Personal Essay: Lake Como's Mediterranean Chaparral

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Lake Como’s Mediterranean Chaparral The biomes used in star wars were magnificent and actually real-life places on Earth. Although, my favorite has to be the Lake Como in Italy, which is a Mediterranean Chaparral. It’s beautiful with lots of greenery and water. I’m going to tell you all about this beautiful place throughout my essay. Also, how it relates and fits perfectly to the star wars movies, theme and specific scene. Lake Como has a relatively mild climate, surprisingly with it being up north. Never too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer, kinda like just right. Even though this place is so far north it seems to have some subtropical traits like the humid air and some of its vegetation. The wind is usually low and predictable. …show more content…
Despite it being so far up north, it holds great tropical vegetation. The beautiful lakeshore is home to vines, fig, pomegranate, olive, chestnut oleander trees. You may even find more exotic species like cypresses, bay, citrus, and pine trees. All of this great climate and vegetation deserves animal as equally great. In the scene where the couple goes out on the grass for a picnic, the male rides a made-up animal which buffalo-like. A place with great climate and vegetation is bound to have great animal life. Fishing things like trout, eel, and agoni are common there, even though the fish population has been reduced by pollution. The creatures in star wars all are based off what would normally live in that biome. For, instance the buffalo-like creature at the grasslands where the picnic was held. The creatures help pull in the out-of-this-world feeling. Overall, I think the places and creatures they used made this movie so popular, was right on the mark. They used almost every biome to pull this movie together with its creatures and characters. I wouldn’t see any reason to not travel and go see Lake Como, its scenery, and where the star wars scenes were filmed. Lake Como probably has the best scenes in that episode visual wise. This essay was fun to write and learn

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