View of Gaya Ecopark with the Strait of Messina in the background
Calabria · Aspromonte · Strait of Messina

Four ways.
One single land.

A 121-hectare Ecopark in Calabria, southern Italy.

What we offer

The four ways.

Each speaks to a different audience. All are nourished by the same landscape.

Children on the red airplane of Gaya Kids's playground
For children · families · schools

Gaya Kids

Guided immersive experiences in nature, with themed workshops. Outdoor experience, free play, educational farm. On the trail of Rumi, the hermit of the woods.

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A group walking the capelvenere trail at Gaya
For those seeking personal evolution

One Health System

Innovative workshops for personal evolution inside a living landscape. Nature literacy, mindful walks, poetry yoga, EMDR, family constellations, ecology of being.

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Hammocks strung between trees at Gaya, sunset over the Strait
Time enough, where the land teaches

Living at Gaya

A stay at Gaya — just enough to let the place work inside. One dwelling per plant, one kitchen per season, two walks a day, evenings without screens. You return home with the rhythm of the land within.

The Dwellings and stays →
Evening concert in Gaya's zodiacal synergic garden
Culture from the APS

Events

The Gaya Fest in July (3 days of music, words, earth), cultural reviews, concerts in the olive grove, open days. All through the Social Promotion Association.

Discover the calendar →
Bottle of Kalanè extra virgin olive oil, label close-up on jute cloth
The product of the land

Kalanè
Gaya's olive oil.

1,500 olive trees, mostly centuries old, Ottobratica cultivar. Never treated. Never forced to produce more. Picked on the right day, milled within eight hours, organic.

11 hectares of organic grove Ottobratica cultivar 0% treatments Cellulose filter · nitrogen
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Gaya's energy

Almost self-sufficient.

The national grid hasn't reached us yet. We've turned the absence into a choice.

6 kWPhotovoltaic
15 kWStorage batteries
100%Solar hot water

Photovoltaic panels for electricity, storage batteries for the night, solar thermal panels in bathrooms, kitchen, and the Seme dwelling for hot water. There's almost always power for everything — occasionally, after several rainy days in a row, it's worth saving a bit. The light that warms your water here is the same one you see on the olive grove.

In the press

Press, TV,
recognitions.

Over the years Gaya has been told by newspapers, TV programmes, podcasts, networks of the Third Sector. Six stories that looked at us from the outside (Italian sources).

Geo
Seminare il futuro
the segment inside Gaya
31 December 2025 · RaiPlay
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Article
Eco-sustainable reality in Calabria
2024 · terranuova.it
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Bernardo Cumbo
The interview at Gaya
Mondo di Unione · YouTube
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Gente come noi
The story of Gaya
Mondo di Unione · video
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Article
An example of sustainable community
October 2025 · nuovomosaico.it
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Oscar Green Youth Award
"Digital & Sustainable Enterprise" prize
2024 · Reggio Today
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See also RIVE · Italian Network of Ecovillages CityNow · Gaya Fest 3rd edition ★ Solidale City Award 2025 — Sustainable Communities category
Support Gaya

Your 5×1000.

It costs you nothing. To Gaya, it changes everything.

If you file your taxes in Italy, choose APS Gaya — Mondo di Unione for your 5×1000 (the Italian system that lets you direct a 0.5% of your taxes to a non-profit at no extra cost). You support educational programs for children, experiential training, cultural events, care of the land. Just write our Tax ID.

APS Tax ID
92118510806
The Gaya Journal

Stories from the place,
once a month.

No promo, no spam. Just what happens here, told well.