A thousand paths, four steps, one destination
A thousand paths, four steps, one destination
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“ADELASIA” REGIONAL NATURAL RESERVE<br />
Area: 1,273 hectares<br />
Description of the territory<br />
In addition to the geo-morphological rocks (Rocca dell’Adelasia and Karst phenomena), to the geological<br />
complexity and richness of water streams, with pools, falls, and meanders, the woods are the main attraction<br />
of the reserve, the only vast protected area in Liguria which is totally public property. The beech groves<br />
are extremely beautiful, with majestic secular trees, along with Mediterranean vegetable formations and<br />
grasslands full of orchids. There are numerous rare or interesting botanical species, like the cork oak, the<br />
sycamore maple tree, the line tree, the ruscus, the bilberry, St. John’s lily, gulf coast swallow wort, and Ligurian<br />
saffron. The wild fauna is represented by mammals, such as the wild boar, the fallow deer and roe deer, the<br />
fox, the badger, and the skunk, the “greater horseshoe” bat, by birds, among which the sparrow-hawk, the<br />
h<strong>one</strong>y buzzard, the green woodpecker, the great spotted woodpecker, the Eurasian nuthatch, the whitethroated<br />
dipper, the kingfisher, but perhaps, the water environments are the <strong>one</strong>s that house the most<br />
interesting species, thanks to the presence of rare amphibians (newts, yellow and black salamanders) and the<br />
crayfish. The network of objects, hydraulic works, road infrastructures, forest cultivations, connected to the<br />
workmanship of iron and glass started in the Middle Ages, is still visible today. These places were the scenery<br />
of the great Napoleonic battle of Montenotte in 1796.<br />
How to get there<br />
Beechwood in the Adelasia Reserve - Photographed by P. Genta<br />
Municipalities involved: Cairo Montenotte (SV)<br />
Managed by: Province of Savona, Parks and Protected Areas Office, Via Amendola 10, 17100 Savona<br />
Tel. +39 019 8313545 - Fax +39 019 8313517 - email: p.genta@provincia.savona.it<br />
website: www.provincia.savona.it<br />
By car: highway Turin- Savona (toll booth: Altare): then follow towards Ferrania and Montenotte;<br />
By bus: ACTS 61 (Savona - Cairo M.) and 51 lines (Cairo M.- Ferrania). Bus service “EscursioniBus” upon booking<br />
- Arancio line. ACTS toll free number 800 012727;<br />
By train: Savona - Acqui Terme line (Ferrania station).<br />
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