In the mountains of Niolo, paradise of the hikers where the nodes culminate with more than 2000 meters, a chain of lakes of altitude niche in the folds of the rock.
To the south of Assembles-Cinto, the area of the lake Nino is done softer. The big lake, the second of the island with 7 hectares of surface and its 12 meters of depth, are one of most attractive, by its fauna, its flora and its legends. One day whole should well be held to him. If it seems always deadened at the bottom of a vast basin surrounded by high summits (Cimatella, Tozzu, Artica), it offers the very particular landscape of Pozzines, these peaty lawns of a tender green, old women of several thousands of years, and who contain various foam species.
They owe this name of Pozzine to the Briquet botanist, who thus baptized them in 1910 per reference to the water holes (I pozzi) in Corsica. Indeed, the peat bogs, greener than with the English gardens, are strewn with ponds where the intense blue of the sky is reflected. The grass, soaked with water, breaks up at the base into giving the peat. They are reserves of freshness, covered with a tender grass that the cows and the pigs come to devour throughout the summer, with at the same time the risk to degrade them, but also the advantage of avoiding the invasion of the shrubs. A right balance should be maintained… These Pozzine as make it possible various plant species to open out, as they are grassettes (small plants carnivores which nourishes insects atiirés by water), the fragile violets, the buttercups always tired and with half lying, or the aconites.