Trasimeno Lake Protected Area

• Manager: A Consorzio among Public Authorities
• Seat: Viale Europa - 06065 Passignano sul Trasimeno (PG)
• Tel: 075/828059
• Fax: 075/828059
• E-mail: parco.trasimeno@parks.it
• Surface: 13.200 ha
• Province: Perugia
• Established in: 1995

The Territory

The Park is the instrument to protect and at the same time exploit the Trasimeno Lake, the largest lake of the Italian peninsula with a surface of 128km/q, a little less than the Como Lake.
Besides the sheet of water, the Park includes all the bank system surrounding it, and therefore also the small and big historical centers like Castiglione del Lago and Passignano. The Trasimeno has been historically called "the lake of Perugia" and this definition clearly highlights the importance that the lake basin has always had and still has for all the north-western Umbria and for the territory of the Tuscan Chiana. The gravitation area on the Trasimeno and on its Park cannot easily be defined because it continuously changes in functions and time. The maximum anthropic pressure occurs during the summer with tourist and entertainment aims, and during this period the Sunday tourism consists of foreigners, resident population of the Province of Perugia, and of the Towns of the Tuscan Chiana up to Arezzo. On these occasions the visitors' presence was calculated in 30.000 units, without considering the inhabitants of the urban area around the lake.
If you consider these data together with the ones regarding the crisis of the level and the quantity of Trasimeno's waters - due to the annual precipitations lower than the regional average, to the absence of true tributaries to the hydrographic basin which is almost the double of the lake surface - it is evident the importance of defending the Trasimeno from the permanent and the excessive human pressure, from the production activities with a high use of water, and the importance of eliminating every polluting substance for a water body that extends itself on a wide surface but which is not too deep, from 3 to 6 meters.