Lake Tovel

The mountain lake is located in the Val di Non (Non Valley), in the Parco naturale dell'Adamello-Brenta (Brenta Adamello Nature Park). Its clear, green-blue-turquoise water is a feast for the eyes. On the hiking path gently winding around the lake, you can stroll comfortably and close to the water. Sufficient seating invites you to linger.

It seems to be in the earthly paradise

Il lago di Tovel è un lago alpino situato nella val di Tovel, sul territorio del comune di Ville d'Anaunia in Val di Non (Provincia di Trento), at an altitude of 1178 m s.l.m. and all'interno del Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta. La valley si insinua dall'abitato di Tuenno per 17 km tra il Monte Peller a ovest e il massiccio della Campa a est, fino all'imponente circo roccioso delle Dolomiti di Brenta che circoscrive l'alta valle, dove è situato il lago.

E stato anche chiamato lago degli orsi perché sono presenti alcuni orsi bruni nella valle, e lago rosso per il fenomeno dell'arrossamento delle sue acque, che avveniva fino al 1964 per azione di un'alga (Tovellia sanguinea)

Lake Tovel, Italian Lago di Tovel, is a lake in the Brenta Adamello Natural Park in Italy. Roughly triangular in shape, it is about a kilometer long and about 500 meters wide. This makes it the second largest lake in the “Brenta Dolomites” with a surface area of around 382,450 m². Its maximum depth reaches 38.5 m, the sea level is 1177.2 m s.l.m.

Two tributaries feed the lake: the torrents Rislà and S. Maria Flavona.

The lake became known for the algae blooms that occurred in the warmer summer months until the mid-1960s and gave the lake a dark red color, which is why it was also called the "red lake". This colouration, which is unusual in freshwater lakes, was caused by the mass occurrence of a microalgae from the group of dinoflagellates, the 20 μm large Glenodinium sanguineum. Investigations attribute the occurrence of such a mass increase to the phosphorus content and the light conditions. In 2009 and 2010, this phenomenon also occurred at Seealpsee in Appenzell.