• Emilia-Romagna

• Regional Parks

• Apennines

The Forest Museum, in loc. Poranceto - Baigno, exploits the recovered area of some old rural buildings in a wonderful centuries-old chestnut tree forest: stable, barn, and dry-house for chestnuts. The small hall on the ground floor presents the botanical, vegetation, and silvicultural features of the four main mountain forests: mixed oak forest, chestnut tree forest, beech tree forest, conifer reforestations; on the gallery, closed by a big and charming glass wall facing the forest, there is a diorama focusing on the relationship forest-animals, while downstairs, in the road environment, the museum deals with the relationship man-forest in its historical development: the traditional management (timber, charcoal), and the chestnut civilization (forest management, transformation, products), with the help of two relief models representing a charcoal pile and a chestnut dry-house.

How to get there:

• Highway A1:
  Exit Pian del Voglio direction Castiglione dei Pepoli, go ahead to Brasimone Lake, then at Zanchetto Pass head for Suviana up to loc. Barceda; on the left, you will find the road leading to Poranceto.
• SS road Porettana:
  - From Riola di Vergato head for Suviana Lake and go ahead to Bargi, cross Baigno and, after crossing Barceda country hamlet, take the road on the right to Poranceto.
  - From Pistoia: from SS n° 64 in Taviano turn right and follow the indications to Badi Suviana Lake up to the dam; turn right to Bargi, then follow the above-mentioned indications.

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