"Tasso - Camigliatello Silano" Nature Reserve

The “Tasso-Camigliatello Silano” Nature Reserve is located near the village of Camigliatello Silano, a ski resort in the municipality of Spezzano della Sila (CS), in the Sila National Park. The reserve covers an area of over 189,000 hectares and is the last remaining part of the state-owned complex still known today as “Sila di Tasso”, the last historical evidence of a so-called “Closed Room”: a forest formerly used for shipbuilding and therefore where it was strictly forbidden to sow seeds or cut down trees.

Today, 90% of the Tasso-Camigliatello Silano Biogenetic Nature Reserve is covered by black pine, with some beech trees here and there. Black alder and sycamore maple are also found along the watercourses. Within the pine forest and in the surrounding areas, there are also sporadic chestnut, turkey oak and downy oak trees and a few silver fir trees.

Among the mammals that frequent the Tasso-Camigliatello Silano Nature Reserve are the Sila Wolf, the Calabrian black squirrel, the wild cat, the wild boar, the marten, the stone marten, the weasel and the ever-present badger.