Lago di Bolsena

Another attractive place in northern Latium is the Lago di Bolsena (alt. 305m/1,007ft; area 114 sq.km/44 sq.mi; up to 151m/496ft deep), known to the Romans as Lacus Vulsiniensis. The lake occupies the crater of a collapsed Tertiary volcano. In the southern half of the lake are two little rocky islets, Bisentina (361m/1,191ft) and Martana (377m/1,244ft). On the island of Martana the Gothic queen Amalasuntha, only daughter of Theodoric the Great, was strangled in her bath in the year 535 on the orders of her co-Regent Theodahad.