Protected Area
Identity Card
- Land Surface Area (ha): 18.204,00
- Regions: Lazio
- Provinces: Rieti, Roma
- Municipalities: Licenza, Marcellina, Monteflavio, Montorio Romano, Moricone, Orvinio, Palombara Sabina, Percile, Poggio Moiano, Roccagiovine, San Polo dei Cavalieri, Scandriglia, Vicovaro
- Establishment Measures: LR 41 26/06/1989 - LR 15 26/5/1994 - LR 29 6/10/1997
- PA Official List: EUAP0190
- Park Authority: Ente Parco Naturale Regionale dei Monti Lucretili
The Statute of the Park Authority (PDF - 52Kb)
Monti Lucretili Regional Park
The naturalistic richness of the Park lies in the particular
configuration of the pre-Apennine landscape, where the proximity to the
sea has contributed to the formation and coexistence of biotopes
determined by different microclimates, the latter given to different
exposures and influenced by the variation of the circulation of the air
masses within the mountain group.
The imposing aspect of the
mountains dominating the Roman Countryside, Sabina, and Tiburtino
countryside clashes with the inland landscape characterized by series of
not very high mountains alternating with karstic plateaus and grazing
lands, interrupted by the ridge of Mt. Pellecchia, and differentiating
from the harsher and cliff-like aspects of the south-eastern field of Licenza area.
Geology
The stratigraphic series of Lucretili Mountains is mainly made of sedimentary formations of marine origins and environment, which began settling about 200 million years ago in the ancient Mesozoic ocean, Thetys.
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Morphological Aspects
The territory of Lucretili Mountains is strongly influenced by their
geological and structural history which originated a geographically
well-defined mountain group.
The orography of the area respects the
general Apennine ranging with a north-south axis and represents a
territory consisting of three main mountain folding separated more or
less sharply by fault systems on which torrential engravings can be
found.
Flora
The current vegetation features on Lucretili Mountains derive from a wavering series of events produced by a human action leading to the change of the original aspects.
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Fauna
Like the vegetable landscape, also the fauna has considerably suffered
the human presence, both through hunting and millenary transformation
activities involving the environment.
Despite it, the protected area
preserves elements of great interest in its several environments.
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