Experience the historic lifestyle of charcoal-burning families who shaped the forest, living in simple huts and working tirelessly to prevent fires.

Through their hard work and sacrifice, the charcoal-burning families brought life to the houses and the forests This place was not just a forest. It was also a home and a workplace. For months on end, entire families—men, women and children—lived here to make charcoal. They chopped wood, prepared the charcoal kiln and tended the fire day and night. Charcoal was essential: it was used for cooking and heating homes. It was hard and dangerous work. And it was also subsistence work: they worked day and night for just a share of the produce. They lived in simple huts, with few resources, far from everything. But their work had another effect: they gathered firewood, cleared the forest and reduced the risk of fires. Through their efforts, they transformed the forest you see today. What happens to the forest when it is no longer worked?