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Lucatello: Environmental Guide and the Casentino Forest National Park
On foot in the Casentino Forest National Park
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Casentino Forest National Park |
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The Lucatello Agritourism is found at only 5 minutes for the Institutional
headquarters for the Casentino Forest National
Park.
The owner, Maura Lucatello, is an environmental
guide and excursionist, esclusively for Casentino Forest
National Park, Montefalterona and Campigna.
She is able to give information, advice, maps, pubblications for
various itineraries, paths and hikes in the park territory of the
Casentinese area.
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| You can request a personalized
trip. Also available for the disabled
and large groups or for
families with small children. |
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| Casentino Forest National Park |
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| Casentino Forest National Park |
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A naturalistic paradise between two
regions, where wolf is back to hunt deer
and roe deer. A green oasis, where for
centuries monk communities has been cultivating silence.
This is the greenest park in Italy, covering forests for about
80% out of its surface and the whole area is plenty of water courses.
These rivers that cross Romagna valleys are called Bidente, Rabbi
and Montone. As far as Tuscan part is concerned, there are small
courses on the left side of river Arno, such as the streams called
Staggia, Fiumicello and Archiano.
At Ridracoli, where you may find one of the several museum of the
park, since 1982, it has been creating an artificial storage because
a dike built to give energy to the villages of the valley. Nowadays
there you may easily find several species of birds. The sight of
Acquacheta Falls are even more charming – they are described
in Dante's Hell; Chant XVI - or those in Scalandrini and so on.
In winter they also turn into wonderful frost traceries.
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Flora is quite various and rich: indeed there are about 1200 species.
In the warmest and driest areas there are also some Mediterranean
species to add those – more renowned – that are in Europe.
But to botanists, these woods are full of discoveries, as the recent
evidences of a rare fern and a new orchid may confirm.
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In the Park, apart the numerous species of animals, four ungulates
live there: roe deer, deer,
fallow deer and wild
boars. There are about 5000 roe deer in the whole area of
the Park.
Roe deer exemplars are few because
of the predation by wolf and also because of harsh winters and the
contests of deer. Fallow deer has been introduced since 1835 because
Grand Duke Leopoldo II's hunting.
Then, it has been reproducing and above all, in the lowest parts
of Romagna area of the Park. Nowadays, farmers hate the fallow deer
for the damages it causes in the fields. Also moufflon was introduced
during the 50's and 60's by the Corps of foresters, but nowadays
it seems it has been vanished for its weak adaptability in the environment
and after the coming back of wolf, it has also become a desirable
prey. As regards wild boar, there was no tra
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| Animals found in the Casentino Forest National Park |
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