Marmitte Glacial Era Wells
An element which excite naturalists and geologists, can be admired at the hairpin bends of the road that brings one to Nago: the so-called Giant's pot (Italian: Marmitte dei Giganti) representing the tangible glacial era evidence of erosive phenomenon, which occurred when a wide glacier covered the territories. Those so called Marmitte are nothing else then sunken glacial era wells, set out by the stones and glacial, quick whirling, detritus coming down from the superior layers.
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