Oasi Zegna

The Oasi Zegna is a natural area in the Province of Biella, Piedmont, Italy. It was created by the entrepreneur Ermenegildo Zegna, founder of the factory of the same name in Trivero, who wanted to give his village infrastructures and parks. He also created tourist attractions, such as ski slopes and the Panoramica Zegna, a panoramic road.[1]

The Oasi Zegna in winter

History

The Zegna family founded Oasi Zegna in 1993 as a nature park.

Environmental education

The project Oasi Zegna aims to develop the environmental education, especially for young people.

Since its creation, the Oasi Zegna has cooperated with international organizations like TEMA, a Turkish organisation against desertification, WWF in China, RFA (Rain Forest Alliance), MGF (Moanalua Garden Foundation), AOC (American Ocean Campaign) and EMA (Environmental Media Association) in United States.

In cooperation with EMA, the Oasi Zegna gave prizes to showbusiness personalities such as Sting, Trudi Styler, John Travolta, Ted Danson and Olivia Newton-John because of their ecological commitment. In 2001 with AOC, the Oasi gave a prize to Bill Clinton.[2]

The Oasi also collaborates with the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano[3] and the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.

Ecomuseum and interesting sites

The Oasi Zegna is member of the Biellese territory ecomuseum in order to preserve the pastoral and mountain tradition like beekeeping.

Interesting sites near the Oasi are:

The ski area

The Oasi's ski area, founded in 1957, is located in Bielmonte.

See also

References
  1. (in Italian)Oasizegna.it
  2. (in Italian)Oasizegna.it
  3. (in Italian)

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