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| NATURE AND LANDSCAPE |
Nature that is wild and incredibly varied, far from mass tourism. |
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All of the territory of Rieti offers
an extraordinary experience of pure and wild nature that you can
see while following along the roads and paths from solitary peaks
to fresh valleys, from gentle hills furrowed with olive trees and
secular woods.
The intense greens of the slopes and the golden colors of the wheat are broken
up between thousands of courses of pure water. As many as eleven lakes dot
the territory. The Nuria massif is where the Peschiera Springs begin
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its limpid waters, supplies Rome’s aqueduct.
Passing
through the Holy Valley is the Velino River, which, before giving
origin to the Marmore Waterfalls,
flows through a territory studded with environmental pearls: the
gorges, the San Vittorino plain, (a generous custodian of water),
and the humid areas of
the Reserve Park of the Lungo and Ripasottile Lakes.
The flora offers extraordinary varieties of woods with beech, birch,
oak and ash trees. At lower elevations, chestnut trees and century-old
oaks alternate with a typical Mediterranean bush. In the more humid
areas, weeping willows and poplar trees form a ring around the lakes
with reeds that seem to protect and hide the lakes and their water
lilies.
The fauna offers surprises not the less exceptional, from the wolf
to the golden eagle from the hawk to the bittern, small and rare
herons. The hare, one of the last animals to be indigenous to the
area, the squirrel, the badger and the wild boar still populate the
woods.
Hundreds of waterfowl from northern Europe stop in Rieti’s
Holy Valley: cormorants, wild ducks, grebes and many others.
To discover these beauties…be guided through our Routes
of Mountains and Nature and Landscapes. |
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