Fiumare characterise the territory from the mountains to the sea. Their journey, relatively brief, goes from the mountain above to the sea below in quick paths, that create depressions in the ground. The biggest fiumara of this area is the Amendolea one, that flows into Condofuri Marina, drawing a great silver cobblestone path running alongside orange groves and broom plants.

“Soon or later the fiumare sweep everything away”. This is what Corrado Alvaro used to write, representing the violence with which Nature has often come back to claim back what was taken from her.

Detail of a fiumara Photo Archive Province of Reggio Calabria - Photo by: Olga Gutierrez Gomez		Bova Superiore Photo Archive Province of Reggio Calabria - Photo by: Vittorio Parrino