REGIONAL PARKS OF THE MARCHES: SAN BARTOLO MOUNTAIN

THE PARK OF “SAN BARTOLO MOUNTAIN”

This park was recognised by the Marches in 1994 and became operative on May 1997. San Bartolo’s park, a mountainous relief that connects Pesaro to Gabicce, is about 10 km long. On the bottom of the cliff there is a thin beach of gravel and cobble. The park presents natural aspects that are very charming, for example the flowering of smelling brooms that in May wrap the slopes of the hill of golden yellow; the cliff which extends as far as the seashore; the stony coast that often makes a thin strip nearby the sheers which drops from the cliff to the sea. The park is also important for the fauna: above all in winter you can meet a lot of kinds of seabirds such as seagulls. In spring it’s very interesting to observe the migration of birds of prey. With more attention and patience it is possible to see a not very well-known phenomenon that is the arrival of the migratory butterflies that arrive from the sea to our coast in spring. The pebbly beach presents a particular flora and fauna, with molluscs, crustaceans, fish and other typical organisms of rocky substratum, like the “Chiton” or the “Haliotis”. The slope that dropping from the crest of the cliff goes away from the sea preserves an agriculture full of arboreous plants. The park of “San Bartolo mountain” preserves the aspect of agricultural and traditional landscape, with the variety of farmhouses and the reticule of ways that connects them.

By Rossetti Chiara, Spadoni Serena Class 2A