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Hundred Horse Chestnut

AusTitz · CC BY-SA 4.0

80% trees around it and 35 species recorded.

71Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km80%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded35
  • Altitude702 m

The forest around

80% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 80%Shrubland 6%Grassland 6%Built-up 8%Trees 80%Shrubland 8%Grassland 9%Bare ground 0%Built-up 3%Trees 77%Shrubland 2%Grassland 9%Bare ground 4%Cropland 1%Built-up 7%Trees 57%Shrubland 2%Grassland 11%Water 11%Bare ground 12%Cropland 1%Built-up 6%80%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km80%
  • 1–3 km80%
  • 3–6 km77%
  • 6–10 km57%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees80%
  • Shrubland8%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up3%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

35 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Sweet Chestnut
Sweet ChestnutCastanea sativa5 recordsJLPC · CC BY-SA 3.0
Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea4 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus3 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Myrtle
MyrtleMyrtus communis2 recordsJúlio Reis ( Tintazul ) · CC BY-SA 2.5

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

71out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 80%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 35Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 702 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan12°4°67 mm
  2. Feb13°4°61 mm
  3. Mar16°6°51 mm
  4. Apr19°9°36 mm
  5. May24°12°16 mm
  6. Jun30°17°13 mm
  7. Jul34°20°6 mm
  8. Aug34°21°11 mm
  9. Sep28°18°53 mm
  10. Oct23°14°70 mm
  11. Nov18°10°83 mm
  12. Dec14°6°80 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hundred Horse Chestnut.

Largest and oldest known chestnut tree

Hundred Horse Chestnut is a notable tree in Italy, 702 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 80% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

35 species have been recorded around it: 5 plants, 0 fungi, 30 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sweet Chestnut, Olive tree and Laurustinus.

The best time to walk is in April.

Castagno Sant'Agata
AusTitz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Puntalazzo Jazz Festivalcampsite · 1.9 km · 5 within 10 km
  • Agriturismo Case Perrottaplace to stay · 0.8 km · 89 within 10 km
  • Sant'Alfionearest town · 0.9 km in a straight line
  • Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 32 km in a straight lineCar hire at CTA airport (Catania)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Hundred Horse Chestnut seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 25marked trails within 5 kmSentiero Ginestre tappa 2, Sentiero delle Ginestre tappa 3, 724 Case Pietracannone - Piano Provenzana - Passo dei Dammusi and 22 more
  • 39named and notable trees within 6 kmCastagno dei Cento Cavalli, Ilice di Carrinu, Castagno Sant'Agata and 36 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 kmPagghiaru and 7 more
  • 21shelters and huts within 6 kmBivacco Sastrugi, Pagghiaru, Rifugio Forestale Pianobello and 18 more
  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmMonte Fontane and 7 more
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmPuntalazzo Jazz Festival, Area attrezzata Spuligni, Mokambo and 2 more
  • 89places to stay within 10 kmAgriturismo Case Perrotta, La carovana di Stefano, Agriturismo Le Case del Merlo and 86 more
  • 19restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Hundred Horse Chestnut.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Monte Zoccolaro1,739 m · 7.7 kmMonte Frumento delle Concazze2,151 m · 8.3 kmP.zi Deneri2,792 m · 10 kmLa Montagnola2,581 m · 12 kmMount Etna3,357 m · volcano · 12 kmMonte Frumento Supino2,845 m · 12 kmMonte Silvestri1,986 m · 12 kmPunta Lucia2,932 m · 13 km
Islandyasthe island
Sicily25,662 km²
Coastya3 beaches within 10 km
Spiaggia Sant'Anna6.6 kmSpiaggia Fondachelo7.5 kmSpiaggia Praiola9.8 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Catania Astrophysical ObservatoryBortle 9 · 25 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Etna3,357 m · 12 kmGole dell'Alcantara15 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Gole dell'Alcantara14 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Grotta del Gelo125 m · 14 kmGrotta Azzurra19 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Hundred Horse Chestnut

Italy

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 35Species

Argotti Botanic Gardens

Malta · 214 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 181Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1520397) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species178 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Coastya, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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