Forggensee
Vast alpine reservoir whose winter-drained bed reveals Roman roads, drowned hamlets and ancient finds.
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This audio guide to the Forggensee near Füssen follows Sigulf Guggenmos, a self-taught amateur archaeologist from Kaufbeuren, across the reservoir's winter-drained bed. It reaches from Stone Age hunters to Celtic worshippers and the Romans who built a road through the valley. The hamlet of Forggen, drowned when the dam was finished in the nineteen fifties, turns up too. Best heard from the shore, looking out across the water.
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