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Visiting Green Tuscan Giants is a great way to stay in touch with nature even during a trip to Tuscany and understand how powerful nature can be
Beyond the usual visits to the cities of Lucca Pisa Viareggio or Pietrasanta. I propose a splendid tour perhaps by motorbike or Vespa from May to October
Tuscany a nature – loving region established a 1998 law to protect and enhance monumental trees giving them a higher level of naturalistic and historical value.
Visiting Green Tuscan Giants : Olive Tree of Thirty Wooden Clogs in Massarosa
The olive tree of Thirty Wooden Clogs is a thousand-year.old olive tree a giant of nature. Immense gnarled hallowed out inside
Its name is cutious because the writer George Christoph Martini saw fifteen olive pickers simultaneously climbing its trank on this enormous tree. Thirty wooden clogs!!
You can find it in Campo Romano, Piano del Quercione. See the map below
Visiting Green Tuscan Giants : Bolgheri Cypresses
How could I not mention the Bolgheri Cypresses among the Green Tuscan Giants ?
The Viale dei Cipressi in Bolgheri is a very long avenue that extends along this 5 km long bumpy road 2,400 centuries – old cypress trees line the road on both the right and left eventually reaching the charming medieval village
Immortalized in the famous verses f the poet Giosué Carducci they are protected not only because they represent Tuscany as a symbol and a perfect pairing but also because they represent the typical Tuscan landscape throughout the wolrd.
Here you can combine your love of nature with a toast in the nearby Bolgheri DOC wineyards
Immortalized in the famous verses of the poet Giosué Carducci, they are protected not only because they represent Tuscany as a symbol and a perfect pairing, but also because they represent the typical Tuscan landscape throughout the world.
Here you can combine your love of nature with a toast in the nearby Bolgheri DOC vineyards.
Visiting Green Tuscan Giants : The Witches ‘ Oak in Capannori
An immense magical canopy seems to pierce the sky with branches extending from heaven to earth. A monumental beech tree over 500 years old
The Witches ‘Oak takes its name from a legend where witches supposedly gathered in its branches for their rituals
Visiting Green Tuscan Giants : The Holm Oak of Faltognano ( Vinci, Florence)
The Holm Oak of Faltognano which has stood for at least 300 years dominates the hill that was Leonardo da Vinci’ s birthplace with a spectacular view of the valley below.
Choose to sit beneath it to admire nature the freshness and the essence of the Tuscan landscape
Tips for showing respect to the Green Tuscan Giants
Avoid stepping on the roots avoid leaving litter do not climb and remain silent.