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Mediterranean The service is available throughout the year on Saturday and on Sunday Sunday on and Saturday on year the throughout available is service The Authorities have created a well- a created have Authorities activities. steep slopes and patches of of patches and slopes steep guides supported by qualified personnel with long experience in the Park Park the in experience long with personnel qualified by supported guides itineraries to their best. The Park Park The best. their to itineraries oak and chestnut forests, forests, chestnut and oak The CST provides an integrated service for transportation and trails trails and transportation for service integrated an provides CST The and therefore enjoy the park park the enjoy therefore and Liguri and the Beigua Park. Beigua the and Liguri and rare wetlands, thick beech, beech, thick wetlands, rare and structure for the promotion and the enjoyment of the Alta Via dei Monti Monti dei Via Alta the of enjoyment the and promotion the for structure choose a longer stay in the area area the in stay longer a choose m) and includes meadows meadows includes and m) (1,183 The Centro Servizi Territoriali (CST) in Sassello acts as the operational operational the as acts Sassello in (CST) Territoriali Servizi Centro The the opportunity to plan and and plan to opportunity the Monte Reixa Reixa Monte and m) (1,082 visitors to make the most of of most the make to visitors e Argentea Argentea e Mont m) (1,148 Rama of accomodation, enabling enabling of accomodation, Monte Monte m), (1,145 Frattin Cima shelters, refuges and other types types other and refuges shelters, m), m), (1,287 Beigua Monte passing will come across unattended unattended across come will The reserve follows the coastline coastline the follows reserve The the surrounding territory you you territory surrounding the Passo del Turchino. Turchino. del Passo Within the protected area and and area protected the Within the Colle del Giovo hills to the the to hills Giovo del Colle the Varazze, Corso Matteotti 56, Palazzo B. Jacopo tel. +39 019 935043 019 +39 tel. Jacopo B. Palazzo 56, Matteotti Corso Varazze, be seen along the chosen trail. chosen the along seen be Sassello, Via G.B. Badano 45 tel/fax +39 019 724020 019 +39 tel/fax 45 Badano G.B. Via Sassello, Ligurian Rviera, running from from running Rviera, Ligurian Campo Ligure, Via della Giustizia 5 tel. +39 010 921055 010 +39 tel. 5 Giustizia della Via Ligure, Campo of the naturalistic topics that can can that topics naturalistic the of at a stone’s thrown from the the from thrown stone’s a at Arenzano, Lungomare Kennedy tel. +39 010 9127581 010 +39 tel. Kennedy Lungomare Arenzano, know and better appreciate some some appreciate better and know kilometres of mountain ridges ridges mountain of kilometres Useful phone numbers phone Useful which can help the visitor get to to get visitor the help can which hillside balcony. Its twenty-six twenty-six Its balcony. hillside interpretive panels and leaflets, leaflets, and panels interpretive the sea as if from a spectacular spectacular a from if as sea the Toce motorway tollgates of Masone. of tollgates motorway Toce theme trails, supported by by supported trails, theme This protected area overlooks overlooks area protected This Voltri, Arenzano,Varazze, Celle Ligure, Albisola; A26 Genova - Gravellona Gravellona - Genova A26 Albisola; Ligure, Celle Arenzano,Varazze, Voltri, Authorities have also set up up set also have Authorities Liguria. - Genova of tollgates motorway Ventimiglia - Genova A10 Motorways: even more inviting, the Park Park the inviting, more even Varazze - Sassello. - Varazze contrasting elements so typical of of typical so elements contrasting To make the Park excursions excursions Park the make To SS 1 Aurelia; SP 334 del Sassello; SP 456 del Turchino; SP 542 542 SP Turchino; del 456 SP Sassello; del 334 SP Aurelia; 1 SS By car: By and is a perfect example of the the of example perfect a is and 019 22011. 