Quercus pubescens (Fagaceae) This majestic oak has grown undisturbed for 750 years near a land that was once occupied by a monastery of Capuchin friars. Due to its impressive size (trunk [...]
Riserva Gole del Sagittario is a prtected natural area established in 1997; it includes the valley where the Sagittario river flows, from Villalago to Cocullo (AQ). The area, WWF oasis since [...]
It is located in the area of the municipalities of Torre del Passero, Bolognano and Scafa. It has an extension of about 320 hectares. The presence of three different biotypes makes this place [...]
It has an extension of 300 hectares to which 200 hectares are added in the buffer zone. It covers the space between the Adriatic coast and the Majella massif at an altitude of about 90 meters [...]
The Regional Natural Reserve WWF’s Oasis of Calanchi di Atri, province of Teramo, was established in 1995 and it encloses forms of erosion inside it with different aspects, the so called [...]
The Natural Regional Reserve Pescara Springs was established in 1986 and it is located in the municipality of Popoli (PE) and its extension is of about 50 hectares omitting the 86 hectares of the [...]
One of the most important forests of the Appennines is, abetina di Rosello, is located at the border between Abruzzo and Molise and it is a reserve composed of Abies alba. What makes Rosello one [...]
(by Marta Dosi) Piana del Voltigno is located in the oriental part of Abruzzo’s Gran Sasso at an altitude of about 1400 meters. It is a valley belonging to Gran Sasso’s National Park and to [...]
Corfino is located in Conca Peligna, among the valleys created by the rivers Aterno and Saggitario, 346 m above sea level. It is a small village rich in history and tradition, blessed by spring [...]
The name of the village derives from the name “ad versus” (in fornt of, nearby) or “amnis versus” (toward the river), because of the vicinity of river Sagittario who dug the gorges overlooked by [...]
(by Marta Dosi) Valle Fondillo is located in the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park and it a wide and bright ice valley with an altitude between 1084 and 1960 above the sea level. It is [...]
Park dei Ligustri was once Villa Corsi and it is a garden recovered by the most degraded areas of Loreto Aprutino, a project of 13 years which started in 1998. The central part of the park is the [...]
