  Just
a few kilometres from that ancient boundary between hills and plain
which is the Via Emilia, the Faenza Apennines offer a rare natural
setting and an incredibly varied heritage of fauna, flora and geological
outcrops.
In the centre of the “Terre di Faenza”, straddling
the valleys of the Lamone, the Senio and the Santerno, the Romagna
Chalk Vein is an actual low mountain chain consisting of a succession
of steep chalk cliffs. These peculiar rocks have, with time, undergone
the modelling action of water, creating numberless karstic phenomena
including almost two hundred caves: the most important are perhaps
the Den of King Tiberius – at Borgo Rivola – and the
Tanaccia Cave not far from Brisighella, also because they were
used in prehistoric times. The Chalk Vein moreover is home to a
particularly diversified flora which includes the very rare Cheilanthes
persica and is rich in fauna, outstanding among which are the eagle
owl, the porcupine and numerous bat species.
 The Carnè Park,
in the Brisighella area, is one of the most evocative corners of
the Chalk Vein and of the entire Faenza Apennines. This safeguarded
area is moreover specially suited to nature study, an activity
promoted chiefly by associations and cooperatives such as Pangea
and Atlantide which offer nature excursions and cultural stays.
The strip between the Chalk Hills and the plain consists of the
evocative landscape of the Romagna erosion furrows, created by
weather erosion of clayey rocks that the locals used to call “earth
for making jugs”. Institutional activity is no less important:
 the Faenza Natural Science Museum, set in the Botanic Gardens,
houses interesting collections of fossils and stiffed animals from
Faenza territory. Lastly, special mention should go to the Progetto
Life Ambiente TORRE which, through private and public financing
and a contribution from the European Union, has been able to rehabilitate
an abandoned quarry in the Oriolo dei Fichi area, upgrading it
as an equipped oasis for the observation of rare bird species such
as the variegated bee-eater.
Interesting links: Agrisystem:
www.racine.ra.it
Associazione Feste e Sagre:
www.feste-e-sagre.it
Associazione Fattorie Didattiche
www.regione.emilia-romagna.it
Associazione per la Torre di Oriolo:
www.torredioriolo.it
Atlantide:
www.atlantide.net
Centro Turistico Ambientale Cà Budrio - Cooperativa
Sociale Zerocento - Cooperativa Sociale Primabi:
wr.racine.ra.it (Cà
Budrio)
www.zerocento.coop (Zerocento)
wr.racine.ra.it (Primabi)
Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori (CIA):
www.emiliaromagna.cia.it
Consorzio per la valorizzazione dei prodotti
tipici dell'Appennino faentino (COPAF)
www.aerproc.com
Cooperativa Agricola Brisighellese (CAB):
www.brisighello.net
Federazione Provinciale Coldiretti:
www.coldiretti.it
I Casolari delle Erbe:
www.icasolaridelleerbe.com
Il Giardino delle Erbe:
www.ilgiardinodelleerbe.it
Il Paniere dell'Appennino faentino:
www.il-paniere.it
Riolo Golf & Country Club
www.racine.ra.it
Strada del Sangiovese – Strada dei Vini
e dei apori delle Colline di Faenza:
www.stradadelsangiovese.it
Corolla delle Ginestre
www.racine.ra.it
Parco Carnè:
www.comune.brisighella.ra.it
Ristorante Fava:
www.ilgiardinodelleerbe.it
Vena del Gesso:
www.venadelgesso.it
Istituto Statale per l'Agricoltura e l'Ambiente:
www.villaorestina.it
Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali:
www.museoscienzefa.org
100KM del Passatore:
100km.dinamica.it
FITETREC-ANTE:
www.fiteec-ante-emilia-romagna.it
Gran Fondo Cassani:
www.granfondodavidecassani.it
Ippoverde:
www.ippoverde.it
Comunità Montana dell'Appennino Faentino:
www.comunitamontana.ra.it
Provincia di Ravenna:
www.racine.ra.it
Camera di Commercio di Ravenna:
www.ra.camcom.it
Regione Emilia-Romagna:
www.emiliaromagnaturismo.it
Unione di Prodotto Città d'Arte:
www.cittadarte.emilia-romagna.it
Unione di Prodotto Appennino e Verde:
www.appenninoeverde.org
Unione di Prodotto Terme:
www.emiliaromagnaturismo.it
APT Emilia-Romagna:
www.apt.emilia-romagna.it
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