The vegetables that are grown here are highly appreciated across Italy for their distinguishing quality and taste.
Surrounded by low hills, this wide and shallow valley was not always occupied by farmlands.
Fucine Lake, orLago Fucinoin Italian, was the source of misery since ancient times.
Such a grandiose project had never been attempted before.
Landslides and collapsed tunnels claimed untold number of lives.
Eventually, the tunnel was completed.
The combatants were prisoners who had been condemned to death.
The spectacle on Fucine Lake was a carnage, as Romannaumachiausually were.
kilometers to under 60 sq.
Other canals and connecting wells were also added.
The work was concluded in 1870, and in 1873 the gradual draining of the Fucine Lake began.
In five years, the lake was completely drained leaving behind 140 square kilometers of fertile land.
In 1942, a second tunnel or emissary was dug to compensate the functions of the original.
A 23-feet-high statue of the Immaculate Conception decorates the structure.
Entrances to the major tunnel.
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The outlet of the tunnel.
