Calabria constitutes the end of the Italian peninsula; it limits the north with the region of Basilicata, to the west with the Tirrenean Sea, the northeast with the gulf of Tarento (Taranto), to the east with the sea Jónico and to the south with the Straits of Messina that separates it of the island of Sicily.
From the geographic point of view it presents/displays a very precise individuality, had to his peripheral position and almost of isolation with respect to the rest of Italy, to its characteristic form and its morphologic structure. Of average extension, it has population somewhat superior to the 2.000.000 of inhabitants, with a density elevated enough, but inferior to the average national.
The Region of Calabria has many different passages. There are sea, forest and mountains. Calabria is to the south, in the end of the boot, stivale, formed from the Italian peninsula. Winter sports can be practiced or be arrived in just a short time until precious localities next to the sea. The morphologic structure of the Calabria is rather complex. The relief appears in general under the aspect of bulks and groups isolated, separated by narrow valleys or steps. In the limit with the Basilicata the bulk of the Pollino is raised, that culminates to 2,267 m.s.n.m. in the Dolcedorme mountain range, and whose abutments arrive at the soroeste, until the passage of the Scalone (740 m.s.n.m.) where the Apennines Lucanos finish and begin the Calabrian Apennines, with the coastal mountain range (or Paolana), that extends until the course under the Savuto river, between the tirrena coastal strip and the deep Valley of the Crati. This one last one separates the Coastal Mountain range of the Sila, estensa mesetaria region that culminates to 1,928 m.s.n.m. in the Botte Donato. The mountainous chain of the Apennines extends by all the surface of Calabria and provides to the land a generally rough aspect, with exception of some marshy plains and a fertile coastal strip.