Test Drive | Page 66

A “RIB” of the Musone River Nature knows how to make the most amazing landscape but so do humans and sometimes by modifying the countryside, we humans are also able to make something even more beautiful and unique than nature itself. This is what happened in the 1980s when the course of the River Musone was interrupted by the Castreccioni dam creating the lake of the same name. Today a tourist attraction for locals and visitors to the area, the dam comes alive especially in spring and summer months when visitors enjoy the sun in a very unusual natural setting, relishing the local food prepared by the n