Parco Nazionale del Gargano

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People ride mountain bikes down a dirt path through a dense forest. Fallen leaves lie on the ground.

One of Italy's largest national parks, a place of sweeping coast and deep, ancient forests, sits on the spur of southern Italy in Puglia, jutting out into the Adriatic Sea.

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