An Italian town was intentionally submerged to create a lake!
The lake is called Lake Reschen and it is the largest lake in the province of South Tyrol, Italy. Iin 1940, the village of Graun was not able to stop a proposed artificial lake from being built in order to support a hydroelectric dam.
Due to the war, the dam wasn’t finished until 1950. When it was finished, they had created a lake that was 72 ft deep and unified two other natural lakes in the area. The consequence was that…
