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 The information about this location have been automatically translated with Microsoft Translator. Rank : 10.0 (average on 1 votes)Coordinates : 44.074812, 10.889494 ( Open in Google Maps) Subjects : Mountain landscape: high mountain peaks, forests and woodlands, streams, ruins and trails, ancient country and mulini.Fauna and birdlife: substantial groups of wild boar, deer, roe deer, foxes and badgers and other animals typical Tuscan Apennines; recently spotted the wolf.Recommended equipment : Wide-angle or mediotele for landscape paintings for wildlife; Useful accessories such as tripods and filters to capture the movements of the numerous streams and clouds on the highest peaks.Best months : All year round, in summer the valley is more alive from a human perspective, but in autumn and winter from the photographic point of view is probably the best.How to get there : From Pistoia, follow the road SS66 towards Abetone-Modena; in town Pontepetri turn right on SS632 direction Pracchia-Bologna, and just after the town of Pracchia, turn left towards Orsigna.Da Bologna, follow the state "porrettana" SS64 towards Pistoia, and at Ponte alla Venturina, turn right for the SS632, once it crossed the border with Tuscany, turn right, before the village of Pracchia.Da Modena, follow the Brenner highway SS12 towards Abetone, in the locality of Lima, turn left on SS66 towards Pistoia, and Pontepetri turn left Pracchia.Da Lucca, recommend taking the highway to Pistoia.In Train, take the "train" Pistoia-Porretta, the historic line porrettana, and get off at Pracchia, here you can enjoy some links with the 'bus, taxi or on foot logically.Visits : Free admission all year. winter: ask for the time, 'cause valley prone to heavy snowfalls, and discourage the venture with bad weather at high altitude to the shelter Portafranca, or in the case of couriers, areas pericolosedove very bad incidents happen too often.Notes : The famous valley of the Pistoia Apennines, without any doubt one of the most beautiful, unspoiled and authentic high Appenino.Famosa in the Middle Ages as a way of communication between Florence and Bologna, for ever met different needs of the city of Pistoia, you were born in ironworks years, Carbonari, sheep grazing, mills and large handicraft product today, the flour castagne.Si said that the name Orsigna, comes from a princess named "bearberry" that had stability in the valley at Castello, or by the presence of bears, which are supposed to have given the idea the filmmakers of the emblem of Pistoia; indeed, historically I am not certain either hypothesis, but the legend or not, I like to think that by villager in the woods once there were orsi.Abitante of the most illustrious and most famous of the valley, is without doubt the famous writer and journalist Tiziano Terzani, who here in his "Himalaya" decided to spend the last years of his life. | | Nearby:   Parco del Corno alle Scale 7 km
 Osservatorio Astronomico San Marcello Pistoiese 7 km
 Cascate del Dardagna 9 km
 Monte Spigolino 10 km
 Riserva Naturalistica Acquerino Cantagallo 12 km
 Lago Pratignano 12 km
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