00:00In Trentino, in Val di Non, inside the Adamello Brenta Natural Park, there is a mysterious and fascinating place, the lake of Tovel,
00:17water with intense and bright colors, which until the 1960s were red for the action of a seaweed, and which for this reason have inspired legends related to the territory.
00:26Today, the phenomenon of reddening remains the charm of its submerged treasures, a real hidden forest.
00:33It is a vegetal community buried under tens of meters of water, discovered in the 70s, when the first immersions were made.
00:41Since then, archaeologists, divers and scientists have identified the plants present on the bottom, dating them with precision.
00:48The hypothesis is that at the end of the 16th century, a natural event led to an elevation of the waters that submerged the vegetation.
00:56For tourists, it is forbidden to immerse themselves, but it is still possible to admire the submerged forest, thanks to the multimedia resources
01:04distributed on the site and on the channels of the Val di Non Tourism Company.
01:10Under the water of Lake Tovel, there is a submerged forest and it has really spectacular areas.
01:18There are areas 20 meters deep, with many of the trees rooted, so in vertical positions, and a truly suggestive environment.
01:26A bit spectral, but very, very beautiful.
01:28It teaches us a lot, because from every data we can gather, it allows us to understand many things,
01:37because it is analyzed from a point of view of a thousand different disciplines, even if there are still many dark points to solve.
01:45A bit of mystery still.
01:47The submerged forest of Lake Tovel is a real treasure.
01:52As in all alpine lakes, we often find plants, and these hide us and allow us to discover invaluable data,
02:04such as the climatic conditions that we could have about a thousand years ago, or even more.
02:14Or, an important thing is to be able to put together our own, so to speak, dendrochronological strings,
02:23which allow us to date other great artifacts in the field of art.
02:29I don't know, I'll give you an example, the paintings that up to 500 were painted on the table,
02:35rather than tools like the famous Stradivari, etc., etc.
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