Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park

The Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna is a national park in Italy. Created in 1993, it covers an area of about 368 square kilometres (142 sq mi),[1] on the two sides of the Apennine watershed between Romagna and Tuscany, and is divided between the provinces of Forlì Cesena, Arezzo and Florence.

Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna
View of the park
Map showing the location of Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna
Map showing the location of Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna
Location of the park
Map showing the location of Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna
Map showing the location of Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna
Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park (Tuscany)
LocationEmilia-Romagna, Tuscany
Nearest cityFlorence
Coordinates43°52′03″N 11°46′46″E / 43.8675691°N 11.7793822°E / 43.8675691; 11.7793822
Area368 km2 (142 sq mi)
Established1993
Governing bodyMinistero dell'Ambiente
www.parks.it/parco.nazionale.for.casentinesi/Eindex.html
Sasso Fratino Integral Reserve
UNESCO World Heritage Site
View of Sasso Fratino Integral Reserve
CriteriaNatural: ix
Reference1237
Inscription2017 (41st Session)
Area782 ha
Buffer zone6942 ha

It extends around the long ridge, descending steeply along the parallel valleys of the Romagna side and more gradually on the Tuscan side, which has gentler slopes, especially in the Casentino area, which slopes down gradually to the broad valley of the Arno.

On 7 July 2017, in Kraków, the UNESCO Commission included the Sasso Fratino Integral Nature Reserve and the Beech Forests included in the perimeter of the park, in the World Heritage List within the serial site Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.[2]

Main sights

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View from Summit of Monte Falco

Wildlife

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A large part of the park is woodland. In the park there are areas the mountain vegetation, all types of woodland of the lower sub-mountain belt vegetation. In the forest dominated by hornbeams, turkey oaks and sessile oaks, chestnut woods (especially in the Camaldoli area and at Castagno d’Andrea on the Florentine side). In rocky places there are some of the remaining rare cork oaks.

Flora inside the park includes 48 tree and shrub species and over 1000 herbaceous species. The most valuable collection is to be found in the Mount Falco-Falterona massif.[3]

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