Bosco di Celeste

The Bosco di Celeste is the oldest and largest national park in Cattala. Founded in 1721 as a hunting ground and designated a Park for all Celestine in 1892, it has restricted development and urbanisation for centuries and continues to divide the cities of Celeste and Jennai.

History
The woodland and pasture lands around Amosseri had been used for hunting for hundreds of years previously, but in 1721 they were formally taken over by the Crown and turned into a vast hunting ground. Villagers needed permission from the government to build new houses or a new road through the woodland and it stalled the economy for decades, trapping the region in time as a subsistence agriculture belt. In 1802