Monte Sangiano
This site of community importance provides visitors with superb landscape views, looking over the Province's seven lakes, in a habitat of open meadowland and limestone rock.
This site of community importance (SCI) covers an area of about two hundred hectares, not far from Lake Maggiore, and it features areas of meadowland, which today are unfortunately rather discontinuous in their distribution, on arid and very often particularly stony slopes. The calcium carbonate rock that hallmarks this feature produces steep limestone cliffs.
From a morphological point of view, this mountain presents some important features typical of Carse geography, such as caves and travertine formations, set within a rare and very special type of vegetation which includes protected species such as the bee orchid, Ophrys apifera.
In addition, with its rocky peak named Picuz, and the ancient Romanesque church of San Clemente, Monte Sangiano provides wonderful views, looking over the lakes of the Province.
The fauna that lives in this protected habitat includes many wild species, including amphibians, invertebrates, and birds of prey that are characteristic of this section of the subalpine landscape, such as the buzzard.
This site of community importance (SCI) covers an area of about two hundred hectares, not far from Lake Maggiore, and it features areas of meadowland, which today are unfortunately rather discontinuous in their distribution, on arid and very often particularly stony slopes. The calcium carbonate rock that hallmarks this feature produces steep limestone cliffs.
From a morphological point of view, this mountain presents some important features typical of Carse geography, such as caves and travertine formations, set within a rare and very special type of vegetation which includes protected species such as the bee orchid, Ophrys apifera.
In addition, with its rocky peak named Picuz, and the ancient Romanesque church of San Clemente, Monte Sangiano provides wonderful views, looking over the lakes of the Province.
The fauna that lives in this protected habitat includes many wild species, including amphibians, invertebrates, and birds of prey that are characteristic of this section of the subalpine landscape, such as the buzzard.
