Foresta dei violini

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The Foresta dei violini (String Forest) is a 2,700 hectare large mountain forest in the Dolomites in the field of Italian municipality of San Martino di Castrozza in the Eastern Province of Trento . The violin forest is part of the 19,100 hectare Parco Naturale Paneveggio - Pale di San Martino nature reserve . The spruce forest is the largest contiguous forest in the Italian Alps . The forest lies at an altitude between 1500 and 2000  m slm

The Venetians already used wood for their shipbuilding. The forest has become famous since the Renaissance for the use of the hazel trees growing there for violin making , which is also where it got its name from. In the 17th century the famous violin maker Antonio Stradivari from Cremona , who later became an envoy from his family, visited the Paneveggio spruce forest to buy the best trunks there.

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