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The Protected Area
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Identity Card
- Land Area (ha): 600,00
- Marine area (ha): 12.600,00
- Regions: Umbria
- Provinces: Perugia
- Towns: Castiglione del Lago, Magione, Panicale, Passignano sul Trasimeno, Tuoro sul Trasimeno
- Establishing measures: LR 9 3/03/1995 - LR n. 24 del 23/07/2007
- PA Official list: EUAP0234
Park Authority: Comunità Montana - Associazione dei Comuni "Trasimeno Medio Tevere" |
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The Park
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It is the largest regional park in Umbria.
The territory extends along the perimeter of Trasimeno lake and includes three islands: Polvese Island, the largest one, property of the Province of Perugia, which is used as educational and environmental research center; Maggiore Island, the second one for size, where you can find a small fishermen village dating back to the 15th century; Minore Island, which is private property.
The Park is a wetland of great importance. The lake, set among the
gentle hills of Umbria, has always represented an important wintering,
rest, and reproduction area for the aquatic birds and an ideal habitat
where several fish species can live and reproduce. The towns developing
on its shores, the small fishermen village, and the hand-made
canebrakes cutting convey to these places an "out of time" atmosphere.
Fishermen are the real protagonists of Trasimeno: they have always
animated the lake - as they still do - with their particular boats,
braving the worst storms; they are the real guardians of the secrets of
this particular naturalistic casket. Their devotion to these waters,
generally handed down from father to son, as well as their knowledge of
the moon phases have always made them mythical characters particularly
inserted in the natural-lake context. It is still possible to enjoy the
presence of people busy fixing the fishing nets and cutting the
canebrake.
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The Islands
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Polvese Island
Polvese Island is situated in the
south-eastern part of Trasimeno and with its 70 ha is the largest of
the three islands of the lake. The area is of particular naturalistic
interest for the presence of a high-trunk ilex grove, a centuries-old
olive grove, and a large canebrake, an ideal rest and wintering place
for a great number of aquatic birds. The island, with its several
evidences, is also very interesting from the historical and
anthropological points of view.>>>
Maggiore Island
Situated
in the territory of the Municipality of Tuoro, where you can leave by
ferry boat for the visit, it is the one and only inhabited island. It
still preserves the characteristic aspect of the 15th century village
created by fishermen; for this reason, every year it is the destination
of thousands of visitors searching for uncontaminated places.>>>
Minore Island
We
do not have many documents about Minore Island, the smaller of the
three islands of the lake. Called until the early 20th century "small
island", today it is part of the Municipality of Passignano, it is
private property and uninhabited.>>> |
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The Lake and its Environment
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Given its considerable size and shallow water, Trasimeno Lake - of
tectonic origin and set among the gentle hills of Umbria at the borders
with Tuscany - has always represented a very important rest and
wintering area for the aquatic birds and an ideal habitat where several
fish species live and reproduce. Shallow water, luxuriant canebrakes,
and clear waters rich in food are the real recipe for the presence of
aquatic birds preferring marshy waters: among them, Northern shovelers,
wigeons, mallards, teals, garganeys, and gadwalls.
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