Refuge

Rifugio Libero

Cosenza · Italie0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Rifugio Libero (free hut) on the Sila plateau, San Giovanni in Fiore/Camigliatello area (province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy), at 1545 m elevation, "Italy's Great Forest." Unstaffed free refuge in Sila National Park (300,000 ha, the largest forested plateau in southern Italy). Area of centuries-old Calabrian pines (Pinus laricio) (Patriarca della Sila, 350 years old), beeches and subalpine grassland. UNESCO 2014 Primeval Beech Forests heritage site.

The setting

Sila plateau, San Giovanni/Camigliatello, Cosenza, Calabria, 1545 m, 300,000 ha, Calabrian pines Pinus laricio Patriarca 350 years old, UNESCO 2014 primeval beech forests.