The Dunes of Circeo and tourism

The dune is the area of the park which suffers the most due the high number of visitors mainly during the summer months between June and August. The park authorities had to concede some developments by allowing some beachfront development to spring up between the dunes, albeit these consist of mainly by private homes rather than hotels.

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Nevertheless, for nature lovers, the dunes offer a quiet and beautiful landscape especially during the spring and autumn. The sunset is a great moment to enjoy the natural scenery of the dunes, fired up by the red of the sun, with the sky striped by small white clouds and flocks of cormorants that flying over the lakes. Not far away the colors of the evening are accompanied by the changing reflection of the sea.

The dunes’ fauna is more limited and numerous in comparison with the less accessible forest, wetlands and promontory habitat and many of its inhabitants can be observed mainly out of peak season and during the night with footprints left as a prove of this hidden world; You will be able to see the footprints of the animals that live in the dunes, like foxes, wild rabbits and seagulls. In spite of the numerous summer tourists both flora and fauna of the dunes survive fiercely exposed to continuous blows of the wind and to high temperatures in the sunny climate of the coast.

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For those who are interested in taking a closer look at the many species of birds that live or pass by on the coast of the park, the best seasons are the middle ones. In the dune there are: the fox, the wild rabbit, the weasel, the badger, the porcupine, the roller, the hoopoe, the spotted flycatcher, the whitethroat, the blackcap, the serin, the golden oriole, the oystercatcher, seagulls, while in the undergrowth between the lagoons and the dunes lives the porcupine.

Dunes main wildlife:

* European Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
* Cuckoo Cuculo (Cuculus Canorus)
* crested porcupines (Hystrix cristata)
* European Brown hare (lepus europeus)
* Western Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
* Common Vole (Microtus arvalis)
* Striped Field Mouse (Apodemus agrarius)
* Wood Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)

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