Garfagnana

Garfagnana is a casket full of naturalistic treasures, I contained among the chain of the Alps Apuane and the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano. From the contrast among these two environments, not only morphologically, but also socially and traditionally different, an unusual range of images and colors is born. To the sharp Apuanes, white of marble, the sweets are contrasted profiles of the imposing Appennino, with the slim green of the pastures and that more dark color of the immense woods of beech tree. In the fondovalle, the crystalline waters still of the Serchio, they serve as zipper among these two landscapes, different, but equally fascinating. This is the ideal environment for the one who wants to live to direct contact with the nature contemporarily rediscovering the history of a valley and the traditional hospitality of his/her inhabitants. The Garfagnana, is an area set apart of the province of Lucca that has succeeded with the time in almost maintaining unchanged his/her native landscape and environmental characters. The actual climate, with middle temperatures distant from the values estre me and the abundance of water, have conferred a luxuriant aspect to the natural vegetation. In this oasis of green, in the slope appenninico the Park of the Orecchiella extends him, to which the rockiest chain in the Alps Apuane is contrasted, today Regional Park. In these environments, they find shelter a lot of kinds of animal rare or never in the rest of the Italian territory as the royal eagle, the real owl, the hawk lanario, the wolf appenninico, the alpine swift etc. Also the flora contains rare kinds residual of the ancient glaciations as the Rhododendron ferrugineun.

Gragnanella

Gragnanella is an ancient medieval suburb surrounded by woods of chestnut tree and cultivated fields to 480 mt. of altitude, distant only 5 kms from Castelnuovo Garfagnana, chief town of the valley. 
L' Agriturismo Pra' di Reto is found in the small plaza of the Breath, it is an ancient agricultural house of the second halves five hundred restored maintaining his/her native typology. And' carefully furnished with ancient furniture. For a vacation in full relax, but also for the one who desires a more active vacation.