Morano Calabro

Travellers have long been struck by Morano's shape: a cone of white houses tumbling down a hillside below its castle, which Norman Douglas likened to a waterfall and Escher drew in 1930. One of the main towns of the Pollino National Park, it controls the Campotenese pass between Calabria and Basilicata, and its maze of lanes still shows three circuits of walls.

Highlights

• Walks into the Pollino National Park, home of the rare Bosnian pine
• The castle crowning the pyramid of houses
• Collegiata di Santa Maria Maddalena and the monastery of San Bernardino
• Giudea, the old Jewish quarter, and the Greci district
• Campotenese, the mountain-pass village and site of an 1806 battle

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.