Matese.biz - A travel in the "Regional Park of Matese" with its imposing taps, the numerous paths and medioeval villages, beautiful landscape to stamp and to ride on horseback or on a mountain bike, the blue sky marked by the wings of the hang glider, tastes and perfumes untouched in their fragrance: mushrooms, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, that you can find in some unpolluted places. Here still survive old trades, popular music, song, tales, job tools, typical costumes, it is in these typical expressions, that they assume characteristic and original aesthetic features, giving so the idea of tradition and values of our people. In this place are born agricultural products and works of the intellect that are so rare to the point of being unique; chestnuts, olive oil, mushrooms, pecorino cheese, caciocavallo, "burrini", sacked, fournace products, wine, the "peschiole", roast chestnuts, mint and pumpkin marmalades. Furthermore, art, creativity, fantasy: these are the colour of ceramics, copper, the inlaid wood, the old craft-made shops, the pasta homemade, the typical dresses. The map that will take across the paths of this little enchanted world is ready to make you find that the wonder is still possible, among the alleys of a village clung on the top of a bridge or under an old portal, or in an old courtyard, where life is on a human scale.

  Like on all mountains of Campania, the great spread of breeding and a particularly destinate hunting, have remarkably reduced the spaces for the wild fauna.
Among the mammals, however, the red deer, the wolf, the rate, the wild cat, the weasel, the squirrel and the hare are still present.
  The bear was present in the past, but there are recent signallings of a new presence of the plantigrade.
  Between the birds it stands out the majestic Golden Eagle, that nets on mount Mutria and in the Hell Valley.
  We have, moreover, the owl, the cuckoo, the kestrel, the travelling hawk, the sparrow-hawk and many nocturnal predaceous.
  In the woods we can listen to the rhythmical strike of the red woods peacker and the characteristic callback of the cuckoo.

  The waters of Lake Matese, where still lives a discreet ichthyic fauna, that numbers traits, eels and cyprinids, give a good stop point to the migratory birds, for their insufficient depth and for the thick reed thickets that surround them.
On the rivers, we can lie in wait for the great grebe, for which Lake Matese is one of the most important reproduction stations in Italy, the gallinule, the wild duck, the dipper and the ducker.

  On the slopes of Mount Miletto the travelling hawk, ruler of these cliffs, still nests.
Park of Matese to discover, to live and to tell is a few kilometres from Caserta and Naples, there is an oasis that is waiting for you, in order to let you live rare emotions.
  For every season, a different colour and taste.

  The white of the snow, on the alpine ski run of Bocca della Selva or on the cross-country circuit of Monte Orso; the flourishing green of summer, between the luxuriant forest, the thousand shadings of the nature in autumn and spring, when the colours are magical and tenuous.

  In this idyllic landscape the Bag and Dreams Tour operator of Piedimonte Matese has been suggesting for same year, through the own catalogues and the net of sale of the travel agencies, cultural and religious routes, visit to churches, castles, unpolluted nature and the Golden Eagle.

  There are routes constructed on a tracing without interruptions, that cover old paths or dirt roads, through charming landscapes, medieval villages and castles giving the idea to travel through the history.

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