Furlo Gorge

The Gola del Furlo State Natural Reserve is a natural reservoir to protect and enhance whose management has been entrusted to the Province of Pesaro and Urbino. A decision taken by the Ministry of the Environment on February 6, 2001.

The establishment of the Reserve represents a recognition of the environmental and naturalistic peculiarities of the area, which entails the advantage of offering the territory greater opportunities for protection and safeguarding, for example rehabilitation and restoration interventions, in a unified program, which will allow to make better enjoyable this paradise of our province has always been preserved and supervised by the local population. In short, the Reserve not only gives economic advantages to enhance the whole area (from flora, fauna, to rural buildings), but also a unitary design and greater controls for its protection and making it accessible to all.

The Reserve is an authentic paradise, crossed by the Candigliano river which insinuates itself between the imposing rocky walls of the magnificent Gola del Furlo, where the suggestion of the landscape is combined with a prodigious natural wealth that boasts truly unique specimens of flora and fauna. This territory has an extraordinary importance from the landscape, geological, geomorphological, paleontological, floristic and faunistic point of view.

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beautiful valley ... in the Furlo river you can swim in the ice-cold water even in summer

The Furlo pass, or Furlo gorge, is a gorge located between Mount Pietralata (889 m) and Mount Paganuccio (976 m), created by the erosive force of the Candigliano river, a tributary of the Metauro.