Parco Naturale Regionale delle Madonie

This location is situated at 1,400m above sea level, along the border between Petralia Sottana and Castelbuono, and can be easily reached from Pomieri or from the mountain hut Sempria. For its monumentality among the environmental elements of vegetational importance, the Huge Hollies population of Piano Pomo stands out. One of the five nuclei forms a very thick wood, within which not a lot of light can filter through. The exceptional aspect of the biotope is represented by the extraordinary dimension of the single specimens, some of which reaching more than three hundred years of age, more than fourteen meters of height, and four in circumference