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Pollino National Park
$22.00
The largest national park in Italy, drawn around the Pollino massif where Basilicata and Calabria meet. The thing the photographers come for is the Loricato pine, Pinus heldreichii, the silver-barked relict that grows where almost nothing else does, two thousand metres up on the ridges of Serra di Crispo and Serra delle Ciavole. One of them, named Italus, has been carbon-dated past 1,230 years, the oldest scientifically aged tree in Europe. The villages on the shoulders of the park, San Paolo Albanese among them, still speak Arbëreshë, the language Albanian refugees brought across the Adriatic in the fifteenth century.
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