Rettilario di Perugia

Nice addition to the rest of the park.

Beautiful reptile house located in a picturesque tower in the parking lot at the entrance of the Sunday park in the hills around Perugia. Externally the reptile seems a kind of ancient arena, entering instead seems to enter a lush tropical jungle in which are inserted the various tanks of crocodiles and alligators in addition to the many terrariums with habitat reconstructed in detail to allow the animals a similar life to that of the environment of which they are originating, even if still in a cage. Really interesting is also the stable exhibition on the evolution that allows you to do an educational path with various interactive ideas. You can also find fossils of various kinds, including ancient prehistoric eggs and dinosaur remains, fascinating for adults but especially for children, if we can remember how excited we were dinosaurs when they were little. The tour of the reptile house lasts about an hour and admission costs € 5 for children and € 7.5 for adults. If you have also visited the park on Sunday instead is discounted at the single price of € 3.5 each. It is really worth visiting!

Interesting and well cared for, suitable for children but also for adults

The reptile house is located on the hill of the City of Sunday inside a tower that stands at the entrance to the park. Inside, several habitats for crocodiles and snakes have been recreated: made with particular care, the structures allow you to observe the animals in complete safety. The different habitats take into account the origin and the climatic-environmental needs (artificial rain, thermal substrates) of the sample they host, to limit stress to a minimum. This over the years has allowed us to achieve important reproductive successes. Darwin Tower - Starting from the 2018 season, the reptile house hosts a permanent exhibition on evolution. Guests will appreciate, in addition to live reptiles, also fossils belonging to different prehistoric eras. You can observe fossils of Adrosaurus eggs and Spinosaurus's teeth and nails, large dinosaurs characteristic of the Upper Cretaceous (99.6-65.5 Ma), and it is possible to observe and compare the skeleton of a crocodile's skull. Nile current with its ancestor Eusucus. Continuing we find exposed prehistoric finds dating back more than a billion years ago, the Stromatolites, limestone sedimentary structures that housed millions of bacteria and blue algae, the first life forms able to perform photosynthesis and produce oxygen. Interesting and very beautiful to see also the three large exposed fossil plates: the first with numerous stars and blastoids, some crinoids, exclusive echinoderms of the Paleozoic (541-252 Ma); the second with a fortnight of eldonia, ancestors of the jellyfishes, enigmatic extinct animals lived between the lower Cambrian (501-488.3 Ma) and the upper Ordovician (460.9-443.7 Ma); the third with fossils of trilobites, important animals, considered the first complex form of life appeared on earth representing the emblem of the Paleozoic era (541-252 Ma). Other emblematic fossils on display are the ammonites, the fossils par excellence, used in stratigraphy for the dating of sedimentary rocks especially from the Upper Paleozoic to the entire Mesozoic (251-65.5 Ma). You can observe ammonites of various sizes belonging to different groups, in a closed or turned spiral, with or without spines. The exhibition, which occupies a substantial space inside the building, also features the fossil of the fauces of a mosasaur, one of the largest extinct marine reptiles, lived in the Upper Cretaceous (70-65 million years ago), close to this also fossils of Ittiosaur and Dyrosaurus. The path ends with very beautiful findings of a skeleton of the head of a cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), the jaw and the femur of a Mammuth, dating back to 100,000 years ago (Pleistocele) and a very rare cast of a Saharan graffiti depicting a bovine.

Many species from different parts of the world. great place to let children discover the world of reptiles