My love for Bova is the fundamental premise of the following pages, which are a personal search of a “lost time” and I would like them to be a useful tool for those interested in the history and customs of an essentially peasant community that, starting from distant centuries, has left the signs of a civilization worthy of a place in historical memory". 

‘Il Sentiero della Civiltà Contadina’ [The Path of Agricultural Civilization] is an outdoor museum of the municipality of Bova, Greek dialect capital of Calabria that was designed and built by Saverio Micheletta.

It is a path that takes visitors down the lanes of the ancient village where the main work tools of the rural culture have been installed: water and animal- powered mill grindstones, olive oil presses, drinking troughs for animals, millstones for pressing grapes, presses for extracting essence of bergamot, and many other objects belonging to the ancient farming civilisation.