The List of Monumental Trees of Italy is enriched

ROME - The List of Italian Monumental Trees is enriched in a wide and considerable way with the 379 new registrations proposed by the Regions Campania, Friuli, Liguria, Lombardy, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily, Trento and Veneto, bringing our monumental arboreal heritage surveyed to 3,561 plant patriarchs.

In fact, the third update of the list was recently approved with a decree by the Director General of Mountain Economy and Forestry, with new registrations and also some reductions due to natural death, demolition or high structural and physiological deterioration. Result of an intense cataloging activity carried out, in a coordinated and synergistic way, by Mipaaf, Autonomous Regions / Provinces and Municipalities, the List is published on the Mipaaf website.

To identify the specimens that constitute it, the high biological and ecological value (age, size, morphology, rarity of the species, habitat for some animal species); the historical, cultural and religious importance they play in certain territorial contexts; the close relationship with architectural emergencies; the ability to signify the landscape both in aesthetic and identity terms.

And the new additions confirm the typologies: from the imposing group of the twelve hollies of Cervinara (Avellino) which appear as a single body and almost a single crown with a circumference of over 50 meters, to the ficus of villa Tasca, in Palermo, one of the plants largest in Europe for the area covered by the crown and for the height of 30 meters; from the secular chestnut of Canalaz, in Grimacco (Udine), with its large trunk opened by the explosion of dynamite hidden there by the partisans so that it could not be found by the Nazis, which with its circumference of 9.41 meters and the height of 16, 40 meters is now the most imposing plant in Friuli Venezia Giulia, in the gigantic oaks of Bosco Quarto, in the small town of Monte Sant'Angelo (Foggia).