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There is little proof as to why a community would have been established so distant from water or other resources, despite the fact that these ruins on Mont Tantané date back to the Iron Age.
This site is what remained of the legacy from the Iron Age. Some 2,000 years ago, a local population known as the Salassi settled this plateau under Mount Tantané in the Italian Alps. Today the site is home to an abandoned archaeological excavation with a magical atmosphere. The ruins, now known as Villaggio dei Salassi, were first recorded in 1973 by Vincent Trèves. They are quite far from mountain passes and waterways. The difficulty in accessing water, as well as the harsh climate, would lead us to believe that it was not a place to settle or grow crops. Some believe that it was built to extract mining materials, but no traces of mineral deposits have been found nearby.
