Parco Regionale dei Laghi di Suviana e Brasimone

Lake Brasimone
The basin has an area of approximately 0.5 km², a maximum depth of 29 m and a capacity of about 6 million cubic meters of water, which are retained by the Scalere dam (35 m high). The Enea Brasimone Research Center is located on the southern shore of the reservoir, next to Villa Ruggeri (an early 1900s residence now housing the Agency's offices). There are small picnic areas along the shores of the lake, which is inhabited by fish species that were mostly introduced here in the past and by a plankton population similar to that of Lake Suviana, resulting from the continuous mixing of the waters from the two reservoirs. Even in the Brasimone basin, the dam was constructed along a narrow stretch of the valley against solid sandstone walls at the start of the Brasimone gorges and it flooded a large hollow of clay-rich land.