Upcoming Guided Tours and Restorations of Monumental Trees in Verona Area
Numerous excursions scheduled in the coming days along the Veronese shore of the lake. Tomorrow, July 1st, at 9:00 AM, meet in front of the Novezzina refuge on Mount Baldo for a guided tour of the botanical garden and the trenches of Monte Erbe.
On Tuesday the 3rd, gather in the square of Costermano at 5:00 PM to visit villa Torri-Giuliari of Albarè and the church of S. Croce.
On Friday the 6th, in Caprino, meet at 8:30 PM in the square with a flashlight to experience “nighttime suggestions” in Valfredda and Naole.
On Saturday the 7th, as part of the series “historical testimonies and natural environment,” there will be a visit to the rupestrian engravings of Monte Luppia (meet at 9:00 AM in the parking lot of Punta S. Vigilio, Garda). In the afternoon, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, visit S. Severo and S. Zeno churches in Bardolino.
On Sunday, July 8th, the morning will be spent in the Sperane pine forest (9:00 AM at the square of the S. Zeno di montagna church).
On Tuesday the 10th, a visit to historical and architectural testimonies in the hamlets of Coi and Loncrino is scheduled (at 5:00 PM in front of the church of Torri).
On Thursday the 12th, an excursion to S. Martino, Porcino, Pazzon, Vilmezzano, Terre Rosse, Gaon, and the plane tree: meet at 9:00 AM in the monumental square of Caprino.
Restorations and interventions on monumental trees
We remind you that the hundred bersaglieri plane tree (so large that it hides many soldiers beneath its branches), which is 400 years old, has just been cloned. After a year of attempts, the students of the State Professional Institute for Agriculture and Environment of Isola della Scala managed to obtain two seedlings from branches taken from the giant tree and rooted in the soil near the school.
Attempts with other monumental trees in the Verona province have so far failed. These include the Quercus petraea oak of Tregnago, for which the Peri seedling nursery of the State Forestry Corps was involved, the Celtis australis pirlar in Corte Pietà (Sona), the Acer pseudoplatanus adaro in Erbezzo, and the Prunus mahaleb spin of Poiero in Velo.
