Calabria is known for the beauty of its landscape, its food and for its historical connections with Ancient Greece. The region was one of the richest colonies of Magna Graecia,_° and Hellenic culture is still deeply entrenched in some areas, where Greek-based dialects are still spoken today.

Not many, however, know about the connection between Calabria and another neighbor of ours, Albania, a connection that has in the village of Civita and its dialect one of its most vivid representatives. Civita is a small village of about 1,000, in the Cosenza province of Calabria, located in the natural reserve of the Gole del Raganello, within the National Park of Pollino.