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Lake Trasimeno

Lake Trasimeno is located only 10Km from Holidays Apartments Le Cime Le Cime, the third biggest lake in Italy, where traditionally people can practice all water sports like fishing, sailing, canoeing, water ski besides sun bathing and swimming on the numerous beaches all well equipped and offering typical comforts. Additionally, in few minutes by boat, which depart regularly many times a day, one can reach the islands which are real uncontaminated oasis surrounded in a magic atmosphere.

Administratively the area around lake Trasimeno is in Umbria, but culturally and geographically it is both in Umbria and in Tuscany. It is located in a place where the border between the two regions is not clear, just like its traditions and gastronomy.

The Lake Trasimeno Park has been set up by regional law n. 9 adopted on 3 march 1995, with the objective to protect and enhance the value of this area of high natural, artistic and historical value.

On the lake there are three islands: Maggiore Minore e Polvese.

The Communes (boroughs) included in the Park are:

·        Castiglione del Lago

·        Città della Pieve

·        Magione

·        Paciano

·        Panicale

·        Passignano sul Trasimeno

·        Piegaro

·        Tuoro sul Trasimeno

Castiglione del Lago is located on a promontory which used to be the fourth islands of the lake, but then, further to the decrease of the water level, a new-born plain linked it to the mainland. This plain, along the lake’s coasts rises toward the hills that represents the physical border between Umbria and Tuscany.

Città della Pieve is a medieval village whose houses are mainly made of bricks.

Tuoro sul Trasimeno, is located exactly where the armies of Rome and Hannibal met in the famous battles of Lake Trasimeno more than two thousand years ago.