The Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna is a national park in Italy. Created in 1993, it covers an area of about , on the two sides of the Apennine watershed between Romagna and Tuscany, and is divided between the provinces of Forlì Cesena, Arezzo and Florence. 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

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, in Krakow, the

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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

Main sights

* Campigna -

white fir ''Abies concolor'', the white fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae. This tree is native to the mountains of western North America, including the Cascade Range and southern Rocky Mountains, and into the isolated mountain ranges ...

* Acquacheta - waterfall, mentioned in

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian people, Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', origin ...

's ''Comedy'' * Badia Prataglia - beech wood * Camaldoli - monastery * Fiumicello - mill * Valbonella Botanical Gardens - botanical garden near Corniolo * Siemoni Arboretum - museum and historic arboretum located in Badia Prataglia * Tredozio- Tramazzo River Valley *

Chiusi della Verna Chiusi della Verna is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about east of Florence and about north of Arezzo. It is in the Casentino traditional region. Chiusi della Verna borders the foll ...

- Franciscan places *

Castagno d'Andrea Castagno d'Andrea is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of San Godenzo, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany (Italy). It is located within the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park. It was the birthplace of the painte ...

- chestnut wood *

Ridracoli 300px, The lake of Ridracoli. Ridracoli is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Bagno di Romagna, province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna (northern Italy). In the nearby is a 103.5 m-high dam on the Bidente river, with a lake. It is part o ...

- lake and dam *Foresta della Lama - wildlife *

Sasso Fratino Sasso means stone in Italian. Notable people with the surname include: * Ana Sasso (born c.1963), Croatian former beauty pageant contestant and model * Cinzia Sasso (born 1956), Italian journalist *Guidina Dal Sasso (born 1958), Italian cross countr ...

- first integral nature reserve in Italy (1959) *Springs of

Tiber River The Tiber ( ; it, Tevere ; la, Tiberis) is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where it is joined by the Ri ...

Mount Fumaiolo Mount Fumaiolo ( it, Monte Fumaiolo) is a mountain of the northern Apennines range of Italy located in the southernmost corner of the Emilia-Romagna region, c. 70 km from the town of Cesena. It is at the border Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany. ...

*Springs of Arno River -

Monte Falterona Monte Falterona is a mountain in the Tuscan-Romagnolo Apeninnes, in the Casentino traditional region, standing at 1,654 m. It is part of the Casentino forests, Monte Falterona and Campigna National Park. The peak is crossed by the borders of t ...

Wildlife

A large part of the park is

woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...

. 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 Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the flowering plant genus ''Carpinus'' in the birch family Betulaceae. The 30–40 species occur across much of the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Origin of names The common English name ''hornbeam' ...

, 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.http://www.parcoforestecasentinesi.it/pfc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=29&jos_change_template=pfc_territorio&lang=en flora * Apennines wolf * Barn owl *

Boar The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is ...

* Common buzzard *

Eagle Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 68 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, j ...

Eurasian badger The European badger (''Meles meles''), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to almost all of Europe. It is classified as least concern on the IUCN Red List as it has a wide range and a large s ...

Fallow deer ''Dama'' is a genus of deer in the subfamily Cervinae, commonly referred to as fallow deer. Name The name fallow is derived from the deer's pale brown colour. The Latin word ''dāma'' or ''damma'', used for roe deer, gazelles, and antelopes ...

* Marten *

Red deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or hart, and a female is called a hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of we ...

* Red fox *

Roe deer The roe deer (''Capreolus capreolus''), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer. The male of the species is sometimes referred to as a roebuck. The roe is a small deer, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapt ...

Tawny owl The tawny owl (''Strix aluco''), also called the brown owl, is commonly found in woodlands across Europe to western Siberia, and has seven recognized subspecies. It is a stocky, medium-sized owl, whose underparts are pale with dark streaks, a ...

References

External links

Official website

{{Authority control National parks of Italy Apennine Mountains Parks in Tuscany Parks in Emilia-Romagna Protected areas established in 1993 Protected areas of the Apennines 1993 establishments in Italy Primeval Beech Forests in Europe