BAK launches smartphone application for pile dwellings
The Federal Office of Culture (BAK) and the Palafittes Association launched an iPhone app today, Thursday, dedicated to pile dwellings. The app provides additional information about the sites, which were designated as World Heritage Sites last week, and makes it easier to locate the archaeological sites.
At many sites, hardly anything archaeological is to be seen. This writes the BAK in a press release. Therefore, the cell phone application informs in three minutes per site about what lies under the ground or the water level. At the same time, a picture of the pile dwellers' everyday life is drawn. The "Palafittes-Guide" covers 53 of the 56 Swiss pile-dwelling sites, which Unesco inscribed on June 27 as the eleventh Swiss site on the prestigious World Heritage List.
