Parco Regionale dei Laghi di Suviana e Brasimone
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Points of Interest
Tireless Aeolus...
Suviana is the ideal destination if you really love windsurfing. The
best athletes from Emilia and Tuscany populate it also in winter. It
seems to be whipped by a "super" wind, and it is no way inferior to
other well-known places for windsurfing, like lake Garda or the
Tyrrhenian Sea.
Also canoeing-lovers will find "water for their
oars". Also the other artificial lake, Brasimone (capacity: 6.5
millions of cubic meters) is ideal to calmly glide over the waters.
Like Suviana, Brasimone lake is very important for its different water
and energetic uses. Downstream, in the Suviana outlet Limentra, you can
engage in breathtaking descents among the rapids.
History
Two lonely valleys between Emilia and Tuscany
Inaccessible mountain areas far from the main historical routes, the
Park locations have left scarce traces in the most ancient documents,
and only since medieval times it is possible to have a clearer idea of
the territorial organization.
As far as the previous periods are
concerned, besides important Etruscan finds in location Camugnanese
rather far from the Park (like the little votive statues of Monteacuto
Ragazza), the knowledge on the first settlements of these valleys is
mainly linked to Roman finds (coins near the stream Brasimone and in Le
Mogne, some little statues in the nearby of Castiglione) and to signs
suggesting a steady presence of Lombard garrisons in Stagno, Bargi, and
Castiglione dei Pepoli.
