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Canyons and monoliths
All around the Sila we can find a lot of peerless awesome geological monuments, such as the Valli Cupe Canyon and several others displaced nearby Sersale, such as Timpe Rosse, Barbaro, Inferno, Melissaro, Razzone and Crocchio. They all are real naturalistic treasures.
Monoliths are typical of this area too. Overshadowing and majestic, they lie around wild and impenetrable woods giving life to marvellous landscapes. It is a little and unknown world that will really take your breath away.
The Ruvazzo Stone (ruvazzo is the local dialectal name which people used to call the robin with), for example, represents a sort of ecological museum because of the signs, impressed on its rock, proving a human presence in this site through the centuries. There are in fact some incisions carved on this enormous stone going back to the 17th century and related above all to the phenomenon of the bandits, which is one of the things the most characterized the history of Calabria.
Other interesting traces found here refer to the several legends, handed down by mouth, telling about magical creatures and wood-nymphs, such as Arocha, a Greek nymph that it seems to be lived all around these woods. They are such beautiful stories that it definitely worth listening to them here on the spot.
Another important geological monument is the monolith known here as Petra Aggiallu. It is 18 metres high and is placed at the confluence of two little streams extremely clear-watered.
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