019 +39 tel. Savona TPL 546741; 010 +39 tel. Genova ATP By bus: By illustrated. provinces of Genoa and Savona, Savona, and Genoa of provinces Terme - Asti: stations of Campo Ligure e Rossiglione. e Ligure Campo of stations Asti: - Terme man and nature are told and and told are nature and man offers all this. It covers an area of 8,715 hectares straddling the the straddling hectares 8,715 of area an covers It this. all offers Printed onFreelifeecologicalpaper Acqui - Genova F.S. Linea Albisola; Ligure, Celle Varazze, Cogoleto, like leafing through a magnificent book where the history of of history the where book magnificent a through leafing like Linea F.S. Genova - Ventimiglia: stations of Voltri, Arenzano, Arenzano, Voltri, of stations Ventimiglia: - Genova F.S. Linea By train: By The Beigua Park, the largest regional nature reserve in Liguria, Liguria, in reserve nature regional largest the Park, Beigua The -SV Tipograf Printed byCoop Graphics: www.7vicocrema.it Graphics: www.7vicocrema.it Liguri – tracing the backbone of this protected area – is rather rather is – area protected this of backbone the tracing – Liguri visited. visited. How to get there get to How and Po valley) or along the watersheds on the Alta Via dei Monti Monti dei Via Alta the on watersheds the along or valley) Po and and specialities to be tasted and important monuments to be be to monuments important and tasted be to specialities and Following the park trails on both sides of the hillside (Tyrrhenian (Tyrrhenian hillside the of sides both on trails park the Following see, curious traditions waiting to be discovered, local products products local discovered, be to waiting traditions curious see, environmental, historical and cultural landscape. cultural and historical environmental, breathtaking scenery and views stretching as far as the eye can can eye the as far as stretching views and scenery breathtaking opportunity to admire and fully appreciate the beauty of this this of beauty the appreciate fully and admire to opportunity Uncontaminated natural environments to be glimpsed on tiptoe, tiptoe, on glimpsed be to environments natural Uncontaminated covering an area of 500 km. Visitors therefore have a great great a have therefore Visitors km. 500 of area an covering There is a wide variety of excursion routes in the Beigua Park Park Beigua the in routes excursion of variety wide a is There OVERLOOKING THE SEA THE OVERLOOKING regional nature park nature regional NATURE RAMBLING NATURE A HILLSIDE BALCONY BALCONY HILLSIDE A TRACES OF MAN A HERITAGE OF BIODIVERSITY TO BE SAFEGUARDED A “NATURALLY” The Beigua Park also features a wealth of historic and cultural Thanks to its particular position straddling the Apennines It is also possible to spot a number of unique inhabitants WELCOMING PARK evidence partly visible on site and partly in museums, showing watershed, yet close to the sea, the Beigua mountain range is belonging to the minor fauna (including the Montpellier Snake, how the human settlements present in the area evolved over the considered one of the richest areas in Liguria in terms of its the Alpine Newt, the Crested Newt, the European Common Brown The Beigua Park district offers a wide variety of interesting acti- years. Starting from the palaeoethnological findings which bear biodiversity. Frog, and others) as well as colourful endemic species of flora vities and events all the year round. Visitors can therefore choose witness to the fact that the woods on Mount Beigua were already It is a nature reserve of exceptional value – acknowledged as an (Viola bertolonii, Cerastium utriense, Asplenium cuneifolium, Daphne the most suitable moment for a visit and various kinds of accom- inhabited by hunters and shepherds in prehistoric times, and “Important Birdlife Area” according to the Birdlife International cneorum, Cheilantes marantae). modation present on the territory, ranging from holiday farms then followed by the increasingly important role played by the classification - where the Golden Eagle nests regularly, as well Inside the Park it is possible to enjoy the sight of flowering and farmhouse rentals to countryside hotels/refuges, set right in the heart of the protected area, as well as a number of inns and area as a crossroads between important trading routes linking as the Rock Thrush, the Common Whitethroat, the Dartford shrubs typical of Mediterranean scrub and just a few kilometres bed&breakfast accommodation, which are quite frequent in the the coast with the plain of the Warbler, the Nightjar, the Red- away, come across precious high- inland areas. One may also find Po valley. It also includes the backed Shrike and over eighty altitude wetlands, remnants from more luxury accommodation strong influence exerted on the other ornithological species. far-off times when the typical which are quite frequent in the economy of the area around Hidden from the sight of temperature in these areas was inland areas. One may also find the Orba valley by the arrival man, the wolf treads its most far colder than nowadays.