Orto Botanico Forestale dell’Abetone



TIPOLOGY

Nature

SUBTYPE

Park & Garden

LOCALITY

Fontana Vaccaia - Abetone (PT)

DESCRIPTION

The Botanical Garden is located on the Pistoia Mountain at about 1300 m above sea level in the municipality of Abetone-Cutigliano. It was founded in 1987 as a center for nature and forestry studies on the Northern section of the Apennines and as a facility for the conservation of local flora. A splendid high-altitude garden, it hosts botanical and forest species characteristic of the High-altitude Pistoia Apennines: mountain flowers, carnivorous and medicinal plants, majestic trees.

WEBSITE

http://www.ecomuseopt.it/itinerari/la-natura/

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