Fusaro Lake

The Lago Fusaro is a shallow lake in Ischia.

It is located west of Naples in Campania. Only a narrow coastal strip separates him from the salt water of the Tyrrhenian Sea on the Gulf of Naples. Since fresh water flows, it is filled with brackish water and thus forms a special habitat where, for example occurs Green Samtschnecke. It is volcanic in origin. One uses it, among other things. the oysters.

1782 built Carlo Vanvitelli, son of Luigi Vanvitelli, is on a small artificial island for Ferdinand I at the Manor a hunting lodge (it.: "casino da caccia "). Jakob Philipp Hackert painted in the following year for the king spot a picture called " hunting on the Fusaro Lake " and was visited there by Joseph II and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The work was stolen in 1799 from the Lazzaroni; only the sketches have been preserved, they got Albert Casimir of Sachsen -Teschen.

In ancient writings, he was called " Acherusia lacus " or " Acherusia palus ". From an applied in ancient channel Opus reticulatum is still preserved. Adjacent to find yourself with Baiae and Cumae ancient sites.

Lina Wertmuller turned here in 1999 the movie " Ferdinando e Carolina ".