Carrara is surrounded by four natural parks in Italy - Alpi Apuane Park, Cinque Terre Park, Orecchiella Park, and Massaciuccoli Park. The Alpi Apuane Park contains marble quarries and rare flowers and wildlife. Hiking trails allow visitors to explore the mountains and shelter. Cinque Terre Park features beautiful coastal villages with terraced vineyards and olive groves connected by footpaths. The Appennino Park has forests, mountains, lakes and hosts animals like golden eagles and wolves. Massaciuccoli Park is a flat region with a small lake used for tourism and farming. The document shares photos from these parks around Carrara taken during school trips

1. Carrara, a town surrounded by 4 natural parks

2. Our schoolmates in our classroom

3. A beautiful view of Carrara
Carrara finds itself between mountains and sea

4. Geographical map
Carrara finds itself at the borders of three italian regions:Tuscany Liguria and Emilia

5. The four parks that surround Carrara
Alpi Apuane’s Park Cinque Terre
Orecchiella’s Park Massaciuccoli

6. The Alpi Apuane‟s
natural park
Three aspects seen from Campocecina, not
far from our town

7. Enviroment and work :a difficult relationship
Men at work in a marble quarry in
Carrara „s mountains
Quarries in the middle of
our mountains

8. Nature in Alpi Apuane : flowers
Centaurea Montis Borlae, that can only be found Orchidea, one of the most beautiful flowers in our
In our mountains Mountains

9. Wild animals:
The emblem of the Apuane park
A “muflone” ( a big wild goat)
living on the highest peaks
A “coralline crow”, the
symbol of the Apuane’s
natural park

10. Hiking in the Alpi Apuane
An example of signed footpath
Campocecina’s shelter, where hikers can stay
overnight
Mulattiera (Mule track)
An ancient footpath regulary used in the past

11. 2) The “Cinque Terre” natural park
A beatiful view of Corniglia, one of the villages of the “Cinque terre”

12. In these pictures we
can see the terraces
and the marvellous
sea
In the second there are the
typical terraces and stone walls
which permit the locals to
cultivate the ground

13. The fishing
boats
positioned
outside the
fishermen‟s
houses
The traditional ways to
move at the “cinque terre”
A footpath which was and is
still one of the most popular
ways of moving from a
village to another
The railway line from above with
the sea as its background

14. A vineyard where
“schiacchetra” wine is
produced .
Another view of the
traditional houses of
one of the villages

15. Our class during a Comenius trip at “Cinque
terre”

16. 3) “Appennino‟s” natural park
A beautiful sight of the Appennino‟s peaks. (In the background
the Alpi Apuane)

17. Nature on the Appennino : wild animals
A golden eagle feeding its chick
and a species of wolf
Spring and winter are two good seasons
to visit the Appennino and to appreciate all its beautiful aspects

18. Appennino‟s forests :
Two different pictures of a
“faggeta” , the typical
Appennino‟s forest.
Appennino‟s mountains are rich in
small lakes (above).
A big “faggeta” and its autumnal
beauty.

19. A view of “Appennino”‟s peaks covered by two meters of snow last winter

20. 4) The massaciuccoli‟s park
The Massaciuccoli „s park is flatland and includes a small lake and
vast conifer tree

21. Particular houses in the middle of the nature
Particular houses surrounded by the trees , like that of
D‟Annunzio, a poet who loved that places and who wrote a lot
of poems about it

22. Breeding of Animals
Breeding of animals, an important part of the economy of this
park

23. The picturesque lake of Massaciuccoli
The most important place in this park , the lake, which is fundamental
above all for the tourism

24. Thanks
• A special thank to all my class and in particular to
• Alessandro Caroli and Andrea Poggi ( for the power point topic )
• Massimiliano Guerrini and Alessandra Fioravanti (for the pictures )
• And the other my schoolmates , who came with me to the parks in our
Comenius school trips :
• Francesca Briganti, Sara Caffaggi,Claudio Currieri,Lorenzo Del Monte,
Alberto Durante, Benedetta Fantolini,Alessandra Fioravanti,Giulia
Genovesi,Sara Granai,Michela Lavaggi,Chiara Maggiani, Maddalena
Moretti,Giulia Pancani,Elena Testi
• All the photos were tacken by teachers and students of the “liceo scientifico
Marconi”,except for those about Massaciuccoli‟s park and those of animals
of the Apennino‟s park, kindly offered by the respective parks