Landscape



The Ticino is a typically Alpine river; it may have shallow water for long periods and be in flood several times during the year. This causes its bed to vary and form numerous branches off the main course of the river. The shingle is mainly pebbly and constists of materials coming from glacial erosion moved towards the valley by the turbulence of waters when the river is in flood. These materials are pebbles, sands, quarzites, various minerals and even small quantities of minute particles of gold. For ages people have been fishing in the river and even now, there are many fishermen both professional and amateur. In the past fishing was a necessary source of food and for the inhabitants of Vigevano it has maintained even now a very important historical memory: not all may have the privilege of the "Civic Use" of fishing. Among the fishes in the Ticino there are trout, eel, grayling, tench, chub, sturgeon, pike, perch, and carp.

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