Motorway through the Pollino Mountains from Mormanno to Lauria : Sicily to Ukraine part 17

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Having left Castrovillari in the morning and started my drive through the wonderful Pollino Mountains, I continue my drive between the exit for Mormanno and the shopping centre at Lauria in Basilicata which I would consider to be the northern end of the Pollino range.

I particularly like this range of mountains, I comment a couple of times that I find the views and drive even better than those in the Alps! This is the border of Calabria and Basilicata in southern Italy and in 1992 it was included in the Pollino National Park which I believe is the largest national park in Europe (I may be wrong about that). The range and park is named after Monte Pollino 2,248 m but the highest point is Serra Dolcedorme at 2,267 m which overlooks the plain of Sibari. Despite the height of these mountains, have a look at a map and see how close it is to the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas. The Pollino is home to a large number of interesting species including wolves and I very much hope that I will get the chance to see more of it!

This is part of a very long journey in May and June 2013 from Brucoli in Sicily to Bełżec on the Polish - Ukrainian border. From there I travelled to the UK - so the journey was much longer but I did not film the part from eastern Poland to Norwich (UK).