At the foot of the Sila Plateau, the Cupe Valleys represent one of the most fascinating naturalistic sites in Calabria. The “Cupe Valleys” Regional Park is a real treasure trove of hidden treasures.

Any peculiarities? Its morphology is characterized by gorges and cliffs that descend sheer for hundreds of meters; monoliths, which together make up a small universe of stone; a flora composed of numerous monumental trees of the primeval Sila forest; waterfalls and canyons that alternate, with niches of precious biodiversity; villages that tell ancient legends and stories of brigands.

The “Grand Canyon of Calabria” is a discovery that leaves you breathless, opening at the end of a narrow and dark gorge crossed by a stream. Here you are fully aware of being in the presence of an intact and ancient ecosystem, so much so that it preserves a rare species of prehistoric fern (woolly fern and Cretan Pteride) and a series of biodiversity niches of great biological importance.

The Valli Cupe Canyon is a rare stratified geological formation, whose walls, sculpted by the erosion of millennia and the dens of small animals, create a real natural setting, “gloomy” only because of the half-light. All around, in fact, a perfect harmony is released, which regenerates body and mind through the scent of Mediterranean plants. If we look up, among the ravines of the canyon we find kites, owls and even vultures to keep us company.