RESIDENCE PELONI
Zoo Poppi
10-06-2015
In 1972 Dr. Roberto Bricks, veterinary surgeon, has made the City of Poppi (Ar), with only the help of his wife Renata and children 5 1 Park Zoo Wildlife European zoo that was the first and is still the only one of its kind to host the European fauna.
The park covers an area of approximately 50 hectares planted with pine, chestnut and oak trees, the work that has at the same time for ecological, cultural, educational and wildlife is a concrete testimony of faith and love for nature.
Park unlike other while being of public enjoyment and use has not benefited to date or for its implementation nor to its maintenance of some public funding, has lived and continues to live thanks to the single work continues the family bricks over that the enthusiastic consent of the visitors and the best reproduction of the animals in the park have found an ideal habitat.
At the center of the park stands the church (dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi), in a scenario where you can see the unique lake with waterfowl, the medieval castle of Poppi, the chain of Pratomagno and the sacred mountain of La Verna; Camaldoli with its monastery and the National Park of Casentino Forests are located a few kilometers.
A visit to the "zoo" can mean both for parents and children for both teachers and students, as well as some pleasant hours spent outdoors in the company of the finest examples of the "European Fauna" a direct and immediate verification of the studies that pupils go performing on the texts of Zoology on the animal world, and especially the opportunity to experience those impulses sentimental towards animals that textbooks can never give.
The grace, the beauty, agility, harmony and the profusion of colors and the charm of the singing of the different species of animals that live in the "Park" is in itself a magnificent spectacle and at the same time an "open book" and living nature.
PARK AND 'OPEN ALL YEAR
The Park can offer to its guests:
• Free outdoor parking for cars and buses
• indoor parking for cars and buses
• two bars / eateries
• Restaurant (seats up to 300 seats) with specialties casentinesi;
• consecrated church where you can celebrate religious services
• space packed lunches for students and groups;
• children's playground
• botanical garden with plants from the Casentino valley
Direction: 0575-504541 / 0575-504542
Bar Restaurant: 0575-504541 / 0575-504542 / 0575-529079
Fax: 0575-504174
E-mail:info@parcozoopoppi.it
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