Querceti di Quasano: excursion in the Alta Murgia National Park

Immersed in the wild nature made up of rocky pastures and thick oak forests extending as far as the eye can see, native remnants of an ancient cover of spontaneous vegetation much larger than the current one, a place of botanical study on some rare species of spontaneous orchids. The excursion starts from Quasano, at the gates of the Alta Murgia National Park, a hamlet of Toritto (BA), and after saying goodbye to the monumental Tree of the Lie, we will enter the oak forest, along shaded paths, animated by the bells of the grazing cows, we will reach the panoramic point where we can admire the Adriatic Sea and the ancient Jazzo Lamadenza among expanses of wheat, habitat for amphibians and dragonflies. In this place of transhumance you immediately have the feeling of retracing the steps of the people who lived here a few centuries ago, where there is no shortage of large wild mammals, birds of prey, less common reptiles, such as the green lizard and the viper, and food plants and aromatic herbs. of the Murge.