SOLVED RIDDLE.
Peat bogs of Sebino (Lake of Iseo).
Near Lake Iseo there is a peat plain that in certain places reaches a depth maxim of 5 metres.
It is a rather small area: only 360 hectares formed by stretches of water, surrounded by cultivated fields or by roads and houses. One part is in direct contact with Lake Iseo and is called Lametta; there is also an inner part called Lama, formed by big basins that are divided by small dikes of earth, and another part with more basins obtained after the extraction of clay.
When desiccated, peat was a precious material for the economy of the area because it could be used instead of coal, which was very expensive to import. Before the oil age and the introduction of electricity, peat was used in furnaces, spinning wheels, factories, to heat houses and even to stoke the train Brescia-Iseo-Edolo until the First World War.
Now it is a nature reserve.
https://visitlakeiseo.info/en/experience-the-lake/sport-and-nature/trekking-and-walking/638-torbiere-del-sebino-nature-reserve
Hans-Jörg Bäuerle, Leonhard Huber, Martin Kraus, Dieter Leimkötter, Steffen Minack, Jörg Nitz, Jan Lindgaard Rasmussen, Danko Rihter, Arne Rönsch, Werner Schelberger, Christoph Seger, Björn Sothmann, Arjan Veldhuis, Jens Vischer, Benjamin Vogel
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What we see is one of the rare examples in Italy of bogs used in the past to supply energy to the industries of the area.
Now it is a nature reserve.
Of course, even I, when I solve riddles, I have a subtle pleasure ;-)
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