Parco dei Colli di Bergamo
The Parco dei Colli di Bergamo ( Park of the Bergamo Hills , in the Bergamasque dialect: Parch di Còi de Bèrghem ) is a 4700 hectare regional park founded in 1977 north of the city of Bergamo in Lombardy .
location
The regional park extends at an altitude between 244 and 1146 m slm over areas of the municipalities of Almè , Bergamo , Mozzo , Paladina , Ponteranica , Ranica , Sorisole , Torre Boldone , Valbrembo and Villa d'Almè .
vegetation
More than 2300 hectares of the regional park consist of deciduous forests. Chestnuts , locust trees and European hop beeches are predominant . Oaks , maples , black alders , willows , black poplars and plane trees are smaller, but also characteristic . Red oak and tulip trees were planted by humans, as well as black and Weymouth pines for reforestation .