Facility Network

In less than a decade from its foundation, Majella National Park created a complex network of structures for all kinds of visitors (schools, groups, individual or natural scientists).


Visitor Centers
Managed by an experienced staff, able to organize itineraries and activities in the Park, often these structures host expositions and regular museums enabling visitors to meet with natural, historical and cultural characteristics of the Park. All of these centers are provided with reception points for visitors, informative materials, issues, videos and gadgets on free distribution or sale; many of them also feature a projection room, a library, educational labs and guest quarters. In some case the center manages a faunistic area, a botanic garden or a nature route.

For further information please visit the pages linked to the centers:
Visitor Center Caramanico Terme (PE)
Visitor Center Fara San Martino (CH)
Visitor Center Lama dei Peligni (CH)
Visitor Center Sant’Eufemia a Majella (PE)




Information Centers
These facilities provide an effective help for Park tours of schools, groups or individual visitors. At these Information Centers are available informative materials, issues, videos and gadgets on free distribution or sale. They are managed by an experienced staff, able to set-up itineraries and activities inside the Park.

For further information please visit the pages linked to the centers:
Information Point in Bolognano (PE)
Information Point inCampo di Giove (PE)
Information Point in Caramanico Terme (PE)
Information Point in Guardiagrele (CH)
Information Point inPacentro (AQ)
Information Point in Pennapiedimonte (CH)
Information Point in Pescocostanzo (AQ)




Museums
In addition to the Visitor Centers, museums and expositions, the Park boasts a museum entirely dedicated to the Marsican Brown Bear. The museum is located in Palena (Chieti), near another Park facility: “Casa dell’Orso” (Bear House). There is a reception point with informative items, issues, videos and gadgets on free distribution or on sale. The museum is managed by an experienced staff, able to arrange itineraries and activities inside the Park.

For more details please visit the pages related to the museum:
Museo dell’Orso bruno marsicano in Palena (CH)




Faunistic Areas
The Park created several faunistic areas hosting its most interesting species from an educational, scientific, reintroductional and health point of view. The animals living inside these areas are not there just to satisfy tourists wonder, but they also live in an habitat that looks like their native one and that, providing very wide spaces inside of it, allows them to breed even in this condition. Not only being an educational purpose, their presence enables researchers to collect more details about their species. Acquiring this knowledge will support us while enacting the proper preservation and safeguard policies towards the specimens living free. These animals are very often reintroduced in nature. It is possible to visit the Faunistic Areas contacting the staff (often made up from cooperative societies of local young people) or the Visitor Centers mentioned above.

For more details please visit the pages related to the Faunistic Areas:
Faunistic Area Apennine Chamois of Lama dei Peligni (CH)
Faunistic Area Deer of Gamberale (CH)
Faunistic Area Roe of Serramonacesca (PE)
Faunistic Area Apennine Wolf of Pretoro (CH)
Faunistic Area Otter of Caramanico Terme (PE)





Botanic Gardens
Conveying the rich vegetable heritage of its territory is one of the institutional priorities of the Park Authority. For this reason two Botanic Gardens have been built for native plants: the “Daniela Brescia” Botanic Garden in Sant’Eufemia a Majella and the “Michele Tenore” one, placed respectively on the western and the eastern slopes of Majella. Both play a significant role in the safeguard of spontaneous species, encouraging the use of native plants for restoration works as well as spreading the environmental topic to the people. These botanic gardens host the floristic species of the Park and, in general, of the Central Apennines. It is possible to visit them contacting the Visitor Centers of Sant’Eufemia a Majella and of Lama dei Peligni mentioned above.

For more details please visit the pages related to the Botanic Gardens:
Botanic Gardens “D. Brescia” in Sant’Eufemia a Majella (PE)
Botanic Gardens “M. Tenore” in Lama dei Peligni (CH)




Other Facilities
Hereafter there is a list of other Park facilities offering a wide range of services to individual visitors, groups, schools, researchers and undergraduate students. These structures are managed by an experienced staff, able to give infos about the Park and to arrange various activities.

Campeggio “L’Eldorado” di Gamberale (CH)
“Casa del Lupo” di Caramanico Terme (PE)
“Casa dell’Orso” di Palena (CH)
“Centro del Gusto” di Rapino (CH)
Ostello “Macchia del Fresco” di Fara San Martino (CH)
Ostello “la Poiana” di Roccamorice (PE)