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Holidays Farm Cascina Baracca Educational Farm Ticino Park Vigevano Pavia

TICINO PARK

The Ticino river has always been a natural border between culture, nations, peoples, rulers, which have plenty of fortified this strategic area especially with watchtowers and castles. The river Ticino, instead of one of the most important routes that linked the Po Valley with Central Europe, since prehistoric times has represented a convenient waterway for all kinds of commercial traffic. On its banks have developed human settlements since ancient times. The landscape of the Park of Ticino is strongly characterized by the river and its valley, which are of great importance and a unique beauty. Next to the river valley, the landscape of the plains Irrigated  attest the rapid changes that man has practiced in these regions, The presence of several springs, of large hydraulic works, ancient systems of cultivation and other elements which characterize the agricultural landscape constitute a constant reference and great panoramic views in the valley of the Ticino.

The distinguishing signs shall be the canals, irrigation canals and industrial use, dams, water meadows, farmhouses in Lombardy, the mills, rice paddies, fields planted in cereals or permanent pasture, the cultivation of poplar trees. 
EDUCATIONAL FARM
The holidays Farm Cascina Baracca is also an educational farm in the Ticino Park ... and offers many suggestions to schools of all levels ...

TICINO PARK
The Holidays Farm Cascina Baracca is nestled in the beautiful woods of the Ticino Park ...

LEISURE TIME
The activities to be practiced on the farm and its surroundings, excursions in the Ticino Park on foot and by mountain bike, soft-river rafting, visits of the city of Vigevano

NEWS AND EVENTS'
Major cultural events, gastronomic and folkloristic, to discover ancient traditions ... in the heart of the forests of the Ticino Park, close to the blue river and just outside the city of Vigevano, offers plenty of entertainment leisure activities ...

Walking along the paths that surround the cabin Cascina you find yourself immersed in a beautiful landscape, from the point of view of nature and landscape has various peculiarities.

The river Ticino offers in this area, spectacular surprises: the riverbed widens rise to secondary branches, oxbow lakes, beaches and scree. The paths that lead to blue river crossing nature has very rich habitats of biodiversity: the mesophilic woods, Glades, areas of reeds and oxbow. With a little luck, you can also meet the inhabitant of the woods in the park are present interesting wildlife populations, wild mammals (badger, fox, roe deer, wild boar, small rodents), amphibians and reptiles that live in the thick of the forest or along the irrigation canals, while in more open areas along the river and the inhabitants ultimate are over 246 species of migratory birds, wintering and migrating.
To learn more about the Ticino Park, to organize guided visits on foot or by bike, with friends or family, visit the studio working with us: www.studioemys.it

Holidays Farm Cascina Baracca Educational Farm Ticino Park Vigevano Pavia