"Lake Pilato also resists drought
and is a sort of miracle, even if due to the fact that the abundant snowfall this winter on the Sibillini mountains is allowing the reservoir to still have water": this is what Urbano Barelli tells ANSA , Perugian lawyer and well-known lover of the Umbrian-Marche Apennines.
The famous lake with its only inhabitant, the chirocephalus, is located at an altitude of 1,940 meters and for the umpteenth time Barelli reached it on Saturday at the end of a long excursion that began at dawn.
"Because of this year's drought - he says -
I feared the worst and that is that the lake had disappeared
. Instead it is there, even if it is not known if it will arrive in autumn, but for now it is there".
For some months, Barelli has also been engaged as a project manager for the environmental assessments and authorizations of the Lombardy Region within the framework of the NRP.
"Every year, in this period - concludes Barelli - we return to Lake Pilate to see if, as in San Gennaro, the miracle of its survival, of its liquid consistency after the thaw, is repeated".