Trekking in the Gorges of Fara San Martino

Tiziana DecemberOctober 1, 2015daily trekking
Trekking in the Gorges of Fara San Martino

Calls gorges of San Martino are placed at the entrance of one of the longest valleys Apennine, the Valley of the Holy Spirit from Fara San Martino leading from the summit of Monte Amaro with a drop of 2300 meters. The valley is so long that takes 3 names: Valley of the Holy Spirit in its initial part, Valle di Macchia Lunga in its central portion and Valle Cannella in its terminal portion.

The two rock walls that serve as access to the valley are far apart, at the narrowest point, circa 2 meters and continue for about 50 meters until the opening of the valley. This situation helps to give a sense of great suggestion to who is there to pass for the first time.

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Majella National Park

Tiziana DecemberMarch 11, 2015Blog, where we operate
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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