Majella National Park

Majella National Park

The Majella National Park established in 1991, It has an extension of 74.095 ha, account 39 common and includes 4 large orographic individuality: the Majella massif, Morrone, Porrara and Monti Pizzi. With the second highest peak of the Apennines (Monte Amaro 2793 m), and the 55% of its territory at elevations higher than 2000 m, It is the second highest mountain range of the Apennines.

To see her from afar Majella appears massive and compact, but to see it close up it turns deep cracks which conceal an unexpected and surprising world: a long lattice I, Deep times, dry and cut into the rock like canyons, other more open and lush with streams on the bottom, as Alpine valleys. While those who walk at the top, above the 2400 m, He discovers an amazing world of arid and undulating stony, a particular environment, almost lunar, unique in the Apennines.

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