Lago di Ganzirri

Beautiful

Beautiful place "parallel" to the sea ...

Beautiful place where you can also take beautiful walks along the lake and relax a little! I recommend it to all the people who love nature when visiting the city of Messina to enjoy this wonderful show

Lovely place, nice and welcoming people

Too bad it is not well cared for, since it is a characteristic place of Messina and of great beauty. The views of the lake could be something very beautiful, if it was properly cared for. It still remains a 5-star beauty, despite the man. Very easily reachable from all over Messina through the ATM line number 1 From Wikipedia: It extends, stretching in the NE-SW direction, for an area of ​​about 338,000 m², has a length of about 1.7 km and a width of about 250 m, its maximum depth is about 7 m. It has an average temperature that varies between 11 ° in January and 31 ° in August. It is fed by groundwater and some streams that flow into it, so the level of salinity varies greatly between summer and winter. Two canals, built by the British around 1830, allow the entry of water from the sea, the Carmine canal to the north, and the Catuso canal to the south which is covered, these are kept open or closed according to the need to oxygenate the waters which tend to encounter the phenomenon of eutrophication. A third channel connects Lake Ganzirri with Lake Faro. The current lake of Ganzirri was born from the merger of a smaller basin with the same name and a basin located to the NE and called Madonna di Trapani, at the melting point the seabed is very low and practically prevents the exchange of large masses of water. water between the two basins, creating two different microenvironments. In recent years there have often been phenomena of large fish deaths in the lake due to the sulfur dioxide developed by the bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, which emerges when the waters are stirred by opening and closing the channels. [Citation needed] Together with the lake of Faro, it has been declared a particularly important asset of ethno-anthropological interest, as it is the historical site of traditional production activities linked to mussel farming and telliniculture. Lake Ganzirri today is entirely surrounded by a densely urbanized area, it seems that some buildings already existed in 1500. [1]. However, the marshy and unhealthy environment and the difficulty of defending the coasts from the frequent raids of the Barbary pirates prevented any urban development until the eighteenth century, so all that existed were a few scattered houses of fishermen and mussel farmers and a few warehouses. [2]. Between the lake of Ganzirri and the lake of Faro in ancient times there was a quagmire called Margi, reclaimed in the nineteenth century by the Bourbons, in the center of it there was a temple dedicated to Neptune, very difficult to reach due to the pestiferous exhalations of the swamp.