The heat wave that is looming over Europe these days sets the tone for an extremely hot summer. A curious fact is that the drought reached lakes and rivers, with which the low water level has left sunken remains on the surface.
For example, the Danube downspout in Serbia allows you to see sunken ships from the Second World War, still with explosives. These are German ships sunk in 1944. Unexploded explosives appeared in the Po River in Italy, where a sunken barge was found in 1943. In addition, in a town near Mantua they had to evacuate regarding 3 thousand people, where a submerged bomb was safely detonated more than seventy years ago.
Also exposed were the “hunger stones” on the banks of the Elbe River, the rocks on which water levels were marked in previous droughts. According to tradition, the marks were warnings that when these stones emerge, there are difficult times ahead. In Rome, the descent of the Tiber allowed the discovery of a bridge from the 1st century following Christ.
In Spain, the Dolmen of Guadalperal, a group of stones from 5 thousand years before Christ, considered to be the “Spanish Stonehenge”, in the Valdecañas reservoir, in Cáceres. The Dolmen had been discovered in 1926, but was submerged by a flood in 1963 and was barely visible four times.
The drought also allowed a “ghost town” to be seen in Galicia. This is Aceredo, near the border with Portugal, which was flooded in 1992
In the United Kingdom, the ruins of a church were exposed in Derwent, a town that was submerged in 1940 for the construction of a reservoir. Trees might also be seen at the Colliford Lake reservoir.
Also, the downspout revealed remains of 17th-century gardens in Lydiard ParkSwindon y and Longleat.
