carrara a town surrounded by 4 natural parks

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Carrara, a town surrounded by 4 natural parks

Our schoolmates in our classroom

A beautiful view of Carrara

Carrara finds itself between mountains and sea

Geographical map

Carrara finds itself at the borders of three italian regions:Tuscany Liguria and Emilia

Alpi Apuane’s Park

Orecchiella’s Park

Cinque Terre

Massaciuccoli

The four parks that surround Carrara

The Alpi Apuane‟s

natural park

Three aspects seen from Campocecina, not

far from our town

Men at work in a marble quarry in

Carrara „s mountains

Quarries in the middle of

our mountains

Enviroment and work :a difficult relationship

Centaurea Montis Borlae, that can only be found

In our mountains Orchidea, one of the most beautiful flowers in our

Mountains

Nature in Alpi Apuane : flowers

A “muflone” ( a big wild goat)

living on the highest peaks

The emblem of the Apuane park

A “coralline crow”, the

symbol of the Apuane’s

natural park

Wild animals:

Campocecina’s shelter, where hikers can stay

overnight

An example of signed footpath

Mulattiera (Mule track)

An ancient footpath regulary used in the past

Hiking in the Alpi Apuane

A beatiful view of Corniglia, one of the villages of the “Cinque terre”

2) The “Cinque Terre” natural park

In the second there are the

typical terraces and stone walls

which permit the locals to

cultivate the ground

In these pictures we

can see the terraces

and the marvellous

sea

The traditional ways to

move at the “cinque terre”

The fishing

boats

positioned

outside the

fishermen‟s

houses

The railway line from above with

the sea as its background

A footpath which was and is

still one of the most popular

ways of moving from a

village to another

A vineyard where

“schiacchetra” wine is

produced .

Another view of the

traditional houses of

one of the villages

Our class during a Comenius trip at “Cinque

terre”

A beautiful sight of the Appennino‟s peaks. (In the background

the Alpi Apuane)

3) “Appennino‟s” natural park

A golden eagle feeding its chick

and a species of wolf

Spring and winter are two good seasons

to visit the Appennino and to appreciate all its beautiful aspects

Nature on the Appennino : wild animals

Two different pictures of a

“faggeta” , the typical

Appennino‟s forest.

Appennino‟s mountains are rich in

small lakes (above).

A big “faggeta” and its autumnal

beauty.

Appennino‟s forests :

A view of “Appennino”‟s peaks covered by two meters of snow last winter

4) The massaciuccoli‟s park

The Massaciuccoli „s park is flatland and includes a small lake and

vast conifer tree

Particular houses in the middle of the nature

Particular houses surrounded by the trees , like that of

D‟Annunzio, a poet who loved that places and who wrote a lot

of poems about it

Breeding of Animals

Breeding of animals, an important part of the economy of this

park

The picturesque lake of Massaciuccoli

The most important place in this park , the lake, which is fundamental

above all for the tourism

Thanks

• A special thank to all my class and in particular to

• Alessandro Caroli and Andrea Poggi ( for the power point topic )

• Massimiliano Guerrini and Alessandra Fioravanti (for the pictures )

• And the other my schoolmates , who came with me to the parks in our

Comenius school trips :

• Francesca Briganti, Sara Caffaggi,Claudio Currieri,Lorenzo Del Monte,

Alberto Durante, Benedetta Fantolini,Alessandra Fioravanti,Giulia

Genovesi,Sara Granai,Michela Lavaggi,Chiara Maggiani, Maddalena

Moretti,Giulia Pancani,Elena Testi

• All the photos were tacken by teachers and students of the “liceo scientifico

Marconi”,except for those about Massaciuccoli‟s park and those of animals

of the Apennino‟s park, kindly offered by the respective parks

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