Parco regionale dei Laghi Suviana e Brasimone

The Suviana and Brasimone lakes regional park (Parco regionale dei laghi di Suviana e Brasimone) is a regional park and protected natural area in the Bolognese Apennines, in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It lies in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, near the border with Tuscany, and extends around the artificial reservoirs of Lake Suviana and Lake Brasimone, together with the surrounding forests, ridges, villages and hydroelectric infrastructure. The park was established by Regional Law no. 38 of 14 April 1995 and covers 3,329.89 hectares in the municipalities of Camugnano, Castel di Casio and Castiglione dei Pepoli. Its territory includes two large reservoirs created for hydroelectric purposes, a largely forested mountain landscape, historical settlements such as Bargi, Baigno, Badi, Stagno and Chiapporato, and the Natura 2000 site IT4050020 "Laghi di Suviana e Brasimone". The park is unusual among protected areas of the Apennines because its landscape is closely connected with twentieth-century energy infrastructure. The difference in elevation between Brasimone and Suviana is used by the Bargi hydroelectric power station, a pumped-storage plant commissioned in the 1970s. The southern shore of Lake Brasimone is also the site of the ENEA Brasimone Research Centre, one of Italy's main facilities for research on advanced energy systems, liquid-metal technologies, fourt

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