Once upon a time, a whole 13^th century village disappeared under water, but if you bring yourself on a lake’s shores at the right time, you can still see it. No, it’s not the beginning of a fantasy tale, nor the romanticized version of a tragic event of our past.

It’s reality and no one got hurt when the old village of Fabbriche di Careggine  — first records of it date back to 1270 — in the Lucca province of Tuscany, ended its existence under the cold, icy waters of the Lago di Vagli, an artificial water basin created between the late 1940s and the early 1950s.