The Euganean Hills are a group of volcanic hills rising from the plain-padano Venetian few kilometers south of Padua.
The flora of the Hills is characterized by a large number of species. The different characteristics of soil composition, isolation from other mountain ranges and climatic variations, linked to glacial cycles and the post-glacial period, make the hills Hills a 'naturalistic island complex, where they live in close contact both in vegetation warm arid, both of a mountain or sub-mountain.