NATIONAL PARK OF THE MAIELLA
Second mountain of the Appennineses, its unmistakable elliptic dome is risen between the sea and the central Appennineses.
Its unique charm is constituted from deep valleys, real canyons on which dominate vast plateaus desert of the Karst over the 2000 mt.
On the Maiella they live more than
1700 kinds
of plants, some only ones in peninsular
Italy.
The fauna of the park is represented
by the
wolf, from the bear marsicano, from
the chamois,
from the wild cat, from the wild boar
and
from more than 130 kinds of birds,
among
which the eagle, the wandering hawk,
the
astore, the culbianchis, the alpine
chaffinches,
the woodpeckers and the coral caws.
In the alive memory of the local populations
the Maiella represents the mother mountain,
sacred in the antiquity to the goddess
Maja;
in the middle ages it became place
of prayer
for numerous hermits, among which Pietro
Angeleri (Pope Celestino V), so much
that
the Petrarca defined it Domus Christi.
The sense of spirituality today it
is impressive
that emanates from the dizzy hermitages
dug
in the walls that today entertain the
School
of Rock of Roccamorice.
The park embraces the provincies of
Chieti,
Pescara and L' Aquila. The climate
is continental
with warm summers and rigid winters
that
favor abundant snowy precipitations.
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