You may find a deep spirituality in ancient convents, places of peace and silence where for centuries nature has been the main aim. Small and great stories, events of noble families and everyday life of those who lived in the mountains or woods. Inside the Park, numerous are the evidences of history, art, life and centres of faith an culture able to speak to the world.

The Monastery and the Hermitage of Camaldoli: "You will be fir because your highness in contemplation". The faith and a special relationship with nature gave life to a story that is almost a thousand years old.

The tradition establishes the institution of the Hermitage in 1012 by St. Romualdo who visiting those places … quite still and leant to his stick: now looking there, then in the opposite side because everything but the sky was visible and on the ground, only high trees and birds singing, so helping the contemplation and the admiration for that silence and loneliness.

Camaldolese Congregation had a great role during Medieval times and established numerous monasteries and got estates both in Italy and beyond the Alps. It pursued a temporal command over a wide area of Casentino, always taking a great care for the prosperous forest that surrounds the Hermitage and the Monastery. Also nowadays Camaldoli is not only the perfect centre for numerous excursions in the Park but also it is a religious landmark of international worth, destination of pilgrims and travellers that may dip in the serene atmospheres of the Monastery and in those more mystic and rarefied of the Hermitage, with its cells and boundary wall made up of a thousand fir trees and thousand times enclosed.

La Verna: "the world has no mountains so sacred". A holy Sanctuary to all the Christianity, it is a humble refuge immersed in the woods where St. Francis lived and received the Stigmata. It is a place full of a deep wonder and almost mystic. Since 1214 frails sheltered the mountain where the Sanctuary is set: a mountain with numerous caves, gorges, crags and where the rich vegetation has been left spontaneous. La Verna, thanks to its notoriety and its undoubted charming that engages in everybody, it is the destination of pilgrims and travellers coming from all over the world that love its powerful signs and messages of faith and the numerous masterpieces gathered in the Sanctuary.

Signs of history, signs of art: ancient and copious, everywhere. In every village of the Park of the near valleys you may find castles, palaces and walls reminding the ancient splendours of the Medieval and Renaissance times that took place in these areas of Tuscany and Emila-Romagna. Churches, parishes, towers, fortified villages, ancient bridges draw this landscape and give wonder to every travellers' eyes and thoughts.