Lake Pergusa

10km/6mi south of Enna (SS 561) at an altitude of 667m/2,188ft lies the oval-shaped Lago di Pergusa. Situated between two mountain slopes covered with eucalyptus trees, it is 1km/0.5mi wide, 2.2km/1mi long and 4.6m/15ft deep. According to the myth: Persephone (in Latin, Proserpina) was seized here by Hades, while she was plucking flowers, and taken down into the underworld.