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Lake Vagli and Morandi Bridge

Name: Lake Vagli and Morandi Bridge
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Location: Vagli Sotto, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

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1. Lake Gramolazzo – Lake Gramolazzo loop from Castelnuovo Garfagnana

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2. Lake Gramolazzo – Lake Gramolazzo loop from Piazza al Serchio

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3. Lake Vagli and Morandi Bridge – Lake Vagli loop from Castelnuovo Garfagnana

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

September 15, 2024

Lago di Vagli (Vagli Sotto) - That's all it needs to be / Day 13

Last day of vacation in Green Tuscany. Temperatures rise above 40°C.
In search of cooling, which we find on the banks of the Lago di Vagli reservoir.

We are triggered by the sunken village, Fabbriche di Careggine, which was evacuated in 1947 to create a reservoir for the public interest. This village had a beautiful Romanesque church from the 13th century, a few houses and a cemetery. Every now and then the church tower of the village appears above the water. In a haze of mystery and the mirage above the water surface, we hope to catch a glimpse of the spire.
The ghost village only reveals its hidden secrets every 25 years. The last time the reservoir was drained for maintenance work was in 1996 and was allowed to receive millions of visitors. Due to corona, the draining has been postponed. Now we are looking forward to a new period when the lake will be drained once again. Ruins will then reveal their secrets again... will the church tower of San Teodoro still be intact? It is also said that the spirits of the deceased residents then return and haunt the village, a real ghost town...
'More' is all we need for that...

Ponte Morandi and Ponte dei Fanti di Marina let us enjoy beautiful views over the idyllic lake, the picturesque village of Vagli Sotto with the beautiful green mountain landscape in the background.

We walk past the statues of Parco dell'Onore e del Disonore in an exemplary manner. Here 'Honour and Dishonour' stare out over the surface of the water. The statues of Trump and Putin are only worth a two-second glance. We complete our discovery adventurously along the shady banks of Vagli Sotto. With a delicious lunch behind us, we finally leave...
The heat is getting too much for us, returning to our B&B seems like a good idea...

Read more experiences? Click through to komoot.com/nl-nl/collection/2195535/-visit-italy-2023-regio-massa-carrara-lucca

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Frullo

August 25, 2024

The body of water is located in the municipality of Vagli Sotto in the province of Lucca and was formed artificially with the damming of the Edron stream in 1947 by SELT Valdarno (now Enel s.p.a.) and the construction of a hydroelectric dam designed by Count Eng. Ignazio Prinetti Castelletti as recalled by an inscription fixed to the wall between the steps on the western bank. In 1948 the works on the dam were completed with the subsequent raising to 92 meters. The rising waters of the lake submerged some villages among which the main one was Fabbriche di Careggine, a small village of blacksmiths from Brescia, founded in the 13th century, which re-emerges every time the lake is emptied. The lake contains approximately 35 million cubic meters of water and is emptied exceptionally if maintenance is necessary. It has happened four times: in 1958, 1974, 1983 and 1994. The new emptying was expected for 2024, but due to the water needs caused by recent droughts, it was decided to postpone the emptying to 2026 (unless it becomes necessary to postpone it again). The wait for the new emptying is linked to the tourist attraction offered by the re-emergence of the village of Fabbriche di Careggine, whose structure (including the beautiful church of San Teodoro) is still substantially intact under the waters of the lake.

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