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This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Laghi di Ivrea

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Location: Montalto Dora, Torino, Piedmont, Italy

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Rosa Barrel

December 23, 2023

The giants' potholes were formed with the melt waters of the glaciers, which flowed through the crevasses and especially the glacial mills.

These melt waters gathered into currents and formed vortices in certain places. In these vortices the flowing waters reached speeds of up to 200 km/h, at the same time exerting strong pressure. The high erosion work with the excavation of the bed in the rocks caused the dragging of the resulting sand and parts of gravel. The theory that the erratic boulders dragged by the moving waters have "milled" the potholes of giants like glacial mills from the rocks is obsolete. Mainly it is a collision point

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Location: Montalto Dora, Torino, Piedmont, Italy

Giant's Kettle

1. Terre Ballerine woodland walk from Lake Sirio

2. Floating Dock on Lake Sirio – The Dancing Lands loop from Cascinette d'Ivrea

3. View of Castello di Montalto – Lago Nero loop from Montalto Dora

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