カルパネート・ピアセンティーノの天然記念物・トップ7

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."

Beautiful waterfall that can be seen up close.

The waterfall is beautiful but it is not marked by a CAI route

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.

The series of waterfalls, with the main one called Salto del Diavolo, are on the Rio Roncaccio and not Burì. But who invented such nonsense 🤣?

Delightful waterfall located just upstream of the path that connects the towns of Taverne and Tollara.

The path winds through a forest rich in vegetation, which upon arrival frames the blue of the waterfalls. Here you will see the water plunging into two lakes, which are Lago del Lino and Lago delle Pecore. In the past, when in summer the flow of water was less and only small pools remained, these places were used to give the animals to drink.

Pietra Nera, a beautiful rocky outcrop of ophiolitic origin (Mesozoic era, Jurassic period, about 155 million years ago), is located on the right bank of the Stirone stream and at the foot of the Borgo di Vigoleno. This area was previously dedicated to the extraction of serpentinite (ophiolite from the Greek "ophis" -> snake), composed of silicates of magnesium and iron and small quantities of magnetite whose crystalline structure leads these minerals to overlap in thin flakes which give the rock a "scaly" shape similar to the skin of reptiles) and the small lake, located at the foot of the rock, is due precisely to these quarrying activities.