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Did you know that... italian lake curiosities
Other than Loch Ness... Lake Como has got its own monster too. They fondly call him Larrie, the “mystery from lake Lario”, it has made the news since 1946. In 1954 someone reported the sight of a 80 metres long creature with four webbed feet and a round face and tail. A huge eel that was more than 10 metres long had also been sighted. Is it a mystery? Is it true? I suggest you visiting the castle of Vezio to check a particular clue.
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In Pettenasco there’s a huge sling to throw the dragons’ eggs into Lake Orta. This installation is called ”Vers l’autre côté” by Roselyne Erutti and it is commonly called “sling”, it’s located at the bottom of the southern part of the lake’s promenade. It seems it is used to throw the dragon’s eggs into the lake to “increase the number of dragons”...
Swimming in the lake is much different than swimming in the sea. It is proved that it’s much more tiring to swim in the lake’s water rather than swimming in the sea water. In the sea the higher density of salt water enables the floating. Moreover swimming in the lakes is also more difficult and more dangerous because of the presence of whirlpools that can’t be seen on the surface.
Lake Garda claims the “Giants’ mufflers”. Its is near
There are also two italian lakes on… Titan! They are lake Bolsena and lake Albano, two among the most famous Italian lakes of Central Italy that are also present on distant Saturn’s satellite. Actually Titan is the only body of our solar system claiming two liquid basins but because of the very high temperature of around 180 degrees below zero these basins don’t contain water but they contain the ethane.
Fucino is the former third widest lake in Italy. Fucino was a lake in the Marsica area in Abruzzo. It was drained off in the second half of the 19th century by the prince Alessandro Raffaele Torlonia since the irregular level of its water caused many floods and unhealthy shoals. The Roman Emperor Claudius (52 A.D) had already tried to solve the problem. Nowadays Fucino is divided into 46 roads but they say that the output of the combination of these opposing roads is always the number 50.
