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I always preferred to explore remote lands . Then I realised that , just around the corner , there ’ s a complex world to discover that I always looked at with detachment . Until now I had explored the world as a Calabrian , it was time to look at my homeland with the stateless eyes of a world traveller .
The Route 106 runs parallel to a white fine sand beach , almost desert , where one can enjoy the sea in freedom and solitude . On the other side , over the railway , amongst the hinterland , the peaks of the first reliefs stand out harshly , rearguards of white clay reflect the light of the pitiless sun on the cove ’ s waters , amongst yellow fields punctuated by olive trees .
“ Aspro ” refers not only to its roughness , but derives from Greek “ aspros ”, white , the colour by which the first colonisers named the mountain for the dazzling white clay they first came across . The landscape
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