It is an artificial lake, created in the 1960s to power the electricity station of Capriati al Volturno.

It rises from Lake Matese and in the first part of its way, it is characterised by cascades and differences in heights.

For the ancients, it was the river of the myth, which gave forgetfulness to whoever drunk its water.

Older than Vesuvius. It is among the biggest of Italy, but extinct since fifty thousand years ago. The Roccamonfina volcano rises isolated between the Aurunci Mountains, in Lazio, and in Campania Felix the plain of Garigliano and the Massico massif, separating it from the Tyrrhenian Sea.

It rises at the foot of Mounts Trebulani, at 86 meters above sea level, in the territory of Calvi Risorta.

With a surface of over 1500 square kilometers, the limestone massif of Matese stretches between Molise and Campania and falls within the territory of four provinces.