Excursion to "La Mandria" Regional Park

11th march 2005, departure around at 16h00 from the conference site

For organisational reasons, please communicate your participation in the excursion during the registration to the conference, to be done by accessing to the "on-line Registration" session.   

Programme of the excursion:
16h00: departure from the conference site
17h00: visit to Borgo Castello and to Royal Residence with Italian /English guide
19h30: dinner offered within the Park
21h00: tour in the Park by night to discover wild animals  (by bus)

"La Mandria" park is one of the most important houses of the Savoy monarchy. It is an "historical" park near Torino. Its morphology is characterized by alluvial terraces where woods alternate with wide pastures, little lakes and agricultural lands. The variable rural landscape invites you to relax and at the same time to enjoy the precious architectonical aspects: royal residences dating back to the times of the king Vittorio Emanuele II, like castles and hunting lodges, besides farmsteads of the previous centuries and ancient churches. The vegetation of the area derives from an ancient forest rich in oaks and ash trees and offers shelter to many species of animals (http://www.parks.it/parco.mandria/Eindex.html)