Petrella Salto: Borgo San Pietro - Lago del Salto
Built beside the reservoir created by damming the Salto River, Borgo San Pietro grew into a lakeside settlement within the municipality of Petrella Salto in Lazio. Lago del Salto is an artificial lake in the Cicolano, a mountainous district east of Rieti, where wooded ridges descend to long arms of water. The reservoir was formed in 1940 for hydroelectric production, a project that submerged the original Borgo San Pietro and led to its reconstruction on higher ground. Today the settlement is associated with the lake’s small inlets and shore roads, while the surrounding Apennine terrain gives this corner of inland Lazio a markedly different character from the region’s better-known urban centres.
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Petrella Salto is best known in Lazio for Lake Salto, a reservoir created in 1940 by a dam on the Salto River for hydroelectric generation. The Salto, a tributary of the Velino, once ran through a narrow Cicolano valley; today the lake winds between wooded slopes of the central Apennines. Borgo San Pietro, beside the dam, is one of the municipality’s settlements and reflects how the reservoir has shaped local life since the twentieth century. Roads around the shores link scattered communities in a less urban corner of the province of Rieti. Discover other points of interest through webcams located across Lazio.
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