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Aspromonte

Aspromonte is a mountain massif in the province of Reggio Calabria

Province of Reggio Calabria

The Province of Reggio Calabria is a Provinces of Italy in the Calabria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Reggio Calabria.It has an area of 3,183 km?, and a total population of 565,866 ....
(Calabria

Calabria

Calabria , is a Regions of Italy in Southern Italy Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea....
, southern Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
). The name means "rough mountains", so named by the farmers who found its steep terrain and rocky soil difficult to cultivate. It overlooks the Strait of Messina

Strait of Messina

The Strait of Messina is the narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy....
, being limited by the Ionian

Ionian Sea

The Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy, including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula, to the west, by southwestern Albania, including Saranda and Himara, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east....
and Tyrrhenian Sea

Tyrrhenian Sea

The Tyrrhenian Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy.It is bounded by Corsica and Sardinia , Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, and Calabria , and Sicily ....
s and by the Pietrace river. The highest peak is the Montalto (1,956 m). The constituting rocks are mostly gneiss

Gneiss

Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of Rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic rock processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous rock or Sedimentary rock rocks....
, and mica

Mica

The mica group of sheet silicate minerals includes several closely related materials having highly perfect basal cleavage. All are monoclinic with a tendency towards pseudo-hexagonal crystals and are similar in chemical composition....
schist

Schist

The schists form a group of Erins metamorphic rocks, chiefly notable for the preponderance of lamellar minerals such as micas, Chlorite group, talc, hornblende, graphite, and others....
s, which form characteristic overlapping terraces.

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Aspromonte is a mountain massif in the province of Reggio Calabria

Province of Reggio Calabria

Calabria

Italy

Strait of Messina

The Strait of Messina is the narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy....
, being limited by the Ionian

Ionian Sea

Tyrrhenian Sea

Gneiss

Mica

Schist

Aspromonte National Park

Aspromonte National Park is situated in the southern section of the Apennines, in Calabria, Italy.The Park lies near the sea and includes mountain summits reaching the 2,000 meters of height ....
.

In the short coastal strip citrus fruits, vine

Vine

A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
and olive

Olive

The Olive is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Lebanon, Syria and the maritime parts of Turkey and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea....
s are grown, while at high elevations the vegetation is composed mostly by oak

Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
and holm oak

Holm Oak

The Holm Oak , also called Holly Oak or Evergreen Oak, is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It takes its name from wikt:holm, an ancient name for holly....
under the 1,000 m, and by pine

Pine

Pines are Pinophyta trees in the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species....
, Sicilian fir

Sicilian Fir

Sicilian Fir is a fir native to the Monti Nebrodi and Madonie mountains in northern Sicily. It is a medium-size evergreen Pinophyta tree growing to 15-25 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m....
and beech

Beech

Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe and North America.The leaf of beech trees are entire or sparsely toothed, from 5–15 cm long and 4–10 cm broad....
over it. Olive trees grow in abundance. Also, the rare bergamot

Bergamot orange

File:Dscf0545.jpgFile:Bergamotfruit.jpgThe bergamot is a small and roughly pear-shaped fragrant citrus fruit native to Southeast Asia. Today it is also commercially grown in Calabria, Italy....
, the lemony-yellow fruit used in perfumes and flavoring for Earl Grey tea, only grows in the southern Aspromonte.

Points of attraction include the Gambarie ski resort (1,311 m) and the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain lies in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria and is an important centre of faith....
, in the comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
of San Luca

San Luca

San Luca is a comune in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italy region Calabria, located about 100 km southwest of Catanzaro and about 35 km east of Reggio Calabria....
. Part of the population has retained Greek

Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
culture and language (the so-called Griko language

Griko language

Griko, sometimes spelled Grico, is a Modern Greek dialect which is spoken by people in the Magna Graecia region in southern Italy, and it is otherwise known as the Grecanic language....
).

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italians military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and had to flee Italy after a failed insurrection....
, landing here with 3,000 volunteers in his march towards Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, was defeated and captured on August 29 1862 in the Battle of Aspromonte

Battle of Aspromonte

The Battle of Aspromonte, named for the mountain near Reggio Calabria in southern Italy and fought August 29 1862, is an inconclusive episode of the Italian unification process....
.