The nature

Climate

The climate is temperate continental, with typical cold winter.
The rigorous months are Decembre and January when the temperature are relatively low (with minimal value -15°C).
The summer is warm with hot days and pleasant evenings. In July and August the temperatures easily exceed 30°C.
The precipitation is mostly cyclonic.


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Forests

The wood area, that is localized mostly on the hills, is caracterised by woods of oak, mixed and coniferous forests (pine and fir – trees).
The mixed forests, consisting of oak tree, hazel, lime tree, hornbeam etc., that alternate with a trama of vineyards, fields and with a meadow lands for grazing wich surround the village.
There are many copses. Nearly 250 decares of new forestland were planted in 2003 for the forst regeneration.

Flora & Fauna

On the territory of the village, there are plenty of aromatic and officinal herbs (such as rose hip, camomile, mint etc.), wild fruits and flowers.
Here, migratory birds stop off, such as storks and swallows, that leave tropical Africa every spring to reproduce.
Among the forest animals we can meet a wolf, a foxe, a deer.

There are numerous faunistic presences throughout the hill and the valley territories: wild boar, rabbits, weasels, stone martens, squirrels, hedgehogs.
Among the avifauna, there are larks, crows, cuckoos, pheasants, chaffinches, jays, woodpeckers, wrens, thrushes, wild ducks, nightingales, blackbird, partridge etc.

Birds, such as the wild ducks, quail, pheasants breed there.
The population of the red deer in the neighbouring Byala Forest is of interest.

This place offers the possibility of hunting tourism.




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Carp, grey mullet, perch, sheat- fish are fished in the lake near the village.

 

 

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