The regional tradition - silt plovers

Usually, when it rushed on wearing stilts, we imagine the circus and street artists. However, the southwestern French region of Landes yet the twentieth century. at the beginning it was possible to meet people with stilts. In most cases it was their herds care of shepherds.

In the past here stretched swampy plains , travel without getting wet legs were quite problematic. Here and saved by silt plovers!

Residents learned to walk their help from an early age. Frequent could even run or walking picking fruit from the trees. It is said that in 1808. these places visited Zozefina - Emperor Napoleon's wife. Local residents welcomed her on stilts and kept up with the nuts with quads attract horses.

Nineteenth century. location started drained and planted with trees. The need to walk stilts disappeared. It retained only the local shepherds to look up and down from high above their herds.