UNESCO: Pollino National Park

Pollino National Park is a national park in southern Italy that straddles the regions of Basilicata and Calabria. It is Italy's largest national park, covering 1,925.65 square kilometers.

The park includes the Pollino and Orsomarso massifs, which are part of the southern Apennine Mountains. The park's highest point is Serra Dolcedorme, which is 2,267 meters high.

The park is home of the oldest Europeen tree, a Heldreich's pine estimated 1,230 years old.

Rivers and streams include the Lao, Sinni, Coscile, Garga, and Raganello. Wildlife includes golden eagle, Italian wolf, roe deer, black woodpecker, chough, peregrine falcon, red kite, lanner falcon, Dryomys nitedula, Egyptian vulture, European otter and deer.