"Natural area of Ostiglia

The Ostiglia is a naturalistic area which arises along the route of an abandoned railway.

Since 1944, because of the damages provoked by the bombings during the world war two, the railway hasn't been longer in use and abandoned.

Its tracks became the ideal ground for the spontaneous and native vegetation preserved by every urban intervention (as it was a state-owned area ).

In 2007, a law wanted to improve the reuse of the old railway transforming it into a new ecologic path, for bicycles, walking people, horses and  people with limited mobility.

The biodiversity of the vegetation of this  ‘green corridor’is amazing. The arboreal and shub-like species along the verges of the path are willows (first of all Salix alba), poplars (Populus nigra and Populus alba), walnuts (Junglans Regia), hazels(Corylus avellana), elms (Ulmus) and black locusts (Black Locust pseudoacacia).

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