mauro fumagalli Ammetto di non essere mai stato in Calabria prima, mi avvicino a Lei con un incarico speciale, un incarico datomi dal Ministero del Turismo in collaborazione con la conferenza delle Regioni italiane per creare e organizzare il progetto VIAGGIO ITALIANO - Le Vie del Bike. L'obiettivo è ambizioso e affascinante, un progetto che mette a sistema gran parte delle ciclovie e ciclabili italiane che saranno poi inserite nel nuovo portale del Ministero www.italia.it.Le Regioni ma soprattutto le Ciclovie da pedalare sono tante, allora mi metto da subito ad organizzare e pianificare il...

Story by Alex Crevar | Photos by Paolo Ciaberta On the penultimate day of a weeklong journey through the middle of southern Italy’s Calabria Region, our course tilted up and left civilization behind. This wasn’t unusual. The undulating bicycle route we followed, the 338-mile (545-kilometer) Ciclovia Parchi Calabria, was designed to guide cyclists along the tranquil, often-carless, sometimes-mountainous roads connecting the peninsular region’s remote, unindustrialized, and underappreciated interior. For hours at a time — rolling south and lengthwise across Calabria — our only companions were...

BY Angelo Melone There is a different Calabria from the one that monopolises summer commercials. It is different because of the characteristics of the land, beautiful, far from the famous seaside resorts and stretches of coastline that are fascinating but often flooded with obsessive tourism; it is also different in the tourists who pass through it and in the rapport the inhabitants have with them. It is the Calabria of impressive nature, of silences and forests, of lakes and roads with little traffic, of villages little ruined by speculation that conceal treasures of art and history, of the...

Angelika Hinteregger and Reinhard Maxbauer  Day 1: Lago Cecita to Sila Piccola (Pantane)We open the door to our accommodation early in the morning. Rays of sunshine hit our faces, loud honking sounds from the streets and people are already walking energetically. “Ciao Angelika e Reinhard!” Francesco calls out to us and beams at us. We have arrived in Calabria, the southern tip of Italy! For the next five days we want to follow part of the “Ciclovia Parchi Calabria”, whose name can be roughly translated into “the cycle path of the Calabrian Park”. The route leads over the Calabrian Apennines...

by paolo penni martelli  We cycled Calabria from north to south, crossing the mountains and the four natural parks: Pollino, Sila, Serre and Aspromonte. When we finally arrived in Reggio Calabria, we had travelled fivehundredsixtysevenpointtwentysix kilometres on top of tenthousonehundredninety metres of altitude difference, for a total of twenty-seven hours and fifty-eight minutes.We begin in Laino Borgo, the first village in Calabria that you cross coming from Basilicata. We prep the bikes for the following day and go to dinner. And already we become aware of what’s going to be one of...

Storia di elisa gallo | foto di Paolo Ciaberta Ho percorso la Ciclovia dei Parchi della Calabria nell’agosto 2021 insieme al fotografo Paolo Ciaberta. Da sud a nord, dall’Aspromonte al Pollino, attraverso Serre e Sila, raggiungendo la Calabria da Torino in treno, in perfetta sintonia con l’attenzione all’ambiente di cui la bicicletta è simbolo, e salutando a fine viaggio il Pollino dopo una panoramica discesa verso il mare.I giorni percorsi a pedalare nell’entroterra calabrese sono stati pieni di meraviglia, per la bellezza e la varietà dei paesaggi, per l’accoglienza delle persone che abbiamo...