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Vestiges of dwellings survive — cabins on stilts in the frequently flooded Po valley, larger clay houses on the western marshlands of Tuscany, and Sardinia’s still visible domed dry-stone nuraghi.
Their sea-resistant limestone foundations stand on massive pinewood stilts driven 8 m (26 ft) into the lagoon bed.
The small timber and bamboo theater is mounted on stilts, and the puppets are seen as sharply etched shadows cast on a white cotton screen by a lamp hanging from the roof of the theater.
Even if you feel you’ve seen enough Japanese temples, you will certainly be moved by the striking beauty of the bright red camphorwood arch of Itsukushima Shrine rising 16 m (52 ft) out of the sea in front of the low, brilliant vermilion buildings, themselves raised above the water by stilts.
Many of the inhabitants live — by choice, not necessarily through economic hardship — on the water, aboard houseboats or in houses on stilts in the main creek.