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Also called Mare Morto (Dead Sea) because of its progressive silting up, it is a shallow coastal lagoon communicating with the port of Miseno, joined to the sea by a small canal that crosses the beach of Miliscola. Like the port of Miseno, it occupies the bottom of a crater and in the imperial age became the inner basin of the Portus Miseni, the operational base of the Roman military fleet in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The classis misenensis, transferred in 12 B.C. from the Portus Julius (built in 37 B.C. in the double basin of the lakes of Avernus-Lucrinus), depended directly on the emperor and controlled the whole western Mediterranean. At the time of Emperor Tiberius, the Misenum was the port of the fearsome Roman ships equipped with rostrums. But the lake is also the mythical Stygian Marshes, the domain of Charon, the helmsman from hell who receives the souls of the dead and ferries them on his boat to the underworld. As Virgil recounts (Aeneid VI, 241-275), the lake owes its name to Misenus, the Trojan trumpeter and herald of Aeneas, who died in the sea in front of the lake and was buried on the promontory dedicated to him.Lake Miseno covers an area of 46 hectares (60 hectares if the surface of the shores and dune tracts is also taken into account) and is an ecosystem of great environmental interest that can be appreciated during excursions on the lake (by sailboat, canoe or rowing boat), in peaceful walks along the shores among the green spontaneous lake vegetation, exploring the lake surroundings by bicycle, amidst suggestive panoramic views. Or you can reach Miliscola beach, connected to the lake about halfway along the route, for a dip in the blue sea of myth.