コステルマーノの天然記念物・トップ13

The historic plane tree of the 100 bersaglieri

At its end, the Lagarina valley drastically narrows its slopes and forms the Chiusa di Ceraino. In just over 100 meters of width, the Adige and the state road that leads to Trento pass. After the locks, the Adige flows into the plain and the landscape opens up rapidly.

At its end, the Lagarina valley drastically narrows its slopes and forms the Chiusa di Ceraino. In just over 100 meters of width, the Adige and the state road that leads to Trento pass. After the locks, the Adige flows into the plain and the landscape opens up rapidly.

As is often the case, you can find Lake Garda plantans that are very old. These trees also stand out because of their gnarled growth habit, which gives the trees their special appearance.

From this point you can enjoy a wonderful, if not the best, view of the rock church of Madonna della Corona near Spiazzi. On the way to the pilgrimage church you pass a Stations of the Cross with life-size figures and you keep looking down into the Adige Valley. The highest pilgrimage church in Italy is at an altitude of 773 meters and was built directly into and on the rock face. It is unmistakable that the church has merged with the rock, because the west and parts of the north wall consist largely of the rock of the mountain. The wall behind the altar of the Madonna della Corona is unusual and contains the miraculous image, a figure of the Virgin Mary with the body of Jesus on her knees (Pietà), surrounded by a crown of thorns and five groups of angels. The pilgrimage church was built in the 15th century, but there is said to have been a hermit church there from the 12th century. In 1982 the church was given the title “Basilica minor” and on April 17, 1988, Pope John Paul II visited the place of pilgrimage.

Wonderful centuries-old monumental tree. I had heard about it for years and finally stopped. Located at the traffic light intersection at the beginning of the town, it is not very tall in relation to the impressive width of the trunk. It seems that the circumference at the base is 15 meters. Beautiful and majestic, shame about the somewhat unfortunate location...

The Platano dei Cento Bersaglieri is a monumental tree located in the center of the Platano area, a hamlet of Caprino Veronese. It dates back to the year 1370 and is currently the largest plane tree in Italy with a height of over 25 metres, a circumference of around 15 and a crown surface of 300 metres. It has gone down in history as the Plane Tree of the Hundred Bersaglieri as it is said that in 1937 during the Great Summer Maneuvers of the Italian Army an entire company of one hundred Bersaglieri hid among its branches and in its cavities. It also seems that in the winter of 1944 the German troops decided to thin it out, for fear that the Partisans could set ambushes on it. (Source: https://www.visitbaldoadige.it/it/il-platano-dei-cento-bersaglieri)

The great plane tree where, it is said, 100 Bersaglieri hid during the wars of independence