The Pio Bettoni Meteorological Observatory and Seismic Station are located in Salò on Lake Garda. The observatory was founded in 1877 and assigned to Professor Pio Bettoni, who started gathering data on air temperature, atmospheric pressure, rainfall and other weather conditions. The geophysical observatory was added in 1889 and became an important scientific research centre after the 1901 earthquake. The information collected is significant not only for Salò but for the whole of the Lake Garda area.
