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Camigliatello Silano in Calabria, Wild Mushrooms and the Italian Grand Tour Torre Camigliati, an 18th century hunting lodge in Camigliatello Silano, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Camigliatello Silano in Calabria, Wild Mushrooms and the Italian Grand Tour

Camigliatello Silano is an Alpine-like village in Calabria in Southern Italy, just a short drive from Cosenza, the provincial capital. A food lovers’ paradise that’s much loved for its wonderful wild mushrooms, Camigliatello was a stop on the Italian grand tour and is a fantastic base for exploring the lakes and forests of Sila National Park.

When autumn arrives in the northern hemisphere, no matter where we are in the world my thoughts turn to Calabria – Italy’s southernmost mainland region and one of the country’s most off-the-beaten-track destinations – and Camigliatello Silano and its 50 year-old October wild mushroom festival, Sagra del Fungo, held from 11-13 October this year.

My annual yearning to return to Calabria to road trip the region, stopping at unspoilt beaches, picturesque national parks and atmospheric hilltop towns, was helped along by a meal at a new Italian restaurant yesterday here in Siem Reap. Il Vicolo is helmed by a local chef and his Rome-born business partner who imports Italian products such as Calabria’s wonderful ’nduja, which I got to savour for the first time in a long while.

A Calabrian specialty, ’nduja is a spicy, spreadable sausage paste made from roasted Calabrian red peppers, spices, and pork belly, shoulder, and tripe. One of our most memorable Calabrian eating experiences on our first trip in 2008 to research the first English-language Calabria guidebook was trying ’nduja for the first time. The other: overdosing on heavenly truffles and porcini mushrooms as guests of a baron and baroness at La Tavernetta in Camigliatello Silano.

For the last decade I’ve been predicting that Calabria will be the next Puglia, the next destination to be ‘discovered’ by travellers. This has to be Calabria’s year. Get there now and when you do go gorge yourself on mushroom ravioli in Camigliatello Silano and ’nduja in Spilinga.

Camigliatello Silano in Calabria, Wild Mushrooms and the Italian Grand Tour

If the idea of checking into the baronial residence of Torre Camigliati, pictured above, isn’t reason enough to entice you to Camigliatello Silano in Calabria, Italy’s southernmost mainland region, then delicious local specialties should be, such as local truffles and porcini mushrooms, which come in all forms from fresh wild mushrooms in season (right now) to pastes and oils, along with smoked cheeses, prosciutto, preserves, and Calabrian wine.

Local specialties cram the shelves of shops on Camigliatello Silano’s main street, while the town also plays host to a number of food festivals, including the autumn mushroom festival, Sagra del Fungo, established in 1969, and a potato festival, Sagra della Patata della Sila, held annually since 1978. The events including tastings, stalls selling local crafts and other products from the region and greater Calabria, as well as folk dancing and music.

Other than sampling scrumptious Calabrian specialties, there are plenty of things to do in Camigliatello Silano and the surrounding area, including hiking, horseriding, mountain biking, canoeing, boating, fishing, or, in winter, skiing and snowboarding. Just make sure to fill a picnic basket with local treats before you set out.

One of the many things that make Camigliatello Silano such a fascinating destination for us though – as you’d expect from a couple who started a travel site inspired by the grand tour – is Calabria’s grand tour history, which you can learn about at Torre Camigliati and Parco Old Calabria.

The Grand Tour in Calabria

From the 18th century onwards, intrepid travellers set off from England, and later North America, on their European grand tours. Their aim was to discover Europe, and Italy in particular, and by doing so to educate themselves – through language, archaeology, painting, music, and literature – in the art of knowing and of being cosmopolitan.

It was commonly thought that most travellers on a grand tour curtailed their epic years-long journey at Naples, with only the most intrepid adventurous travellers venturing by sea as far afield as Sicily, skipping Calabria due to its poor road network and roving bandits.

English writer Norman Douglas (1868-1952) was one of the more fearless grand tourists and he spent a considerable amount of time in Calabria, travelling the length and breadth of the region in 1907, 1911 and again in 1937, observing, interviewing, and reflecting as he went, and maintaining scrupulously detailed travel diaries in the process.

Calabria, after all, as challenging as it could be, was the perfect destination for grand tourists. The region once belonged to the mighty Magna Graecia civilisation and had a long association with the ancient Greeks and Romans. Calabria was rich in archaeological treasures, dotted with exquisite Byzantine churches, Carthusian monasteries, abbeys and cathedrals, which hid a wealth of vibrant frescoes, illuminated manuscripts and splendid paintings.

Calabria offered an array of landscapes of the kind that the grand tourists, romantics at heart, found so alluring, from craggy coves and creamy beaches to wooden forests and dramatic valleys, along with mysterious mountaintop villages, home to mystical religions and secret societies, that their insatiable curiosity propelled them to explore.

A typical grand tourist, Douglas fell in love with the untamed nature of Calabria, its complex layers of history, unspoilt natural beauty, its proud people, and their intriguing traditional customs.

He wrote: “… it was exhilarating to traverse these middle heights with their aerial views over the Ionian and down olive-covered hillsides towards the wide valley of Crati and the lofty Pollino range, now swimming in a midsummer haze.”

Douglas’ book Old Calabria (1915) is probably the most comprehensive travel narrative ever written about Calabria. Other travellers who traversed Calabria included Edward Lear, Alexandre Dumas, Henry Swinburne and George Gissing.

Parco Old Calabria at Torre Camigliati

As part of a larger project to revive the grand tour in Calabria and other parts of Southern Italy, wild parks, gardens and other places have been dedicated as Parchi Letterari or literary parks.

These literary parks are atmospheric locations encountered by great authors and poets, from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa to Luigi Pirandello, that so inspired them that they created literary works that immortalised the place.

