The largest monolith in Europe, Pietra Cappa

At 830 m s. Lm, in the heart of the Aspromonte stands the imposing monolith. Symbol of Calabria is a huge conglomerate composed of pebbles joined by a siliceous matrix. It dominates a promontory that rises above the valleys and wooded mountains, inhabited by shepherds and small villages. The inverted cup shape of the rock is 141 m high and is the highest in Europe. Eroded by winds and waters, it shows the age when it met asceticism and monasticism. In the nearby Monastery of San Giorgio, whose ruins we can visit, hermits who came from Constantinople settled. The schism with the Church of Rome and the affirmation of iconoclasm brought many scholars to southern Italy, with the translations of sacred texts and medical sciences. Coming to visit you will retrace their history, the spiritual motivation to pray near Pietra Cappa. Legend has it that Peter hid the guard who slapped Jesus in front of the Sanhedrin in the cavity of the monolith, they say that he can be heard screaming in anger. Ancestral voices await you.