Cupone Visitor Centre

The Cupone Visitor Centre, close to Lake Cecita, in the municipality of Spezzano della Sila (CS), was created by adapting the spaces around the old state-owned sawmill into an environmental education centre with nature trails, wildlife observatories, a museum, a geological garden and a botanical garden with 115 species indigenous to the Calabrian mountains, accessible to the disabled and the blind thanks to the use of panels and mp3 audio files explaining the various essences. The Cupone Centre is located near a picnic area, making it one of the most popular areas in the Sila National Park. Through the Cupone Sila centre, you can access the area where the so-called “Giants of Sila”, the monumental, centuries-old trees that make up the reserve of the same name, stand.