Piediluco lake is a lake in central Italy, on the shores of which stands the town of Piediluco, a fraction of Terni. Located at the south-eastern propagines of Umbria, with a branch that borders on Lazio, Lake Piediluco can be considered the largest natural lake basin in the Region, after Lake Trasimeno. The name seems to be interpreted as “at the foot of the sacred wood”. It represents, along with other small pools of water located in the province of Rieti, one of the remains of the ancient Lacus Velinus, a large basin of alluvial origin that formed in the Quaternary …
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