The Regional Natural Park of Monte San Bartolo

The Regional Natural Park of Monte San Bartolo, established in 1994,colleague Pesaro to Gabicce and marks the beginning of the hills of the Adriatic coast of central Italy. The hill is the first high-stretch of coast from Trieste and allows a panoramic view of the coast and the sea, where the cliffs and the impressive flowering of broom gives unsurpassed color games behind crystalline water of the coast. From the green hills all'azzurro sea coast plunges into the water for a stretch of ten kilometers. The protected area has very beautiful natural areas: the flowering broom, the expanses of straws of Pliny, the Aleppo pine and the rare sea flax. The species present are still rising, the protected area are deer, foxes, badgers, porcupines as well as numerous sea birds and raptors.

The cliffs of the San Bartolo emerges from low beaches of Romagna and Marche as a succession of undulating spurs vellecole and degrading to the sea, interspersed here and by sheer cliffs. The shares of most high peaks close to the cliff do not reach the 200 meters, but they allow a broad view of the coast and the sea, while the cliffs are an unusual seascape for coastal sandy of Romagna and the Marche. The cliff shows areas of high geological interest with fish fossils and rare crystals of gypsum; runs behind a beach of fine gravel and pebbles used as a quarry until the second met the twentieth century, today protected by the Park's institution. Along some stretches of the coast have developed dense submerged meadows of Zostera marina and Cymodocea nodosa. These plants are a natural heritage of great value and are protected by Italian law on the conservation of Biodiversity. Grasslands submerged in addition to being a real "nursery" for many variety of fish, slow erosion and encourage the preservation of natural beaches.