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The
path to reach the woods begins from the "Varo" and after the Benedictine convent
(more or less 120 meters) continues for 200 meters until a fork: from here one
path goes to the left and brings after a few meters to the ridge from which begins
the path to the lighthouse (Faro); the other path goes ahead forking after a few
meters in two other little more rough paths, that bring to the woods the first
one passing on the ridge and on "Monte Pellegrino" (194 meters), and the second
one passing on their side. From the "Monte Pellegrino" you can see that the whole
orographic skeleton of Zannone forms an epsilon with it's centre exactly on "Monte
Pellegrino" and develops from east to west dividing the island in three faces:
the first one, a slight slope on the southern versant is rich of a thick scrub
that looks like a real green carpet. It extends to the west side for more than
forty hectares and is a very good pasture for the mouflons and shelter for the
quails. The second face on the northern versant, right in front of "Circeo", woody
and steep slope towards the sea is very picturesque and measures forty hectares.
The third face opens to east and consist in a subsidence of more than twenty hectares
delimited by two spurs: it is covered by a thick oak-grove of medium height. The
woods of Zannone until 1944 were used to furnish wood, charcoal, and leafy boughs
for ovens.
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