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The most spectacular flooded buildings
When in these buildings people lived and worked, is now a haven of fish and wild vegetation.
1. The Church of St. Nicholas, Macedonia
2. The Church of St. Nicholas in the Macedonian village of Mavrovo was built in 1850. Over the years, there were 153 service until this place does not decide to build an artificial lake to supply the village with water.
3. The church was completely flooded, but global climate changes of recent years have led to the fact that it began to appear regularly in the middle of the lake
4. The Belfry in Kalyazin. Once it was a high bank of the river, it was a monastery before it was a busy market area, and now the middle of the surface of the river rises a bell tower, and only the wind sometimes rocking vintage bell.
5. The bell tower (height 74, 5 m) built up over 6 years. She had 12 bells
6. When creating a reservoir of Uglich oldest part of Kalyazin was in the flood zone; Cathedral was disassembled, and the bell tower partially under water. The bell tower has been preserved as it had planned to convert to a parachute tower. Later, the bell tower was built around an artificial island with a mooring for boats
7. Jal Mahal, India. Jal Mahal is striking in its unusual architectural design - it stands in the middle of a small lake a few kilometers from the city of Jaipur. Once it was the summer residence of the royal family and was built in the middle of the XVIII century.
8. Its walls look great against a background of shimmering green waters of Lake Man Sagar. The palace seems a giant iceberg, still frozen in the middle of the lake. His first four floors hidden under water.
9. During bird migration Palace attracts not only lovers of antiquities, but scientists ornithologists. Prior to Jal Mahal Palace can be reached only by boat
10. Church Altgraun on Lake Reschen, Italy
11. In 1950, not far from the Austrian-Italian border there was an artificial lake Reschen, which completely hid the village of Graun.
12. A week before the flooding of rural church was demolished, and the bell tower of the XIV century it was decided to leave, and now it rises above the water surface, and residents of neighboring villages say that in winter, when the lake is covered with ice, sometimes at night you can distinguish the sound of bells for a long time taken .
13. Church of Potosi, Venezuela. In 1985, the Venezuelan government ordered the residents of the tiny town in the west of the country to urgently move to other places: at this point it was decided to build a hydroelectric power station and reservoir
14. Citizens in no hurry to leave their homes, and then the president himself flew to Potosi and convinced everyone to move. River Uribante covered streets, but the church spire disappeared under water and many years reminded of Potosi.
Source: bigpicture.ru
1. The Church of St. Nicholas, Macedonia
2. The Church of St. Nicholas in the Macedonian village of Mavrovo was built in 1850. Over the years, there were 153 service until this place does not decide to build an artificial lake to supply the village with water.
3. The church was completely flooded, but global climate changes of recent years have led to the fact that it began to appear regularly in the middle of the lake
4. The Belfry in Kalyazin. Once it was a high bank of the river, it was a monastery before it was a busy market area, and now the middle of the surface of the river rises a bell tower, and only the wind sometimes rocking vintage bell.
5. The bell tower (height 74, 5 m) built up over 6 years. She had 12 bells
6. When creating a reservoir of Uglich oldest part of Kalyazin was in the flood zone; Cathedral was disassembled, and the bell tower partially under water. The bell tower has been preserved as it had planned to convert to a parachute tower. Later, the bell tower was built around an artificial island with a mooring for boats
7. Jal Mahal, India. Jal Mahal is striking in its unusual architectural design - it stands in the middle of a small lake a few kilometers from the city of Jaipur. Once it was the summer residence of the royal family and was built in the middle of the XVIII century.
8. Its walls look great against a background of shimmering green waters of Lake Man Sagar. The palace seems a giant iceberg, still frozen in the middle of the lake. His first four floors hidden under water.
9. During bird migration Palace attracts not only lovers of antiquities, but scientists ornithologists. Prior to Jal Mahal Palace can be reached only by boat
10. Church Altgraun on Lake Reschen, Italy
11. In 1950, not far from the Austrian-Italian border there was an artificial lake Reschen, which completely hid the village of Graun.
12. A week before the flooding of rural church was demolished, and the bell tower of the XIV century it was decided to leave, and now it rises above the water surface, and residents of neighboring villages say that in winter, when the lake is covered with ice, sometimes at night you can distinguish the sound of bells for a long time taken .
13. Church of Potosi, Venezuela. In 1985, the Venezuelan government ordered the residents of the tiny town in the west of the country to urgently move to other places: at this point it was decided to build a hydroelectric power station and reservoir
14. Citizens in no hurry to leave their homes, and then the president himself flew to Potosi and convinced everyone to move. River Uribante covered streets, but the church spire disappeared under water and many years reminded of Potosi.
Source: bigpicture.ru
