Isolino Partegora
45°46′8″N 8°34′40″E / 45.76889°N 8.57778°E
Isolino Partegora (known locally as Isulin) is an islet situated at the centre of the gulf of
. Most of the shoreline consists of marshy cane thickets, although there is a sandy beach at the southern edge of the island.The islet is about 96 by 36 m in size, with an area of roughly 3500 square metres.
Sass margunin, or margunée, is a submerged
erratic block
lying some tens of metres to the west of the island.
Near the shore facing the island is the Oasis of Bruschera natural park.flooded forests in Lombardy.[2]
It is said that the saints
Arialdo Alciato, the Milanese deacon and Patarine reformist who was assassinated in 1076 at the prompting of his archbishop, Guido da Velate. In 1776 Alessandro Volta, while a guest of the Castiglioni family in Angera, discovered marsh gas
, or methane, here.
References
- ^ "Gasolio nel lago vicino all'Isolino Partegora" [Diesel in the lake near the Isolino Partegora]. Varese News (in Italian). 12 February 2019.
- ^ "The Bruschera Oasis". Varese Land of Tourism.
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