The leafy parkland of Torre Camigliati, the grand ancestral home and hunting lodge of the noble Barraco family, is one such parco letterario. What does this actually mean for visitors to Parco Old Calabria or guests who check into the former baronial residence that is Torre Camigliati?

It means you can wander the beautiful grounds to your heart’s content, inhale the aromatic air, and stop to smell the wildflowers, preferably with a sketchbook, book of poetry – or a copy of Norman Douglas’ Old Calabria, available for sale at the gift store in the cultural centre at Torre Camigliati.

The splendid stone building also has a library, multimedia centre, and a photo exhibition inside illustrating the Calabrian grand tour. To take full advantage of the experience, check in to Torre Camigliati for a couple of nights then grab a copy of their Calabrian grand tour Itinerary and set off on your own adventure.

Where to Stay in Camigliatello Silano

Torre Camigliati

Our top recommendation for where to stay in Camigliatello Silano is undoubtedly the handsome 18th-century baronial hunting lodge, Torre Camigliati, set within a bucolic scene of pristine forest and fields dotted with wildflowers. The rooms in the stone building are surprisingly cosy, even in autumn and winter, the inviting den has an open fireplace and lots of fascinating books begging to be browsed, and the gardens are absolutely gorgeous, making the lodge a grand place to hang out for a few days of walking, reading and mushroom picking. Aside from accommodation in the main building, there are apartments with fireplaces and kitchens.
Parco Old Calabria, Camigliatello Silano

Hotel Aquila & Edelweiss

If you can’t get into Torre Camigliati or prefer to be in town, Hotel Aquila & Edelweiss is a charming, family-owned and family-ran hotel that has all the comforts of home. The old-fashioned feel extends to the restaurant, which is home to some of the best Calabrian food in the area; see below. We love the curved retro bar, vinyl banquettes and vintage ceiling lights.
Viale Stazione 15, Camigliatello Silano

Where to Eat in Camigliatello Silano

La Tavernetta

What was once a rustic old tavern has been transformed into the most modern of Camigliatello Silano’s restaurants – and one of Calabria’s best restaurants – by father-son team Pietro and Emanuele Lecce. Bold colours adorn the walls and bold flavours are evident on the plates. What remains of the old is respect for fresh local ingredients and respect for Calabrian culinary traditions and hospitality – evident in the complimentary snacks and pre-meal wine tasting in the cellar. Ask for recommendations but hope that the four-course mushroom menu is available and that it includes the porcini salad of paper-thin mushrooms drowning in divine virgin olive oil and salt; raviolini with porcini mushrooms and truffles, which have been on the menu since 1988; fried potatoes with porcini mushrooms and truffles; and the main course, a massive, magnificent, roasted whole mushroom, which is the best mushroom we’ve ever tasted in our lives. Or, tell the chef who do his thing and just let them feed you. There’s a breathtaking vintage wine list as well.
Campo San Lorenzo 14, Camigliatello Silano

Hotel Aquila & Edelweiss

It’s no secret that the best traditional Calabrian cooking in town is here at this family owned hotel. Chef Angela Valente knows all the secrets of the mountains. Soups such as her zucchini, chick pea or borlotti bean are the stuff of legend, as is any pasta that’s handmade that day, especially her ravioli.
Viale Stazione 15, Camigliatello Silano

Things to Do in Camigliatello Silano and Surrounds

Learn About Immigration at La Nave della Sila

Stunningly set in a beautifully renovated barn at Parco Old Calabria, Camigliatello Silano’s main cultural attraction is this superb museum of immigration, ‘The Ship of Sila’. Through the innovative use of striking graphics, photographs, and atmospheric audio and video, the fascinating exhibition charts the mass emigration of Calabrians to the USA, Australia, Canada and Brazil. An interactive kiosk allows visitors to explore their family histories, and there’s a library and café.
Parco Old Calabria, Torre Camigliati, Camigliatello Silano.

Hike Sila Grande National Park

Hiking is one of the most popular park activities and a small booklet, A Piedi in Sila Grande (Italian only), available from Pro Loco offices, sets out detailed itineraries for walking and hiking in the park. Hikes begin, for example, from Camigliatello at Torre Camigliati (1hr to Croce di Magara), at Cecita (1.5 hrs to Serra La Vulga at 1298m), Moccone (1.5 hrs to Serra La Guardia), and Fossiata (1.5 hrs to Macchialonga at an altitude of 1311m). The ProLoco office or hotel staff can connect you with professional guides for hiking, horseriding or mountain biking excursions through the park.

Gawk at the Giant Ancient Trees

Wander under the incredible canopy of Calabria’s tallest and oldest trees at I Giganti Della Sila Reserva Naturelle just outside the village of Camigliatello Silano, along a pot-holed road (muddy after winter), near Croce di Magara. Thought to be an ancient species, the magnificent pine trees here are said to be some 400 years old and up to 45m high and some have a two-metre wide base. There are 56 pines, in addition to maple, beech and chestnut trees. Camigliatello Silano also has a chestnut festival. Sign-posted, it’s 3km off the Cosenza-Crotone Road,a 10-minute walk from the car park.

Ski and Snowboard at Campi da Ski

Just a kilometre from Camigliatello, this ski complex offers winter-sports facilities, ski schools, a fully enclosed modern chair lift, and you can rent ski equipment from the wooden cabins in the car park. It can’t compete with Northern Italy’s ski centres, but a day here can be fun. The drawcards are the beautiful forest setting and proximity to Camigliatello Silano.

For more ideas to exploring the region see our suggested road trip routes and Calabria itineraries. Have you been to Camigliatello Silano? We’d love to hear your recommendation for where to stay and eat and things to do in Camigliatello Silano.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

Merry Christmas!! X

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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