Lake Trasimeno is located in northern Umbria, on the border with Tuscany. The fourth largest lake in Italy (128km2), it measures 6m at its deepest point and owes its name to an ancient legend about the Prince Trasimeno and his love for the nymph Agilla. There are three islands in the lake: Polvese, Maggiore and Minore.
In 217 B.C.E. the lakeside was the site of one of the most important battles of the Second Punic War when Hannibal’s Carthaginian troops defeated the Roman Legions. George Gordon Byron compared the lake to a “veil of silver” and, over the centuries, it has bewitched numerous poets, painters and travellers.
The lake is a wetland where wild duck, cormorants, kites and kingfishers crowd among the dense rushes and in 1995 it was included in the Lake Trasimeno Regional Park, which extends for 13,200 hectares across the municipalities of Castiglione del Lago, Magione, Passignano, Tuoro and Panicale.
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