In Italy, does anybody know where this is?

[vacontractor]

It is a forest in the shape of Italy. I have heard about it for years. I think it was planted during the fascist days by Mussollini's orders. Even my Italian friends have never heard of it.

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[simonramsden]

Only information I can find online is that it is in a region named Umbria.

If you google umbria "shaped forest" you wil lget a couple of hits - I'm at work so I can't see the results unfortunately.

 

[little big man]

Interesting; I recently read about the swastika-patterned trees that were planted in Germany in the 1930s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_swastika

 

[mallaig]

There are a few posts on Flickr who say it's Umbria, indeed.

Cheers.