On the northern side of Pula bay stretches out the former Naval Base Katarina, originally built as part of the Austro-Hungarian defence system of the city of Pula and further extended during Italian rule.
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Remise Monceau – abandoned train workshop (BE)
Remise Monceau is part of a freight station along a railway line that serves a Walloon industrial city. It is one of the six large shunting stations in Belgium and has more than thirty distribution tracks.
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Mono Orphanage (IT) – Abandoned orphanage at the Italian-Swiss border.
Mono Orphanage, a.k.a. Crying Baby Hospital, is an abandoned orphanage at the Italian-Swiss border. Until the 1970s, nuns prayed, lived and taught to the orphans here. The children mainly came here to cure tuberculosis.
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Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra (IT) – This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient’s insanity.
Volterra Psychiatric Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital in the city of Volterra. Founded in 1888, the hospital was known for its brutal treatment of inmates. It remained open until 1978, when it was closed following the passage of Law 180, which directed the closing down of all existing psychiatric hospitals.
Sanatorium of Valongo (PT) – An abandoomed TBC-hospital on top of Mont`Alto
The construction of the Mont`Alto Sanatorium began in 1932. Due to the appearance of a large number of people who had contracted tubercolosis, it was necessary to expand the facilities, and these enlargement works were completed in 1958. This sanatorium was the last one built in Portugal.
Industrial Budapest (HU) – Some urbex locations in Budapest
In october 2016 Lia and I visited Budapest. This visit was all because of the birthday present I got from Lia, a concert of one of my all time favourites bands The Cure.
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Potato-starch factory Ter Apel (NL) – Abandoned factory built in 191
These are the buildings of an abandoned potato-starch factory, an industry which grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Fort de la Chartreuse (BE) – A famous abandoned army base
Fort de la Chartreuse was built to defend the Belgian city of Liege. It was built by the Dutch in 1817 at Mont Cornillon and came after the Belgian Revolution in 1830 in the hands of the Belgians.
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Vršovice railway station Prague (CZ) – Abandoned trainstation near the centre of Prague
This trainstation was visited during a 5-day trip in Prague in May 2016.
Château Goorhof at Grobbendonk, Belgium – Abandoned Castle
This abandoned castle with chapel was founded in 1876 by the wealthy Antwerp shipowner Frans Huger. It is located in a park with century-old beech and chestnut trees. Today nothing remains of the beautiful place that nineteenth-century Goorhof was under the previous owners.
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