Curon sunken village reappears in lake Reschen, Italy

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 03 May 2020 at 10:05:49 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 13 May 2020 at 17:14:28 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 03 May 2021 at 10:10:21 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 20 May 2021 at 17:14:34 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Lake, dam, green energies, hydroelectricity, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
Fig. 1 - S2 (03.05.2020) - Curon Venosta is an Italian city at the border with Austria and Switzerland.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (03.05.2021) - Old Curon & Montecatini in Switzerland were submerged by a dam in 1950 with 163 homes & 523 ha of cropland.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (13.05.2020) - The lake is famous for the steeple of a submerged 14th-century church.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (20.05.2021) - In 2021, the draining of the lake allows to see the remains of the old village, usually under the water.
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