ルガニャーノヴァルダルダの天然記念物・トップ14

The Graffiolo Oak, also known as the "Quercione" or "Napoleon's Oak," is a centuries-old tree located in the municipality of Piacenza, near the farm of the same name. It is a monumental oak tree, protected and admired for its size and history, and is considered a "living monument."

The peaks of Menegosa are 4 and not 2. 2 in the municipality of Morfasso, in order of height the second and the fourth. And 2 in the municipality of Farini, the first, the highest, and the fourth, the southern peak from which you can get there from Teruzzi or Longhi passing the Passo Menegosa. At least inform yourself before writing nonsense…

Menegosa is made up of 4 peaks overall, not 2. The southern peak, the one you pass coming from Teruzzi is the first. The last one is behind the highest one. 2 peaks are in the municipality of Morfasso and 2 in that of Farini. So before you write nonsense, inform yourself…🤣

This side of the hill is characterized by a rapid change in terrain type at every step, you go from the tree-lined path, to the classic path and suddenly you turn the curve and you find yourself overlooking the gullies. They almost look like sand dunes but in the end they are clay rocks eroded by water. The peculiarity is that some are completely almost devoid of vegetation and immediately after you find them covered.

Not recommended for children, tiring climb and last section on rock

Piplon, a foolish devil, one day fell in love with a beautiful girl named Gesandra, but the young girl would not have anything to do with him. To deceive her, therefore, he disguised himself as a knight and sought the collaboration of Brother Gesualdo, a local religious man, to intercede for him. But the friar did not let himself be ensnared and deceived him in turn. He told him to come back in a week and carved a rock in his own likeness; Once the devil returned, Brother Gesualdo convinced him that the girl would marry him only if he waited for her, immobile, in that place for seven years, seven months and seven days and offered to stay with him while waiting. Months passed and then years and Piplon fell asleep, carelessly letting the sand carried by the wind cover him and transform him into the rock that can still be seen today on the road to Castellana, in the municipality of Gropparello.

Mount Menegosa has two peaks: one facing Morfasso with a cross and the other facing Groppallo with a small Madonnina.

Gullies are a geomorphological phenomenon of soil erosion which occurs due to the runoff effect of rainwater on degraded clayey rocks, with little vegetation cover and therefore poorly protected from runoff: producing deep furrows in the soil along the side of a mountain or of a hill.