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Lake Iseo - Bergamo

Place for meetings and exchanges, useful link and transportation way, the lake Iseo is, since centuries, the natural reference point for Brescia and Bergamo people, who did settle down along its sides. Furthermore the lake is today an environmental component of great importance for the numerous centers that show themselves on it and for both provinces; an estate to be guarded and estimated, also considering the role that Sebino is more and more assuming as far as the leisure time and tourism is concerned.

The great mass of water, the variety of landscape, the artistic and cultural patrimony of the centers around its sides and inland, together with Franciacorta rich in historical memories, patrician villas and vineyards that give excellent and renowned wines, make up an ensemble of great value, which deserves to be well-known and appreciated even more nowadays.

Lake Iseo is really different from any other lake: simple and picturesque, at once tame and wild. A Romantic lake, dear to poets and painters. Set in a splendid range of mountains, fed by Oglio River, at 185 meters above sea-level, the lake has a maximum depth of 251 meters, an average width of 2.5 kms and a 60 Km perimeter. It is also called lake Sebino (from the Roman "Sebinus Lacus") and is the seventh longest lake in Italy.
It lies only a few kilometers from Bergamo and Brescia and from the Orio al Serio and Linate Airports:. At the center of the lake stands Monteisola, the largest lake island in Europe. There are also two smaller islands; one to the north, one to the south, called Loreto and S. Paolo. An amazing variety of natural beauties in a landscape continually changing in light and colour. In summer the climate is cooled by constant breezes and in autumn and winter sunny days are frequent. The small lakeside towns are pleasant to visit and explore, full of memories of their glorious past and with deep-rooted traditions.
History is always present whilst modern life rarely intrudes on the peaceful atmosphere. All along the coast there are comfortable hotels, boarding-houses, camp sites and modern facilities for bathing and all other sports. A short trip from the Sebino will take you to Capodiponte, whose Neolithic age engravings attract people from all over the world. Boario Terme and Angolo Terme are well-known spas. The Franciacorta region covered in vineyards produces a number of well-known wines; Montecampione is famous for winter sports

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