Mysterious Underground Cities and Naours
Eight astonishing settlements:
Naours, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Lalibela, Beijing Underground City, Petra, Orvieto, Burlington
Wieliczka salt mine is also known as the...
“Underground Salt Cathedral”
Lalibela is...
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Beijing Underground City in Beijing is located in...
China
“Burlington Bunker,” as it was codenamed, was first built in...
the 1950s
Where is located Naours underground city?
in northern France
Poland’s Wieliczka Salt Mine is a massive subterranean complex of rooms, passageways and statues located...
on the outskirts of Krakow
In the 12th century A.D., a devout king ordered the construction of...
11 eye-catching Christian churches
What were briefly opened as a tourist attraction in the early 2000s.
tunnels
The Italian hilltop town of Orvieto is known for its...
white wines and picturesque architecture
How many tunnels and man-made rooms are in Naours?
two miles of tunnels and more than 300 man-made rooms
When they weren’t digging for “white gold,” the workers also used the mine’s salt crystal deposits to build a stunning collection of...
chapels, chandeliers, statues and bas reliefs
The most iconic building is...
Church of Saint George
Where was a skating rink and a 1,000-seat movie theater?
Beijing
Orvieto’s underground city was also frequently employed as...
a hiding place
It had enough room for 3,000 inhabitants and included its own...
chapels, stables, wells and bakeries
The Wieliczka mine stopped producing salt in ...
2007 after some 700 years in operation
The construction of Lalibela took just...
24 years
Who did order the construction of a mammoth fallout shelter beneath their capital of Beijing?
the Chinese government
the Burlington facility remained partially operational until...
2004, when it was finally decommissioned and declassified.
When did the site begin its life as part of a Roman quarry
around the third century A.D.
a popular tourist attraction in Poland
The Wieliczka mine
...is now considered a sacred site for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Lalibela
"It consisted of fallout-proofed rooms and tunnels that snaked their way underground over an area of several dozen square miles" ,Is it in Beijing Underground City or Petra
Beijing Underground City
As recently as World War II, people were still using certain sections as ...
bomb shelters