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.

It rises from Lake Matese and in the first part of its way, it is characterised by cascades and differences in heights.

On its shores violets grew, and this is why the Greeks called it Clanis. The River Clanis rises on Mounts Tifatini.

Once known as Lake of Carinola, it is a volcanic lake at the foot of mount Massico, in the municipality of Falciano del Massico.

For the ancients, it was the river of the myth, which gave forgetfulness to whoever drunk its water.

For the ancient Italic peoples it was a sacred river. On the shores, they erected sanctuaries such as the Demetra and Teano one.