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Giardino e Arboreto Appenninico di Pescasseroli is located 1200 m above sea level, at the Pescasseroli Visit Centre, one of the most important of the Abruzzo National Park. It extends on a surface of 4370 square metres and includes the most important speciemens of the flora of Abruzzo in different habitats according to the family of origin. There are also exotic plants, a pond and an arboretum, divided into a beech forest, a Turkey oak forest, an oak forest, a lime and hornbeam forest and a holm oak forest. Among the trees and shrubs, there are squirrels, woodpeckers, titmice and finches, who spontaneously colonised the garden. The centre includes also the Museo Naturalistico and Parco Faunistico, with wounded or inkured animals who could no longer live in the wild, like a Marsican brown bear, a buzzard, two Apennine wolves and three venisons.

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