Umbra forest nature reserve
 
Umbra forest nature reserve
 

Unesco World Heritage since 2017. 

 

It is located in the Gargano National Park and extends for about 400 hectares at an altitude of 800 meters. Here is the Zappino dello Scorzone, a Aleppo pine over 700 years old, among the largest and oldest in Italy. In the reserve forests are many yew trees used in the past for the production of arches.


Floristically there can be distinguished three areas: the upper one of the beech, the middle one of the cerreta and the lower one of the Mediterranean forest with oaks and minor species. The scenery that the forest offers in autumn is spectacular, when the leaves of the trees are tinged with the typical colors.

As for the ground animals, wolves, hares, squirrels, deer, fallow deer, foxes, badgers, wild cats, small rodents, wild boars, roe deer and weasels live here.

For those who love birdwatching, during the day you can see the crow, magpie, blackcap, nightingale, robin, woodpecker, sparrow hawk, kite, goshawk and buzzard and blackbird. At night appears the great royal owl, the owl, the owl and the barn owl.