THE BIOGENETIC NATURE RESERVE STATE GARIGLIONE-PISARELLO-CATANZARO

The Biogenetic Nature Reserve State Gariglione-Pisarello covers an area of ​​450 hectares of forest of larch pine and fir in the town of Taverna (CZ).

The Forest Gariglione was a good Bourbon Crown until the nineteenth century; assigned to the family Poerio for services rendered to the monarchy, was then given to the Bank of Naples, and in 1911, the German company Huelsberg Charlottenburg. Expropriated by the state as well to subject former enemy, the company was sold to the State for State Forests in 1924.

The English naturalist Norman Douglas, who visited the forest at the time of fullness and grandeur of the forest, spoke in glowing terms, considering it an authentic Urwald, that is a virgin forest never touched by man, formed by "thousands of pine and fir, the bearded ". The area is characterized by mixed forests of tall trees in beech and fir, whose local ecotype "Gariglione" is particularly tolerant to acid rain.

Fonte: sito turismo regionale

THE BIOGENETIC NATURE RESERVE STATE GARIGLIONE-PISARELLO-CATANZARO

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