Botanical Garden "Maria Ansaldi" Pania di Corfino

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The Giardino Botanico "Maria Ansaldi" Pania di Corfino (about 7500m2) is a botanical garden located an altitude of 1370 m in the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park, near the visitor center of Orecchiella Natural Park in Isera, Corfino, Villa Collemandina, Province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was established in 1984 to collect and preserve indigenous flora of the Apennine Mountains, Garfagnana valley and Apuan Alps. As such it reproduces environments typical of the region, including heath, hills, moor, pasture, and scree; it also contains an arboretum.

Today the garden contains about 400 varieties of plants as well as botanical specimens and fossils.