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Apennines are the mountains in Italy. Their highest mountain is Corno Grande which is 2 912 metres high. The Apennines have three main parts: the Northern Apennines, the Central Apennines and the Southern Apennines.

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  • Bocchetta di Altare

    The plaque marking the Bocchetta di Altare

  • MonteCimone3

    Monte Cimone (2165 m) in Emilia Romagna, is the highest mountain of the northern Apennines

  • Colonna tevere

    Source of the Tiber, marked by a column with an eagle and wolves, part of the Apennine fauna and symbols of Rome

  • Gran Sasso in clouds

    Gran Sasso and Campo Imperatore

  • Prateria sul Passo San Leonardo - panoramio

    Majella massif

  • Monti Picentini

    The Monti Picentini, in the Campanian Apennines.

  • Pizzo Carbonara

    The Pizzo Carbonara, 6,493 feet (1,979 m), is the highest peak of the Sicilian Appenino siculo, which forms part of the Calabrian southern Apennines.

  • Pietra di bismantova castelnovo monti

    The Pietra di Bismantova, Emilian Apennines, Emilia-Romagna

  • ItalyPillowBasalt

    A pillow lava from an ophiolite sequence, Northern Apennines

  • Gran Sasso mountain Corno Grande

    Corno Grande

  • Il versante settentrionale di serra Dolcedorme (dalla cima meridionale di Serra delle Ciavole)

    Serra Dolcedorme, the highest summit in Southern Apennine

See also

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