Pian della Chiesa is set within the Montemarcello Natural Park, a protected area rich in biodiversity and cultural heritage, part of the Natura 2000 network. The estate spans over 40 hectares of forest, Mediterranean scrub, and former olive groves, vineyards and orchards, maintained with the goal of protecting a unique landscape and giving space to nature.
This land is a dense weave of diverse ecosystems: oak woods, pine forests, tall scrub, garrigue, and karstic caves home to kestrels, owls, badgers, dormice, salamanders and orchids, wild boars and oaks, wolves, foxes and hoopoes, foxes, martens, and strawberry trees.
The Park promotes active coexistence, recognising biodiversity as a common good and valuing cultural and agricultural heritage. It supports a dynamic balance between human activity and the natural environment in a living, ever-changing landscape.
Our philosophy stems from this: in some patches of land, we recover and maintain traditional cultivation, with humans as gardeners. On over thirty-five hectares, however, we let nature evolve freely - leaving land uncultivated, without productive goals, where it is the other species that become the gardeners.
To us, preserving nature doesn’t mean excluding man - but learning to coexist. Nature can be inhabited and cultivated, as long as we respect its rhythms, its rules, and its capacity to regenerate. It means doing as much as possible for, and as little as possible against
Resources:
- Il Territorio del Parco (Official site)
- Wikipedia: Parco Naturale regionale di Montemarcello-Magra-Vara
- Cartografia Rete Natura 2000
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