Lago Turchino is a small body of water located in a basin of high environmental value, in the Natural Park of the Alto Appennino Modenese.
The lake has an extremely small surface area, having a diameter of only 35 meters and a shallow depth (it does not reach more than 2 and a half meters), but it is highly suggestive for the surrounding landscape and for the color of the water, which almost seems to reach a turquoise shade depending on the angle from which you look at it. Visible until the end of autumn before the first snowfalls, then you can only imagine where it remains; the small privately owned refuge erected not far away and kept in a very dignified manner remains as a sentinel.
As for the altitude, we are around 1600 meters above sea level.
All around there is the splendid panorama of the Modena Apennines, with the basin of the mouth in Giovo and the valley of the tagliole in the distance.
A gigantic overhang of almost three hundred and fifty meters separates the basin of Lago Turchino from Mount Rondinaio and the overlying Mount Rondinaio Lombardo.
The lake is fed almost exclusively by precipitation or winter thaw.
Reachable via paths, an excellent goal for a nice hike in the summer/autumn season, a beautiful itinerary with frozen snow (obviously with crampons on your feet and mountaineering equipment) and arrival/departure for medium-difficult trips with ski mountaineering.
You certainly can't avoid visiting it!!!
