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The region has very beautiful lakes and gravel pits, with the legends that go with them. Undines, mermaids, aquatic monsters. Whoa! Direction the lake of… Ah almost, we say Sewen, the lake is a small kilometer from the town. It is the Seebach and its tributaries that create this pretty lake. The tour can be done very well on foot, in barely 1 hour, you follow the blue rectangle. Don’t forget to take a look at the oratory, because this lake has a special legend. Before, there were fields here in Sewen, instead of water. One Sunday morning, a farmer and his wife decided to load a cart with hay instead of going to mass.
No, but pay attention to the signs, all the same! The bells were ringing, a storm was coming, nothing to do, the farmers ignored the signs and continued to bring in the hay, worse, realizing the risk of the crop being wet, they began to insult the sky and the big black clouds who were approaching.
Then thunder broke, the earth shook, suddenly opened up, a gigantic crack engulfing in its entrails the peasant, his wife, and the whole team. When calm returned, Lake Sewen occupied the site of the vast meadow… it’s no joke over there. Ah, if you are already in front of the lake, I take this opportunity to tell you about a second curiosity. If you are very quiet, you will see in this lake of Sewen a spooky creature. A legendary monster.
Not as big as Godzilla, no, it’s the local Loch Ness monster… A huge carp, which haunts the waters of Lake Sewen. She is harmless, barely shows herself, sometimes swims quite close to the edge, goes capriciously and slowly from one side of the lake to the other. So what’s so special about this carp? You will easily recognize the mythical animal when it rises to the surface. The carp carries a tree on its back: a tiny cherry tree that is always in bloom.