{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "calabria-it",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "PDO-1",
  "GC-3",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "notes": "harvest_windows: empty on purpose. The PDO specification defines the harvest by the fruit’s colour, turning from green to yellow (docs/sources/PDO-1-masaf-bergamotto-reggio-calabria.md:25), not by months; no filed source gives months.",
 "place": {
  "value": "Calabria (province of Reggio Calabria)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:234",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the place name as data/1b/harvest.json spells it; the Wikidata item is Q1458 (Calabria)"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": "the coastal comuni of the province of Reggio Calabria named in the PDO specification, from Scilla to Monasterace",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "PDO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/PDO-1-masaf-bergamotto-reggio-calabria.md:19",
  "quote": "La zona di produzione della denominazione di origine protetta \"Bergamotto di Reggio Calabria - olio essenziale\", comprende l'area vogata della provincia di Regione Calabria, comprendente i seguenti comuni: Scilla, Villa San Giovanni, Campo Calabro, Fiumara",
  "confidence": "A",
  "sources": [
   "GC-3"
  ],
  "note": "GC-3: “cultivated almost exclusively along the southern coast of the Calabria region” (docs/sources/GC-3-navarra-2015-bergamot-oil.md:16)"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "Italy",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:235",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": 39,
  "lon": 16.5,
  "precision": "a representative point for the region (Wikidata P625), not an orchard; the PDO zone is the coastal comuni of the province of Reggio Calabria",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q1458 (Calabria) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:238",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "Europe/Rome",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:241",
  "quote": "IT\t+4154+01229\tEurope/Rome",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [],
 "traditions": {
  "value": "the protected designation of origin “Bergamotto di Reggio Calabria – olio essenziale”, with its own register of orchards and control body",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "PDO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/PDO-1-masaf-bergamotto-reggio-calabria.md:16",
  "quote": "La denominazione di origine protetta \" Bergamotto di Reggio Calabria - olio essenziale\" è riservata esclusivamente all'olio essenziale estratto con il metodo cold pressed dal frutto Citrus Bergamia Risso nelle varietà Femminello, Castagnaro e Fantastico, prodotti negli impianti iscritti nel corrispondente albo dei bergamotteti che sarà tenuto presso l'organismo di controllo.",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "a legal designation; the specification gives no history"
 },
 "botanicals": [
  "citrus-bergamia"
 ],
 "media": [
  "or-7-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-bergamot",
  "globe": "/materials#global-origins",
  "map": "/materials#world-map",
  "harvest_table": "/materials#global-origins"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Calabria is the bergamot’s country on record: the designation’s zone is the coast of the province of Reggio Calabria, from Scilla round the toe of Italy to Monasterace.",
  "body": [
   "No harvest months are given: the specification has the fruit picked when its colour turns from green to yellow, and no filed source names months. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for the region, not an orchard, and the clock beside it is local time."
  ]
 }
}