The Fucine Lake (Italian: Lago Fucino or Lago di Celano) was a large endorheic karst lake between 650 and 680 m … See more

The Fucine basin is the subject of numerous neotectonic, paleoseismological, archaeoseismological, and paleoenvironmental geological studies due to the peculiar "visibility" of its sediments and the str… See more

Virgil mentioned the lake in book 7 of the Aeneid, in that it weeps for Umbro, the healer priest killed tragically in battle. (See line 7:882 in the Fagles translation). See more

Lake Fucine was a karst lake system, whose only real tributary was the Giovenco River, entering the basin from the northeast, just after the town of Pescina. The lake also collected, especially in the winter perio… See more

Although the Romans had chosen Fucino as a holiday resort, it was in their era that the need to drain and reclaim the lake began to emerge. The southern areas of the lake were those most subject to flooding an… See more

• Fucine Inlet
• Fucino Space Centre
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