The origins of Badia Prataglia, the most important inhabited centre of the Park, date back to a few years before the year one thousand. The current town owes its name to an abbey, founded by the Benedictines at the end of the tenth century and later passed to Camaldoli. The town was born from the aggregation of some houses around the church, the only remaining part of the ancient abbey. Today's parish preserves a crypt with traces of Romanesque origins. The craftsmanship of wood, widespread in the past throughout the Casentino, has maintained great traditions here. The Park Visitor Centre is particularly noteworthy, being dedicated to man and the forest, as well as the nearby locality of Il Capanno, from where the Nature Trail dedicated to the beech forest and the “for everyone” Path, set up for the disabled, both begin.