Csokonyavisonta Wooded Pasture Nature Conservation Area - Duna-Dráva NP (sitios de interés)
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| Territory of the protected area: 424 hectares. Location: The protected area stretches to the south of Csokonyavisonta along both sides of the road. Visitors: Freely accessible for visitors. Management: Directorate of the Duna–Dráva National Park Until the 19th man of m extensive oak forests, hornbeam-oak forests mixed with beeches stretched around Csokonyavisonta, just like in other districts of south Somogy. These forests were dotted with large meadows and pastures. Larger agricultural fields emerged only around villages. The special kind of keeping swine the so called masting developed in the regions of Dunántúl at several places from the middle ages with the increase of the population and the livestock. Feeding swine on masts means that the animals are not driven to valuable pastures but to oak- and beech forests, where the development of livestock is ensured with mast. Through centuries forests were cleared at many places, but closed forests became thinner as a result of masting, too. They were replaced with a characteristic man made association called grove or wooded pasture – one of the last representative of this touching scenery is the wooded pasture in Visonta. There lives an annual lawn association on its acidic sanded soil, with several hundred year old oaks solitarily or in little groups at other places. In recent years after giving up pasturing the area began to be more wooded again and it became weedy. Csokonyavisonta is also renowned for its thermal bath, curing rheumatic conditions, and it is worth commemorating the scientist János Xantus, who was born there.  Fishing lake near the village http://www.foek.hu/zsibongo/termve/tt/angtt/csokonya.htm |