Environment and nature

Landscapes and paths of the museum.

The geological itinerary of Monte Cinto

Walking along the sidewalk that runs along the Museum towards the east, two signs of Regional Park of Euganean Hills that mark the beginning of the path of Monte Cinto are met. The beginning of the path takes also at the complex of quarry of calcareous material that fed the furnaces from the second half of the '800 until the 1960s. The connecting walkways to the furnaces on which the Decauville railway cars passed through full of stones to cook and coal for combustion are visible. At the quarry's base, for the happiness of the little ones, two life-size dinosaur reconstructions are located: the biggest one is a Brontosaurus-Apatosaurus, made according to the representations now reviewed, the smallest one instead is the so-called "Antonio", the Tethyshadros insularis rediscover at the Villaggio del Pescatore in Trieste. Also in the quarry there is an original and useful geological path that explains the euganean rocks exposed on site.
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Fossile

The path of Monte Cinto

Departure

Cava Bomba place - Cinto Euganeo (Cinto Euganeo)

Arrival

Cava Bomba place - Cinto Euganeo (Cinto Euganeo)

Walking time are calculated for a trained hiker, they may vary depending on the preparation and the specific interest for the peculiarity of the route. The path begins 100 meters from the square of Cava Bomba's Geopaleontological Museum, on the left of the road in the direction of Cinto Euganeo's downtown. The path goes up the south calcareous side of Monte Cinto. After a little stone house, a vineyard set on terraces and surrounded by olive trees is run along, then cross uphill a grove of robinia pseudoacacia and go on keeping the path that crosses a thermophilic oak forest rich of quercus pubescens, fraxinus ornus, erica arborea, cistus, ruscus aculeatus and wild asparagus. After a short uphill curve, equipped with wooden fence, a plateau where the old dirt road flows into that once was used by the rhyolite quarrymers is reached; here some masegne vines, volvano blocks left to conduct the rule of benches. From the plateau the left is kept and the rut is continued along in the chestnut grove; after a pair of sweet hairpin turn, the view opens up over the central-southern hills, from Venda hill to the nearby Gemola hill with Villa Beatrice d'Este, up to the more distant Rua hill and Monselice and Baone's hills.

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