Lost cities
Lost cities annually attract crowds of tourists. WebUrbanist.com.has published the list of the most interesting lost cities has published a portal
1. The city-fortress of Kowloon (Kowloon Walled City) settled down in China, near to Hong Kong. Till 90th years it represented area of slums with high criminal atmosphere and horrifying unsanitary. Now on this place the park is arranged.
2. Ruins of the French village Oradour-sur-Glane, are kept as memory of the local residents killed during the Second world war by German soldiers.
3. Kolmanskop, the small village in Namibia, is located in desert. The city has been based by selectors of diamonds and lost in 1956, when development of richer deposits of jewels in other places has started.
4. Lost miner’s city of Humberstone is in the Chilean Atacama desert. It was prospering city in 20-40-s years, but in 1961 it has become completely empty.
5. 20 thousand lived in Australian city Wittenoom. However in 60-s years cancerogenic properties of asbestos, which extracted in mines nearby, have been found out, and the city has become empty.
In the list the American Gary in state of Indiana and Ruby in state of Arizona, the city Agdam in Azerbaijan have entered. Also the list includes such cities as: dead city Mandu (India), settlement Kadykchan (the Magadan area, Russia), Cody (Canada), Balestrino (Italy), historical park Bodie State (California), constructed in days of blossoming a gold fever.
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