Monte Subasio

Subasio

The Subasio is a mountain of the Apennines mountain range in central Italy, in Umbria.

Geography

The Subasio is located in the mountain chain of the Apennines umbro marchigiano above the town of Assisi, in the vicinity of the town of Spello and Nocera Umbra, which are connected with Assisi about the Parco del Monte Subasio which extends in the valley of the Valle Umbra. To Comunità montana Subasio also includes the villages of Bastia Umbra, Torgiano and Valtopina.

The summit reaches a height of about 1290 m slm

History

The town of Assisi has been completely built from the white-pink stones of the mountain with its forests also supplied the inhabitants wood. The source Fontemaggio, which rises in the mountains, supplied in Roman times the city with drinking water.

Nature

There is a summit which is mostly flat and characterized by karst phenomena. For this reason it differs from the steep slopes to the east. The trees of the Subasio can be divided into three zones: the first is characterized by olive trees, whose cultivation stretches of Assisi from Spello on the one side and from Costa di Trex until after Armenzano and San Giovanni on the other. The second region is characterized by oaks, oaks, black hornbeam, manna ash, maples and beeches and oaks. The third area is characterized by high resinous woods and meadows summit. The whole area is inhabited by few animals: wolves, gold eagles and red grouse.

In recent times, multiply by naturschutzliche measures, among other things again the partridge, the wild cat, the squirrel, the wood pigeon, the magpie, the jay, the porcupine, the badger, the fox, the weasel, stone marten and the wild boar.

Parco del Monte Subasio

For Subasio Nature Park include not only mountain of the same, but the peaks of the mountains Civitelle, Sermolla and the hills of San Rufino and Pietralunga. This area is bordered to the north by the river Tescio, northeast of the torrent Chiona east to the Topinotal and southwest to the mountain area that connects Assisi, Spello.

A remarkable natural phenomenon of the park are the sinkholes of Mortaro Grande. Nature experiences also provide the Franciscan path ( sentiero FRANCESCANo ) and the botanical garden in Valtopina, the thermal baths in Centino and the holm oak forest at the hermitage delle Carceri ( Carceri inghiottitoio dell'Orrido ) in Assisi.