Ljubljansko barje
Vast wetland plain on a vanished lakebed, hiding UNESCO-listed prehistoric pile-dwelling villages.
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This audio guide to Ljubljansko barje, the marshland on the southern edge of Ljubljana, follows Karl Deschmann, the museum curator who began digging near the village of Ig in eighteen seventy-five. It weighs his political reputation among his own people against the lakeside villages buried in the peat beneath you. Best heard with the open meadows and drainage ditches in view.
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