Lake Massaciuccoli:

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Lake Massaciuccoli  nature and music
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• Lake Massaciuccolis perimeter is 10 kilometres
• Lake and marshes cover about 2000 hectares
• Separated from the Tyrrhenian Sea by 4 kms of
  land
• Shores were more extended in the past
• Depth between 3 and 4 metres
• Sea coming up to the lake in the Roman era
  ?important commercial port

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THE OASIS OF MASSACIUCCOLI

• It is in Tuscany within the National Park of San
  Rossore

• Established in 1985

• Characterised by all the environments associated
  with lakes

• Clear water and marshland have an extension of
  about 47 hectares

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THE VISIT OF THE OASIS OF MASSACIUCCOLI
Archeological Area
Natural environment
Lake Massaciuccoli and Music
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Archeological Area
Mansio tavern where travellers on the road
between Pisa and Massa could stop and eat
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Roman Villa (1st 2nd centuries A.D.)
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Remains of roman spa bath (1st-2nd centuries A.D.)
Baths consisting in frigidarium , tepidarium and
calidarium
Differences between frigidarium and calidarium
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The pathways small wooden walkways suspended
over the marsh
What they are

• to make accessible an area not ready for visits
• to contemplate the flora and fauna of the lake

Why they are needed
Methods of construction in the past and in the
present
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Problems of the lake

• The water is not limpid but brown
• Reasons
• Result

• excessive growth of brown weeds
• use of chemical substances in the surrounding
  fields
• weeds getting into competition with one another
  and producing toxic substances

death of fish living in the lake
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A more detailed investigation into the problems
of the lake

• eutrophication of the water
• silting up of its bed
• algae dont allow the sun rays to filter through
• algae reproducing in exponential manner

• Negative elements
• Negative consequences

• the process of photosynthesis of
  marine plants cannot be completed
• fish disappears because of lack of
  oxigen and food

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FLORA
Typical flora sedge and marsh-cane
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Limited area with varieties of plantlife unique
in the marshes of Southern Europe
166 plant species
waterlilies
dropwort
marsh cane
pink hibiscus
fen euphorbia
yellow iris
because of land reclamation part of the Flora
and Fauna has been eliminated
Negative aspect
Typical phenomenon
formation of floating islands
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Fauna
Penetration from neighbouring environments ?
changes of the local Fauna
Ideal route for migratory birds passing through
or wintering here
Different types of birds
grey herons
little egret
flamingo
black-winged silt
cormorant ,, ,, , , etc.
osprey
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Ducks
Pochards
Dun-birds
Coots
Priority delicate ecological balance must be
preserved
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Museum of the Ecology of the Marshes
Specimen of Gambusia in the Museum of the Ecology
of the Marshes
A grey heron
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Lake Massaciuccoli and Music
Lake also famous for the great musician Giacomo
Puccini
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• He lived in a house on the shores of the lake
• Refuge and place of inspiration
• Love for hunting artist friends
• supreme joy, paradise, Eden,spiritual basin,
  extraordinary sunsets
• Id like to listen to one of my operas in the
  open air

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• Home to Festival Puccini
• 1930 La Boheme performed in a temporary theatre
  on the lake
• 1966 Open Air Theatre on reclaimed land with the
  lake in the background

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2008 New Grand Open-Air Theatre inaugurated on
the 150th anniversary of the birth