Extending over a surface of 3.500 hectares in the central sector of the higher Bolognese Apennine, at the borders with Tuscany, and includes some mountain basins of the Limentra di Treppio and Brasimone torrents. An environment characterised by the two wide artificial mirrors of water (created for the purpose of electric power) enclosed among woody sides, occasionally interrupted by fields, cultivated areas, bushes, steep rocky jutting.

Thick chestnut and beech woods and conifer reforestations offer shelter to a significant deer population, the presence of which is not difficult to notice in some periods of the year.  In the park there are also some historical villages and picturesque country centres that maintain the atmosphere of the mountain community of long ago.

Managed by a consortium between the Province of Bologna, the Comunità Montana Alta e Media Valle del Reno and the Municipalities  of Camugnano, Castel di Casio and Castiglione dei Pepoli, the park is still waiting, according to the directors of the management board, of the territory plan, but already has a Park centre (in Camugnano, where you can receive all necessary information for excursions).  

As well as deer, the wolf has also retuned, attracted by the presence of prey. At the beginning of the '90s a pretty unusual species for this area peeked out: the porcupine, a prevalently African based rodent but also present in centre-southern Italy and decidedly expanding towards the north in the past few decades.

June.2002

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