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The forests of the Casentino valley

The intact relationship with the nature of the Casentino in comparison to the other valleys of the province of Arezzo have made the valley in the last years destination of vacations destined to the complete relax, distant from smog and acoustic pollution of the cities.

Inside the National Park of the Forests Casentinesi you can take long walks afoot, trekking afoot or to horse, the all in the maximum relax, and to rediscover a relationship with the nature direct and only in his/her kind.

To visit the forests of Casentino

Poggio Scali, Capo d'Arno where the river Arno is born, the forest of the Lama, the natural reserve of Sasso Fratino, the dike of Ridracoli, the Castagno Miraglia and the lago of Idols. These are alone some of the itineraries that you can do inside the Park.

Even if it doesn't properly belong to the National Park, we signal in the Florentine slope of the Pratomagno to visit the neighbor biogenethic reserve of Vallombrosa with the millennial forest and the abbey of the order of the vallombrosanis.

The National Park

The name of the corporate body is National Park of the Forests Casentinesi, of the Falterona Mountain and of Campigna to point out that the protected area extends him between Tuscany and Romagna.

In comparison to the slope romagnolo that Tuscan is more dessert in the decline and gives unique landscapes to the sight, from the Mugello to the Pen Mountain.

The regal forests

The protected area traces that some regal Forests of the Alpe done Casentinese to protect from the bohemian Charles Siemoni for order of the Granduca Leopoldo II in Tuscany after centuries of intensive exploitation aside aside from the monks of Camaldoli and of the inhabitants of the valley.

The forest of Casentino came in fact as primary source of maintenance from which the firewood was drawn, the liqueurs, the essences, but also the perfumes and the ingredients for the medicinal recipes.

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