Drought reveals gravestones of flooded village beneath Lipno reservoir

Photo: Václav Pancer, ČTK

Falling water levels at the Lipno reservoir in Southern Bohemia have uncovered dozens of gravestones from the former cemetery in Dolní Vltavice, a village that was flooded in the 1950s. Experts are now recovering the stones and considering how best to preserve them.

The Lipno reservoir was built on the upper reaches of the Vltava River between 1952 and 1958.

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Author: Ruth Fraňková