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Seen from the plane the province of Reggio Calabria, extreme tip
of the italian boot, looks like an enormous mountain caressed by the
sea.
Aspromonte, between Palmi and Capo Zefiro, south from Locri, touches
the sea with its spurs, that become sea-depths of evocative colours;
in the north it embraces from one side the Piana di Gioia Tauro,
with its ample terraces that descend green in olive and orange
groves between S. Cristina and Delianuova, and from the other side
it stretches out into the crest of Melia, that grows like a long arm
to the borders of Vibo Valentia’s Province. Aspromonte is the main
character of the province: it dominates most of the territory and,
thanks to the National Park it’s still a guardian of great forests,
and of torrents that fall down hill with evocative waterfalls to
become lakes, or to disappear into streams. But also the sea is
everywhere, with its charm, its colours and its lights. Long and
warm beaches delineate its coastlines, opening towards the so close
Sicily and the great Etna, that are a completing part to the
landscape, and that are visible from the first part of the ionic
coast, from the Viola Coast, from Palmi and from Aspromonte.
The province is rich with contraddictions, the colours are both
violent and delicate: the purple of the Tyrrhenian sea, the pale
blue of the Ionian, the deep green of the moors on the rocky slopes
of Scilla and Bagnara, and the green of the orange groves which is
everywhere on the plains. And then the smells: the sweet jasmine of
the ionic coast, the strong oregano along the cliffs that overlook
the mountains, an unbelievable quantity of medicinal herbs, the
smell of the sea, full of balmy moistures that mix together, along
the seascape, with the bittersweet smell of citrus fruits and
bergamot, that bears fruit only in this territory, or the smell of
the oil of just pressed olives. |
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