Underground Lviv, the secrets of the past Bashny.Net

The largest number of Lviv underground tunnels and structures built in the NINETEENTH century. After the revolution of 1848, the Austrian authorities turned the Turkish trenches in a strong Citadel, whose FORTS on the hill that dominates the town, was able to keep under fire the whole Central part. In this mountain the Austrians have done a lot of underground utilities, there is a backup command post of the Austrian military commandant of the city.

        See also: Bakery "lvivski plyatsky»

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However, traditionally the main Lviv dungeon consider a tunnel, but rather a real underground street with electric light and lots of "lanes" on which the underground river Poltva. This engineering building is still unique, when you consider that on an artificial concrete island over an underground river built the Lviv Opera house. In the world there is only one analogue of this engineering marvel — the fleet street of London. The river fleet is a tributary of the Thames — at the time also hid in the underground concrete sleeve, where the banks of the sidewalks are considered a place of "parade" representatives of London's "bottom".

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Is not lagging behind in this regard and the lions. Here he wrote the Polish newspaper in the early twentieth century: "After the closure of the Poltva river in the city limits and holding sewage under the ground were secret passages, corridors and emptiness. They are available only for engineers and for those working in the city sewer service, as well as for many individuals of the criminal world. Underground often despise functionaries of the police, conducting an underground RAID...»

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