Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps
Photo: Thilo Parg, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps is a world heritage site in the Alpine countries. The site is made up of 111 components (approximately half of them in Switzerland), making it one of the most dispersed world heritage sites.
Understand, people in the Alpine countries lived in pile dwellings, or houses built on stilts.
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo: Thilo Parg, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons