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world (phone 862008, or
the "Istituto Sperimentale per la Silvicoltura" in Vallombrosa:
0575/353021). In the forest there are still about ten chapels,
connected by a very ancient stone pathway. Ascending: the
chapel, of S. Torello, the rock of San Giovanni Gualberto,
the tabernacle of the Columns, the chapel of the Blessed Migliore,
the hermitage of the Cells called "il Paradisino" at 1037m.
Descending, the centuries-old "Holy Beech Tree", the "Experimental
Aboretum", the chapel of San Girolomo, the Fountain of the
Camarlinghi, the chapel and fountain of Santa Caterina, the
church of San Giovanni Gualberto designed by the architect
Guido Morozzi in 1963, as well as the fountain and chapel
of S.G.G. constructed in 1629. The 17th-century fountain was
recently endowed with a statue of the founder of the order.
In the centre of 17th-century fountain. Adjacent to the forest
of Vallombrosa (1200 Ha.) lies the forest of Sant'Antonio
(1064 Ha.), that abounds in fauna and rare species (among
them the wolf). Together, forming one of the finest and most
complete forest ecosystems in Tuscany.
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Saltino (980m), a tourist
centre, in the outlying area of Reggello, 1,5km from the Abbey. The
resort has been in its present from since 1892, when it was constructed
by Swiss Count Giuseppe Telfener. After four months, he had also constructed
small vills, Swiss chalets, and a rack railway, with gradients of
22%, that linked Saltino with S. Ellero. Saltino gained great fame
a few years later, and became the "in" tourist destination for Italian
and foreign noble families. It still preserves its entire natural
environment.
The Abbey and Saltino are surrounded by the State-Owned Fir Wood***,
a forest of 447 hectares that extendes up to 1449m to Pratomagno,
with magnificent fauna and natural scenes; oak trees, and young oaks,
pines,
Adriatic oaks, beeches, chestnut trees, spruce trees and meadowlands.
This wood is site to "Bruno Tozzi" (a monk at the Abbey in the 18th-century)
experimental "Arboretum" of Vallombrosa.
It extends for 10 hectares, and has 3000 specimens of 1200 species
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