Barrea lake - Italy

Barrea lake

Barrea is a comune in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

It is located on the shore of the Lake of Barrea, a lake created after World War II due to the building of a dam on the River Sangro.

Today, Barrea is at the center of the National Park of Abruzzo, a natural area rich in wildlife and recreation and lacking any aspect of urban commercialization. The village contains many monuments to its sufferings in World War II, when the Germans took it over and thus subjected it to Allied bombings. Perhaps the foremost village hero is Aldo DiLoreto, a captain in the Italian air medical corps, who organized resistance movements in the hills around Barrea. He was captured by a German patrol and was shot to death by an execution squad in Villeta Barrea. It is said he fell to his death saying "Long Live Italy."

Barrea lake: map