The word "ghost" doesn't give you much confidence, does it? Regardless of the context in which it is spoken. Even so, and because I know that there are many people who like and are especially interested in this type of curious articles, I bring you a list of 5 ghost towns If you visit them, we can assure you that you will not find a soul in them ... And if you do, run away!
Jokes aside, and you, Would you visit any of these ghost towns?
Goldfield, in Arizona
Goldfield was a mining town where gold was mined during the corresponding years between 1890 and 1926. Today it is a ghost town, specifically located in the southwestern United States.
This city reached a maximum of 4.000 inhabitants approximately and in addition to the mines he had a shop, a school, a hotel and a post office. It was abandoned twice, one back in 1897 when the activity in the mine died; later, she was rescued under the name of yunsberg, when nearby mines were reopened, thus building a milling plant and reactivation cyanide in the city. When the activity in the mine ceased again, it led to the definitive abandonment of the city in 1926.
Today Goldfield is like a tourist site in which we can see shootouts, take train rides on various tours, and watch the gold panning done.
Kennecott in Alaska
We meet again with a place abandoned by the closure of the mines. In Kennecott, Alaska, he had located a large mining camp that was the center of activity for several coppermade mines.
It is located in the national park largest in the United States, El Santo Elías and very close by is the Kennicott Glacier.
Now it has become a National Historic District and since 1986 it was officially declared a National Historic Landmark.
The people of Kennecott they left the place by a strong explosion what happened in 1940 in one of the mines.
Craco, in Italy
This one is closer to the Spanish! Craco is a small municipality in the city of Matera, in Italy. Its origins date back to XNUMXth century BC and was abandoned due to a landslide caused by a series of earthquakes, thus becoming the ghost town it is today. Still, Craco, is a tourist destination and a popular location chosen for filming movies. Its splendid construction plus the tranquility that an uninhabited place provides, make film directors decide on Craco when shooting their films. One of them was "Passion of Christ" shot in 2004 by actor and director Honey Gibson.
In this video it is explained in detail in less than 4 minutes, why Craco was abandoned:
Kayaköy, in Turkey
Formerly known as Stone VillaIt was a beautiful city that began to grow in the year 1700, being home to both Muslims, Greek Orthodox and Christians. All this peace ended once the World War I y the Greek-Turkish war occurred between 1919 and 1922 that brought with it the violence that completely took over the city. In 1923 it was abandoned for political reasons as a peace treaty, relocating the surviving Greeks to the Attica region, near Athens.
A story that could well be situated today ... And there are things that, no matter how many years pass, do not change ...
Döllersheim, in Austria
I suppose that is to say abandoned city in Austria and we all inevitably come to the same cause and reason, right?
Yes, Adolf Hitler, decided to choose this 900-year-old village to evacuate and thus turn it into a military training ground in 1938. Today, the site is managed by the Austrian Armed Forces.
And how are you we could name you many more: Giving it in Libya, aüli in Switzerland, Varosha in Cyprus, Animas Forks in Colorado, Pripyat in Ukraine (city of residence of many of the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant), Kadikchan in Russia, gunkanjima in Japan, and so many where some are still lucky enough to be stepped on by tourists, but most of them are really repellent to see them so lonely and uninhabited in images like the ones we present in this article.
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