Die offizielle Tourismus-Website der Gemeinde und Metropole Florenz
Die offizielle Tourismus-Website der Gemeinde und Metropole Florenz
Die offizielle Tourismus-Website der Gemeinde und Metropole Florenz
Die offizielle Tourismus-Website der Gemeinde und Metropole Florenz
Die offizielle Tourismus-Website der Gemeinde und Metropole Florenz
Die offizielle Tourismus-Website der Gemeinde und Metropole Florenz
Immersing oneself in the forest or forest bathing is the new all-natural therapy that removes stress and depression. These are not fairy tales; scientific studies have observed the beneficial effects of being immersed in a natural environment surrounded only by scents, lights and sounds being released by plants and animals that live there.
An innovative project by CNR, Club Alpino Italiano, Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi, Comune di Vaglia and Ordine dei Servi di Maria has identified, among others, the forest of Montesenario as the ideal place for forest therapy.
Forest therapy sessions are walks in the woods lasting 2 hours and a half, a ring road not requiring particular physical effort, supported by clinicians such as qualified psychologists or psychotherapists.
Its peculiarity: you proceeed in silence, making many stops and focusing attention on the connection between our senses (sight, hearing, touch, sense of smell) and the surroundings, for the purpose of producing beneficial effects on our health.
Trees release volatile organic compounds (BVOC including so-called terpenes) that are extremely positive for the mental and physical well-being of people.
The events in the forest of Montesenario start on May Saturday 28 and continue all summer long, until October.
Information on each event can be found here
Comune di Firenze
The Sanctuary of Monte Senario is located in a highly suggestive context: an isolated promontory, an oasis of greenery with a 360 ° view that includes the entire Mugello valley and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The hermitage is one of the most important in the whole territory and according to tradition it was founded on 8 September 1233, when, on the day of the Nativity of Mary, seven Florentine monks, abandoning their wealthy life, retired to hermit life by founding the Order of the servants of Mary.
The complex was enlarged and enriched by Cosimo I De' Medici in 1539, then renovated in Baroque forms in 1717.
Inside the church there are valuable paintings including an Adoration of the Magi by Cigoli, in addition to the splendid wooden choir of 1707, carved in elegant Baroque forms. The refectory hosts Matteo Rosselli's Last Supper.
Not far from the church there are some caves that were the first houses, the first places of meditation for the Seven Holy Founders.
