Calabria is the heart of the Mezzogiorno:- the Italian for 'midday' the phrase refers to the baking sunshine in which the region basks.
There are hamlets in the Calabrian hills seemingly exclusively populated by old women in traditional black dresses, old men sat for hours outside the bar and children playing in the street. Explore its valleys on your Calabrian holiday; and you discover a culture apparently untouched by recent centuries