Parco del Mercantour

Valle delle Meraviglie

The park of the Mercantour is instituted the 18 August 1979, and is placed in the southern extremity of the alpine arc; he borders with Italy some Magdalene up to curtain hill from the hill and some naturale Park of the Marittime Alps is neighbouring. The departments needed are Alpes Maritimes (22 councils) and Alpes de Haute - Provence. (6 councils.) Her surface, between central zone and peripheral one is of 205.000 h., the minimum altitude her find 490 m. is in the Piaion gully, and that maximum on the mountain Gelas 3143 m. The fauna and the flora of the park are very various and interesting, we can see ibex, chamois, alpine hare, wolves, marmots, real owls, pheasants of mountain, kestrels, partridges, bearded vultures (gipeto.) For the lovers of the flora the zone is rich of forests of conifers of various kind, white and red firs, pines 'cembro' and 'mugo', larches. We also have the possibility of seeing several blooms, 'berardia', gentian, alpine aquilegia, lily S. Giovanni, saxifrage 'florulenta', 'fritillaria' and different kinds of orchids. Not only landscapes, fauna and flora per feet of the m. Bego, can find more than thirtythousand rocky graffiti of the age of the bronze. The access to the graffiti is regulated, and in curtain country inaugurated state is an archaeological museum.

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