Lake Ledro and its stilt houses

Ledro is a scattered municipality, made up of various hamlets, in Trentino, in the province of Trento; rises at 660 meters and has 5,500 inhabitants. Lake Ledro is suitable for swimming, offers various beaches and areas equipped for multiple activities: sailing, surfing, picnics, everything you need to spend pleasant moments of relaxation. The lake has a tasty peculiarity: a museum dedicated to stilts has been built. Since its waters feed the hydroelectric power station of Riva del Garda, during these works the water level was lowered with the consequent discovery of Bronze Age pile dwellings and very varied remains of pilings. The pile dwellings were rebuilt based on the findings made. The remains of the glass stilt house came back to life after thousands of years in 1929 when an expanse of over 10,000 poles resurfaced. The findings were cataloged as belonging to the late Neolithic, datable between 2,000 and 1,100 BC. C. Further subsequent excavations allowed the reconstruction of other pile dwellings and the documentation of life during the Bronze Age thanks to the discovery of everyday objects, now exhibited in the museum born in the 1970s. In 2012 the over 100 prehistoric pile-dwelling sites including that of Ledro have become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.