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The Casentino, situated in the tall valley of the Arno, it is an oasis of green where the woods of the National Park of the Forests Casentinesi are the more evident and characteristic natural element. The beauties of this territory can be admired crossing different itineraries. Itineraries a foot, to horse or with the mountain bikes offer the possibility to discover the most particular aspects of this territory: from a dive to the sources of the Arno on the Falterona mountain to a visit to the hermitage of Camaldoli, where suggestions of the landscape and ancient values harmonize today still the man and the environment, to a standstill in the sanctuary of Chiusi della Verna, rich of natural beauties and of works of art, from almost eight centuries center of the Franciscan message. Rich and suggestive it is the itinerary that unties him among parishes, almost all in Romanesque style and castles that testify the maximum artistic and architectural shine reached by the Casentino in the medioevo an example for all it is the castle of the Conti Guidi di Poppi.
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