Foreste Casentinesi National Park

Foreste Casentinesi National Park
Dense forests characterize the national park
Coordinates: 43 ° 50 ′ 36.4 "  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 27.9"  E
Location:	Forlì-Cesena , Arezzo , Florence , Italy
Next city:	Bibbiena , Santa Sofia
Surface:	368.43 km²
Founding:	July 12, 1993
Address:	Duck Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi Palazzo Vigiani via Guido Brocchi, 7 52015 Pratovecchio (AR)

The National Park Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna forms the mountain ridge between Romagna and Tuscany .

geography

Its territory includes many mountains of the Apennines and numerous valleys whose rivers flow to both the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian Sea . The national park stretches within the boundaries of three historical areas: Romagna, Casentino and part of Mugello . Today these areas belong to the two provinces of Forlì-Cesena and Arezzo and to the metropolitan city of Florence .

Flora and fauna

Sweet chestnuts are partially pure stands in the national park. The fauna offers a good population of fallow deer and red deer , roe deer and wild boar . They are the prey of the wolf , which has a healthy population in the national park. Other animals are foxes , hares , martens , eagle owls and golden eagles .

Attractions

• Santuario della Verna in Chiusi della Verna , Sanctuary of Francis of Assisi

literature

• Guido Ceccolini, Anna Cenerini: Tuscany: Natural Parks and Protected Areas , Regione Toscana (ed.), Editore Il mio Amico, Roccastrada 2007, pp. 324–335, ISBN 88-88345-10-8

Web links

Commons : Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• National Park website (Italian, English)
• Pages of the parking authority on Parks.it
• World Database on Protected Areas - Foreste Casentinesi National Park (English)