Tourist information
Geographical context
The Valtellina Orobie Mountains Park is in Lombardy, on the Valtellina side of the Orobie Alps:
It comprises 25 local administrative areas (territories of towns and villages), covers 46,280 hectares and comprises an altitude between 360 and 3,050 metres.
The Natural Park comprises 10 different areas covering some 6,000 hectares, established according to legislation on protected areas.
There are 46 small/medium-sized areas of botanical interest, specially selected because of their significance for damp, rocky, snowy, pre-glacial or wooded environments.
There are 14 medium/large-sized areas where wild life is the main interest; here animal populations are protected in their natural habitat.
11 sites have been identified as corresponding the European Union’s “Habitat Directive” for conservation of animal and plant species and particularly interesting habitat on a community level.
