Cascata delle Marmore
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·August 23, 2025panzerboiler
I remember swimming in the natural pools carved by the falling water in my youth. Before the opening time of the waterfall, there were alarm sirens to tell the people enjoying the bath to get the hell out of there. Good times. Nowadays it is strictly prohibited to even get close...
throwanem
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dang
Please don't do this here.
throwanem
"This" referring to the effort to call attention to our industry's collective responsibility for the various so-called "tragedy of the commons" enclosures we so handsomely profit by creating, or to the evocative vulgarity to which I resorted in so striving? But excuse me, of course you're well within your rights so to admonish me in either case, and I will prefer other venues for that topic accordingly.
Wikipedia has a map [0] which shows the extent of the ancient lake (Lago Valino) the Romans drained (the waterfall is in the upper left corner). This lake had a surface area of around 90 km², which is roughly half the size of present-day Lago Maggiore.
[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Anticola...