Situated at the tip of the boot, between the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, Calabria is one of the Italian regions that evokes the magic of the Mediterranean and everything that is connected to it: from the rich millenary culture to the splendid coastlines, from the delicious and varied regional cuisine to the idyllic natural environment dotted with patches of olive groves and other typically Mediterranean shrub-like cultivations.
After leaving the coast, the hinterland rises, detaching itself from the sea to cross the hills and reach the great mountain chain of the Southern Apennines. On the mountain chain, the great upland plains of the Sila stretch for 17,000 hectares to form a series of broad plateaus that are an average of 1,300 metres above sea level, between the provinces of Cosenza, Crotone, and Catanzaro. This is where the Sila Sheepdog is the most widespread.
Covered by thick vegetation, bordered by steep slopes, and surrounded by numerous reliefs, the upland plain of the Sila presents various types of landscape and animal and vegetable species. Its name derives from the Latin silva, which indeed means "forest": the beauty and the importance of these places had led to the establishment of a Sila National Park to protect its treasures. Indeed, Sila is the second largest forest of Europe after the Black Forest.
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