Monti Pelati e di Torre Cives Special Nature Reserve is a narrow strip of about 3 square kilometers situated in the Municipalities of Baldissero Canavese, Vidracco, and Castellamonte. Pelati Mountains are modest reliefs almost without vegetation, set at the westernmost end of the green hills of the morainic amphitheater in Ivrea. Their main feature, from which most of the other features derive, is the nature of the subsoil.