In the heart of Bova, inside the elegant mansion of the historic Palazzo Tuscano, is the Aspromonte National Park Visitor Center. This fascinating building, expertly restored, is spread over three floors and houses a rich exhibition itinerary dedicated to the Grecanica Area, of which Bova is the moral and cultural capital.
The center is designed to tell, through images, tools of agropastoral life, musical objects, documents and testimonies, the deep soul of the linguistic minority of the Greeks of Calabria. Visiting it, it is possible to take an authentic immersive journey into the language, religious rites, folk customs and material culture that still characterize this unique cultural island in the heart of Aspromonte.
Among the center’s treasures are an extraordinary series of 15 large-format photographs by Gerhard Rohlfs, the famous German linguist who studied the Greek of Calabria, and the prestigious Mosino Library, a collection of some 5,000 volumes devoted entirely to Grecanica culture.
The Palazzo Tuscano – Visitor Center is not only an information point of the Park, but a real museum of Grecanic memory, capable of combining nature and identity, preservation and popularization, in a cultural path full of meaning and beauty.
