The Lesser Sila is a tourist destination throughout the year because in every season it can amaze visitors with splendid surprises.

In winter you can cross-country or downhill ski in the marvellous mountain-centres of  Villaggio Palumbo and Villaggio Mancuso.

Lake Ampollino amidst the Sila mountains

When temperatures are milder, the Park offers a unique landscape for trekking, short walkings and walking tours, riding excursions and mountain-bike tours along enchanting well-equipped itineraries.

Ampollino Lake is a small gem inserted among the Sila mountains, in the deep green of the coniferous forests all around. Situated at almost 1300 metres on the sea level, it is the ideal place for people who love fishing, canoeing and windsurfing.

Lesser Sila
Situated between the provinces of Crotone and Catanzaro, it is one of the three areas into which the National Park of Calabria is divided. Its fascinating and evocative territory forms the south part of the Sila plateau. There are numerous river valleys, like those of the Soleo river with its uncontaminated nature and that of the Tacina river with its wide pastures and blooming vegetation.

An extraordinary botanical patrimony including maquis shrubland, dense coniferous woods and strechtes of chestnut, alder and fraxinus. Above 1000 metres of height the landscape changes into forests of pinetrees, beech-trees and more rarely silver firs, as on the Gariglione massif. The typical fauna of the Apennine territory lives amidst these mountains: wolves, foxes, hares, wild pigs and the rare hooded crow.