The Aveto Park, Ligurien

The Aveto Park - details and images

The Aveto Park, located in the Tigullio hinterland, protects one of the most beautiful and important areas of the Apennines of Liguria. The territory is protected by over 3,000 hectares and includes three valleys, Valea d'Aveto, Valea Graveglia and Sturla Valley, each of which has specific features: high mountain landscapes, pastures and extensive beech forests in the Valea d'Aveto; grazing pastures, chestnuts, hazelnut plantations, orchards and olive groves in Valle Sturla and a well-preserved rural landscape with olive groves and vineyards and, above all, a wide variety of rocks and minerals, and consequently, careers and mines, Graveglia.
Man has modeled the territory by creating environments for plant cultivation and animal breeding, which is why there are so many meadows, pastures, terraces, chestnuts, and almonds.
The same natural forests have been modified so we will find: beech, oak, mixed hornbeam and mojdrean hornbeam, fluvial ravines and avalanches.
Insectivorous plants grow on the shores of lakes in the Lame Forest, the heart of the Aveto Regional Natural Park. The landscape is dominated by the major peaks of Apennine Ligurian, between 1,600 and 1,800 meters above sea level, reminiscent of the grazing central areas of Central Europe, maintained by bovine activities with the production of typical cheese.
The wide variety of environments within the Park also encouraged the conservation of rich and valuable fauna.
The more appealing presence is definitely Wolf, who has recently returned to the valley of the park with some people, over a slow but implacable recolonization of the Apennines species. Today, Lupo, through Liguria, has returned to various alpine places. In view of the remarkable suggestion that this great carnivore inspires, observations and travels on its routes are one of the most desirable activities for Park Guides.

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