Lessinia Nature Park

The Lessinia Regional Nature Park was established in 1990 in order to safeguard the natural, environmental, historic and ethnic heritage of the Verona area.

The Lessinia Regional Nature Park stretches out over the more northerly part of the Lessinia area, at an altitude of between 1200 and 1800 metres. A series of sites are particularly interesting from a naturalistic and a paleontological point of view (Cascate di Molina, Covolo di Camposilvano and Valle delle Sfingi, Covoli e Purga di Velo, Pesciara di Bolca, Strati di Roncà, Basalti colonnari di San Giovanni Ilarione). It is an area characterized by karst phenomena: there are a number of dolines, caves, and natural cavities (among which the famous Spluga della Preta), spectacular structures carved from nature in the calcareous rock (Ponte di Veja, Valle delle Sfingi), deeply enclosed valleys and vaj, and just a few superficial watercourses.

Parco delle Cascate di Molina (Waterfall Park)
North of Fumane (15km) the Cascate di Molina park welcomes visitors with beautiful plays of water in the green of the lawns and woods. The Waterfall Park is the ideal place for an excursion, surrounded by luxuriant vegetation, between walls of nude rock, wide caves and crashing falls of spring water.

The paleontological and prehistorical Museum of S. Anna d'Alfaedo
The museum displays a collection of sea fossils among which the biggest shark in Europe, and important prehistorical finds like the Lessinia flintstones which are like the flints used by the famous "Iceman Ötzi".

Ponte di Veja
Magic and suggestive place, Ponte di Veja is the entry-arch to an ancient karst cavern which crumbled due to the water erosion. In the surrounding caves are preserved important prehistoric drifts. It is the most spectacular natural stone bridge in the Verona area. Dante and Mantegna visited this bridge too.

Quarries of Prun
Stone galleries dating from the XVIIIth century which were excavated in the side of the mountains by the local quarrymen who quarried the so called Pietra di Prun.

Stone villages
Old installations with closed courts, big dovecote towers, huts and stone fountains.

The Parish Church of San Floriano
It dates from the 11th and 12th century and has a tufa and stone facade.

Information: 
Parco della Lessinia - www.lessiniapark.it