dell’Impiso, N39° 56.039′ E16° 09.691′ – Cozzo Menichetti, N39° 56.801′ E16° 08.851′
09.02.2025 – Lao River
N39° 50.644′ E15° 53.477′
09.02.2025 – Orsomarso
N39° 48.002′ E15° 54.575′
09.02.2025 – Cirella Vecchia
N39° 43.024′ E15° 49.127′
09.02.2025 – Scalea
N39° 49.000′ E15° 47.433′
08.02.2025 – Arcomagno in San Nicola Arcella
N39° 51.307′ E15° 47.500′
07.02.2025 – Argentine River Valley
N39° 47.893′ E15° 54.699′
06.02.2025 – Dino Island and Madonna of the Cave
Isola di Dino, N39° 52.427′ E15° 46.494′
Madonna della Grotta, N39° 53.806′ E15° 47.085′
06.02.2025 – Praia di Mare
N39° 53.932′ E15° 46.612′