THE DEAD CITIES

The Dead Cities? This might be so strange and spooky in our ears. When we think about a city, we must think that the city has society and a life to live. But, did you know that there are some cities in this world have been dead, empty, and no life there?

Let’s check these out.

1. Kolmanskop (Nambia)

In 1908, people in Kolmanskop went to the desert to take the diamond easily. Because of that, Kolmanskop had been a great, fancy, and beautiful city in only two years. Unfortunately, the diamond trading was stopped after World War I and the sand from the desert started to take what should be theirs. Finally, the city had been destroyed by the sand and become a dead city.

2. Pripyat (Ukraina)

Pripyat has been a dead because of Cherinobyl nuclear power disaster. This disaster had killed about 50.000 lives. The buildings are destroyed and contaminated by the nuclear.

3. San Zhi (Taiwan)

Initially, this city was built as a futuristic rest place for rich people, but because there were so many fatal accidents during the process in building this city, the project was stopped. Worse, because of the constraint of cash and labors, this project was totally stopped and had been a dead city.

4. Craco (Italy)

In 1981, the population in Craco was more than 2000 lives. They were in big troubles of social and poverty. Between 1892 and 1922 around 1300 people moved to Northern America. The problems were getting worse because of farm problems, earthquake, and landslide. A massive number of people immigrated to other places. Between 1959 and 1972, Craco got earthquake and landslide again and that caused Craco becoming a dead city.

5. Oradour-Sur-Glane (France)

How did this city become a dead city?

Well, this city had been attacked by Germany armies. The people were shot and killed. The men were forced into the store house and then shot and killed by the armies and the women and children who were trying to runaway from the church got shot too.

-WRITTEN BY MEGA ZULFITRIANI-