Once a wayside halt on the mountain railway. Then came the artificial lakes and it started to flourish as an angling, watersports and ski centre. It is the gateway to the Sila forests, now a National Park, where beech, chestnut and Corsican pine (descendants of trees spared by the Romans when they came for ship-building timber) reach grand heights. One ‘botanical colonnade’ has pines 500 years old. Rich wildlife browses on brilliant flora, including orchids. Townsfolk come to gather mushrooms and soft fruits. Calabria’s last wolves, about 100 of them, roam east of Camigliatello, heard but rarely seen.