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This Italian river bend is littered with sunken wooden barges.
Many wooden barges, used to transport goods between Venice and Treviso, "burci," were abandoned along the banks of a bend in the Sile River. Exposed to the weather and the river’s flowing water, the boats gradually sunk and started rotting. Now they are partially embedded in the muddy riverbed, slowly being colonized by plants and aquatic wildlife. River birds use them as a nest, while fish, and amphibia use them as a shelter from predators.
