Santa Sofia: Caselle: Passo la Calla
Few places in the Tuscan–Emilian Apennines have a history as closely tied to crossing the divide between Romagna and Casentino as Passo della Calla. At 1,296 metres, this mountain pass lies on the boundary of Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany, linking Santa Sofia with the Casentino side of the range. It also marks the watershed between streams flowing toward the Adriatic and the Arno basin. The pass is enclosed by the beech and mixed woodlands of Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna National Park, one of Italy’s major protected forest areas. Nearby Campigna was a Grand Ducal forest, managed for timber under the Grand Duchy of Tuscany; that legacy helps explain the long-standing importance of these upland woods.
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Santa Sofia is best known within Emilia-Romagna for the Campigna forest, a beech-and-fir landscape in the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna National Park. The town stands on the Bidente River in the Apennines, where Romagna meets the wooded slopes toward Tuscany. Its administrative past reflects that borderland: Santa Sofia belonged to the Province of Florence until 1923, when it was transferred to the Province of Forlì. Today it is a useful base for walks around Campigna and for exploring the park’s forest roads, while the centre retains the compact scale of an Apennine settlement. Browse other webcams across Emilia-Romagna and the Casentinesi Forests to place this setting in a wider geographic context.
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