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At first, even Italian speakers might feel a little lost here. Locals speak a weird-sounding Slavic dialect called Arbereshe.

Perched on a rocky cliff within the wild Pollino National Park, once inhabited by bandits and outlaws, this tiny hamlet of barely 1,000 people is what “authentic” Calabria is all about.
Old houses are connected by circular narrow alleys dubbed “wrinkles” and have scary-looking chimneys believed to keep evil at bay.