Tourist Consortium A.P.M. - Abetone Montagna Pistoiese

Arriving on foot to the Forest Botanical Garden of the Abetone allows to enter pleasantly in contact with the atmosphere of the Appennino Pistoiese. This route offers the possibility to comprise the attempts of the ideatori of the Garden: protect and to introduce the spontaneous flora of this drawn of the Appennino. Leaving from the Municipal large square of Abetone a wide forest road is followed that passes under the system of the seggiovia. It is continued in light fine reduction in Boscolungo locality. This is also according to point of access to the same route marked from the segnavia red and blue. A third party access point has in locality the Queens. From path CAI must here be followed n. 102 (segnavia red white men and). From Boscolungo it is continued in light climb until the track from ski Chierroni and from the path Abetone Trekking is covered here n.7, that it leads to the Black Lago. Little more ahead the Val di Lima lets and it is entered in Goes them of the Sestaione. After approximately twenty minuteren of way it is found, on the right, one cliff wall used like arena from climb, called "Leap of Peppone". Little after attention to a left path must be placed on that comes down with hairpin curves in a forest of conifers until the Botanical Garden, costeggiante the Sestaione torrent. The FOREST BOTANICAL GARDEN There are many reasons in order to go to make a visit the Forest Botanical Garden of the Abetone, in how much the multiple opportunities that it offers satisfy various requirements and expectations. She is who tries a place where to make a calm walk, he is the fan of botany can find how much try. In 1,4 hectares we find collected the more characteristic atmospheres of the Northern Appennino and approximately 300 species cartellinate vegetables (between these: genziane, sassifraghe, gigli and orchidee). Of several the species only information will not be had on the scientific name and the rarity, but also on the various characteristics: it will be possible to know plants of alimentary and medicinal use, those toxic or those quite died them. The all organized in the full respect of the nature, valuing most possible spontaneità of the atmosphere. One will appraise the beauty of the faggio forest and fir white man, the spectacular closing of the plants of cliffs and the variety of the humid zones represented from small lagos and little streams. The visit can turn out still more guided interesting if from graduated students and that they lend service to the Garden. The management of the Forest Botanical Garden is entrusted to a constituted consortium gives: Tuscany region, State Forestry Corps, Montana Community of the Appennino From Tuscany Pistoiese and Università. The origin of this structure is tied to the figure of Dr. Federico Road, than from its passion for the flora it has made to be born an Appennine GARDEN, with conservative and didactic functions.