 Vegetation includes holm oak, oak, cork oak, beech, pine and chestnut, which once formed large forests but are now, mostly due to human presence, reduced to sparse woods so that the landscape is largely steppe-like.Several pine woods have been reconstituted by the local authorities since the 1950s.An ancient path, , runs along the ridge line from Monte Dinnammare above the Strait of Messina to the Rocca di Novara.