Oasi Dynamo
San Marcello Piteglio
Nature
San Jacopo Orchard Park
Pistoia
The Black Lake Bivouac
Abetone Cutigliano
Abetone Botanical forest garden
Abetone Cutigliano
Ferriere Suspension Bridge
San Marcello Piteglio
Acquerino Forest, a Biogenetic Reserve
Sambuca Pistoiese
Madonnina icehouse
Pistoia
Black Lake
Abetone Cutigliano
The Forest of Teso
San Marcello Piteglio
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Oasi Dynamo
WWF nature reserve covering over 1,000 hectares in the Pistoia Apennines, at an altitude of 1,100 meters, where nature and sustainability converge.
Located in the municipality of San Marcello Piteglio, in the heart of the Pistoia Mountains, Oasi Dynamo is a WWF-affiliated nature reserve that spans over 1,000 hectares in the Tuscan Apennines, reaching up to 1,100 meters above sea level. Once a hunting reserve, it is now a unique model in Italy of environmental sustainability and social responsibility, where wolves, deer, rare plants, and many other species live freely in harmony.…
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San Jacopo Orchard Park
This truly unique park, to be both admired and "tasted", is to be found in Pistoia. There are more than 200 different types of fruit, mostly local Tuscan ones.
The San Jacopo Orchard Park is a park which is unique in its kind, where you can walk, relax and enjoy eating tasty fruit, even picking them directly from the trees. The Park covers roughly two hectares of cultivated land with over three hundred plants, laid out in rows, through which you can actually walk while appreciating an original and naturalistic pathway. The project It was thanks to the bequest made…
Pistoia
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The Black Lake Bivouac
This mountain lodge stands on the Black Lake's edge, a few minutes on foot from the Flat Lake.
The Black Lake Bivouac stands 1730 above sea level in the natural hollow below the 'Alpe Tre Potenze', at the very top of the 'Valle del Sestaione'. It is on the edge of the Black Lake and a few minutes away on foot from 'Lago Piatto'. It has 16 dormitory beds with a fully-equippped kitchen for those staying the night. In summer, it has running water, which it doesn't have…
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Abetone Botanical forest garden
A path through colours and fragrances in Pistoia's Upper Apennines, created in order to safeguard Biodiversity. It is a part of the Naturalistic Itinerary of the Pistoia Mountains' Ecomuseum.
Thanks to its low temperatures and to the area's rather special microclimate, you can admire and enjoy different types of alpine varieties which, in this part of the Apennines, have reached - regarding their diffusion - their most southern limit. Particularly interesting is the red fir, proof of the existence of ancient populations, in the nearby Riserva di Campolino: this fir, that still today regrows spontaneously, originally came from the…
Abetone Cutigliano
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Ferriere Suspension Bridge
A fascinating steel structure, 227 meters long and 36 metres high, in San Marcello Piteglio.
The Ferriere Suspension Bridge is a pedestrian walkway that connects the two sides of the river Lima, between Mammiano Basso and Popiglio in the municipality of San Marcello Piteglio. It was inaugurated in 1923 in order to reach the SMI factories in Mammiano Basso more easily. Today it is one of the territory’s main attractions, to live with bated breath. It is realized with structures that rest on four steel cables held tightly in…
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Acquerino Forest, a Biogenetic Reserve
The Acquerino forest is an environment of extraordinary biodiversity. The area includes an archaeological park. It is part of the Stone Itinerary od Ecomuseo della Montagna Pistoiese.
It is a vast forest characterized by centuries-old beech woods and glades where rare herbaceous plants can be spotted. It is also a biogenetic reserve. Its rich fauna includes deer (reintroduced in 1950’s), golden eagles and other birds of prey. In the area, an archaeological park was brought to light thanks to a combined effort by the Ecomuseum of the Pistoia Mountains, the Soprintendenza Archeologica, the Italian Forest Service and…
Sambuca Pistoiese
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Madonnina icehouse
The Madonnina icehouse stands majestically along the grand ducal road near the settlement of Le Piastre and is part of the Ice trail tour of the Ecomuseum of Pistoia Mountains.
The Madonnina icehouse keeps the memories of the hard life and stories of the ghiacciaioli – ice harvesting laborers, as the natural production of ice was one of the main activities in the Montagna Pistoiese until the early part of last century. This proto-industrial activity began at the end of the eighteenth century and was carried out through the Reno Valley between the settlements of Le Piastre and Pracchia, making up the…
Pistoia
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Black Lake
This mountain lake, dating back to the ice age, is surrounded by majestic Apennine elevations, just shy of 2000 metres high.
The Black Lake stands at 1730 metres above sea level, in the Pistoia Mountains between the Alps of the Tre Potenze and the 'Monte Gomito'. Of ice age origins, it takes its name from its dark waters that flow into the Sestaione stream. You can reach it via footpaths, which are suitable for expert and non-expert walkers, starting off from the Valle del Sestaione, from the Val di Luce or…
Abetone Cutigliano
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The Forest of Teso
It stands to the north of Pistoia and to the south of the border with the Province of Bologna in the Pistoia Mountains.
The Forest of Teso extends over more than 2000 hectares of land, and ranges from an altitude of 795 metres to 1732 metres above sea level, from Pracchia to San Marcello Pistoiese with its centre at Maresca and Orsigna, from the River Reno to the River Verdiana. It lies to the north of Pistoia and to the south of the border with the Province of Bologna in the Pistoia Mountains.…
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