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- Lake of Settons - Dam - Is built entirely from blocks of granite, is an imposing building which measures 267 meters by 20 high and 20 to its base, built on the principle of "dams of force" as a pyramid, it stands as the weight he carries on himself. It is the largest built at that time in Western Europe. The keeper's house, that appears at the bottom has been constructed along the dam, it was used to house the engineers: an historic monument in 1944. At the center of the dam throne room machinery is used to operate the valves that allow the bottom water flow.

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