The longest river of Southern Italy with its 175 kilometres rises in Molise, at Rocchetta a Volturno and runs for a long way in the Apennine region, of which, after the Ponte 25 archi, marks the border with Campania.
It rises from Lake Matese and in the first part of its way, it is characterised by cascades and differences in heights.
It is an artificial lake, created in the 1960s to power the electricity station of Capriati al Volturno.
The peak of Mount Miletto is reflecting in its placid waters where they come from.
For the ancients, it was the river of the myth, which gave forgetfulness to whoever drunk its water.
Older than Vesuvius. It is among the biggest of Italy, but extinct since fifty thousand years ago. The Roccamonfina volcano rises isolated between the Aurunci Mountains, in Lazio, and in Campania Felix the plain of Garigliano and the Massico massif, separating it from the Tyrrhenian Sea.
With a surface of just over a square kilometer, the enchanting Lake of Letino was created at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to feed the hydroelectric power station of Prata Sannita.
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