What if the jog park where you do the jogging turns one day a mini natural resource with animals moving amidst the woods that you have never seen before. Certainly marvelous and amazing for anyone and perhaps that would change the life altogether bringing new dimension to it and rejuvenating the life as new. Situated in the middle of a highly urbanized area the Parco Regionale de Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli gives a similar feeling of its existence. With an area of approximately 24000 hectares the park was established in the year 1979. After many ups and down of political and social origin the park after establishment attained the stability its long waited for. The territory of park has its stretch along the provinces of Pisa, Lucca including the municipalities of Pisa, Viareggio, San Giuliano Terme, Vecchiano and Massarosa. The evidence of past water land, marshes and pond is present in the existing geomorphologic structure of the park. With its previous lagoons and marshes gradually covered by detritus carried by river Arno and Serchio the landscape prominently shows vegetation supporting it. The border in the west is delimited by Tyrrhenian Sea and the north by Massaciucoli Lake.

The inhabitants of park are of equal admiration as the park itself. The forest resource is admirable with trees like marine pine, marking the coast of the park while the domestic pine colonizing the estate of the park. These trees have a strong economic as well as medicinal value apart from the landscape beauty that it adds on. The park also nest species like Erica, lillatro, mirto, lentisco, and wild asparagus, which are of great significance in the botanical terms. Apart from these others to mention are the white poplar, the elm tree, the majestic farina, the hawthorn, the prugnolo and the frassino, which adds the various shades of beauty to the park.

Taking about the animal kingdom is like opening an encyclopedia of Mother Nature. Of all the other creatures present to be seen and adored by the visitor the park particularly is a gala feast for the bird watcher with its immense collection of both migratory and stationed birds. Apart from the better seasons of autumn and spring to go for bird watching winter is also the season to be relished. Few members to name would be the Fischioni, codoni, avocetta, the cane birds, mirliarini, the snipes, the woodcocks, stick red, stick green, civetta, and allocco. The others not mentioned here are also of great ecological significance. The mammal’s class however also shows great diversity starting from fallow deer to wild boar to wild rabbits to ghiro to red vixen. The count never stops in case of amphibians also variety of clams, bivalve mollusks and gastropods. The underwater miracles also have a vast collection of there own in the park with fishes ranging from luccio, tinca, eel, muggine, to the red gambero killer. Nevertheless to mention that such dense forest with the combination of wide grazing land is the perfect habitat for coleopters, butterflies and spiders.

Although the park management is well equipped to provide guidance and necessary amenities to venture the park but still it would not be a waste of time to know certain locations in park which can be called nothing other than the visitor’s paradise. Massaciuccoli Lake would be no bad choice to start with. The lake having a maximum depth of 2 meters is a creation of deltaic lagoon of the river Serchio and amazingly has a huge bank of rich and varied flora and fauna. Next to discuss would no doubt be the 4800 hectares area covered San Rossore Estate well known to the nature lovers for fortified environment and beautiful landscape. The typicality of the estate can be well understood by the strange limitation of the estate in four directions by water bodies. The north is delimited by the river Serchio while the east, south and west by Fossa Cuccia, river Arno and Tyrrheanian Sea respectively. The effect can be seen in well-established form by the presence of vegetation like sea bindweed and sea urchins in the coastal strip of the park. Last but not least to mention are the lames, which are more of symbolic representation of the park. Mostly found in the southern part of the estate these marshes forms covers approximately 400 hectares. This off course is the house of hundreds of birds and therefore is also frequented by the bird watchers. The lames and dunes certainly have ecological significance but more than that it signifies the importance of tourism in the park and therefore a blessing for the tourists.

The rest of the story is not to be told but only to be felt being in the scenario and then experiencing the eternity all by one self. The life can be seen in its true form only in its exhibition of creation collected in the small world of the park of Parco Rgionale de Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli.