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An impressive nature trail leads to the spruce forest on the Nabois mountain. High-quality stringed instruments are made from this wood. In order to be used by luthiers, the spruce should have few knots, closely spaced growth rings marked with a "V", features that depend on the particular environmental factors found here: the trees need to grow slowly and in a dense forest, where the lack of sunlight prevents the growth of low branches and on hillsides that are not very steep and poorly ventilated. To explain the curious sound phenomenon that the wind produces by moving the tree branches, legend has it that Stradivarius' soul wanders here playing his violin.