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About 15,000 years ago after the last glaciation, a lake formed, called Carera. In summer, along the shores of this lake, the first Mesolithic hunters arrived, then, in the late Neolithic, other people founded the first stilt village. From that moment on, several villages were built, progressively destroyed or abandoned.
Of those villages, today you can still see, along the path, several wooden poles emerging from the small Carera lake. The remains of the stilt houses and many other objects have been preserved thanks to the peat, that is the accumulation of vegetation on the bottom of the lake. The archaeological site of Fiavé is one of the 111 prehistoric stilt house sites of the Alpine arc UNESCO World Heritage. The archaeological findings and all the information can be found in the Fiavé Stilt House Museum.
The path continues beyond the archaeological site and, through a wooden footbridge, connects to a dirt road that borders the edge of the peat bog, at the boundary with the meadows: a wooden tower allows observation of the birds that frequent the wetland area. At the end of the road, continue on another footbridge that crosses a stretch of marshland to reconnect to a dirt road that borders the edge of the forest and the countryside.
