Its crown of peaks and glaciers, spread between Piedmont and Aosta Valley, offers impressive environments and spectacles. Seventy thousand hectares of protected nature, where the masters are ibexes (the park’s symbol), chamois, groups of marmots, martens, stoats, foxes, badgers, golden eagles, sparrowhawks, and, more recently, the bearded vulture, which has returned after decades of absence.
But nature is not everything; even the signs of human presence make the park evocative and inviting, starting with the network of well-maintained and marked paths and mule tracks, silent mountain huts and alpine pastures, valley museums and peasant culture, the mines of Cogne, villages and hamlets with unchanged charm; the Paradisia Alpine Botanical Garden tel.016574147.
Wonders that families, youngsters, and school groups can enjoy in many ways: from guided excursions to eco-friendly holidays, from cheerful picnics to engaging educational workshops.
