Bordering with Alto Appennino Modenese Park, Corno alle Scale Park offers wonderful mountain landscapes. Solitary valleys, small towns emerging from the forests, sanctuaries and waterfalls are arranged like a fan at the foot of the mountain. The broadleaf forest, above all beech forests, covers most of the area and surrounds the solitary course of streams with crystal-like waters. Glacial cirques and mountain grasslands are the habitats of precious botanical species, the last outpost of the Alps, and of a rich and interesting fauna.
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Five thousand hectares of Park for the highest summit of Appennino Bolognese, a massif of almost two thousand meters characterized by well-evident sandstone strata (from which the name "Scale" derives) like the silhouette of a book leaning against the beech forest. Corno alle Scale Park was established in 1988 (L.R. 11/88). The territory covers 4,974 hectares, out of which 2,545 are represented by adjacent areas (Pre-Park Area divided into: forests, agricultural area, ski slopes) and 2,429 for the remaining Park areas (Zone A: strict protection; Zone B: general protection; Zone C: environmental protection and rehabilitation with tourist purposes).
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