Parco Fluviale dell'Alcantara
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Surface Area: 1.927,48 ha
Provinces: CT, ME
Establishment: 2001
Provinces: CT, ME
Establishment: 2001
- River Alcantara, landscape (photo by Flavio Lo Scalzo)
- Le Gurne Trail, with Castiglione di Sicilia in the background (photo by Archivio Parco fluviale dell'Alcantara)
- Water, lights, and colors: Here you are river Alcantara (photo by Flavio Lo Scalzo)
The One and Only River Park in Sicily
About 50 km of river environment with unique and unusual naturalistic aspects. Particular intense geological and geothermic events have determined the structure of the current basalts. It seems that in the prehistorical period a river ran over clayey sediments; then great volcanic eruptions canalized in the riverbed a fluid magma which sank in the most clayey places, forming the current basaltic colonnades. The apotheosis of these spectacular natural sculptures can be found in the quarters Larderia in the Municipality of Motta Camastra.
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