Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Dead Peoples in Museum


Museum of the dead

Catacombs of the Capuchins (Italian Catacombe dei Cappuccini) – burial catacombs located in the city of Palermo in Sicily, in which the clear remains of more than eight thousand people, most of the local elite and prominent citizens – the clergy, the aristocracy and the representatives of various professions. This is one of the most famous exhibition of mummies – skeletirovannye, mummified, embalmed body of the dead lie, stand, hang, form a composition.


By the end of XVI century, the inhabitants of the Capuchin monastery has grown considerably, and there was a need for a dignified and spacious cemetery for the monks. For this purpose we adapted the crypt under the monastery church. In 1599 there was buried brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and then the remains were moved here several previously deceased monks. In what room crypt was close, and the Capuchins gradually dug a long passage in which up to 1871 placed the body of deceased monks.

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Ghost town in China‏


Ghost town in China

District Kangbashi, designed for more than a million inhabitants, still abandoned, even five years from the date of commencement of construction.


Property area Kangbashi started within the state of the project in Ordos – a town in the province of Inner Mongolia, the source of wealth that is coal quarter. The space was designed with office buildings, administrative areas, government agencies, museums, theaters and sports facilities, and housing. But there is one problem. In the space of more than one million inhabitants, yet almost no one lives.

Despite the fact that most of the property has been purchased and is planned by 2010, the District will be settled Kangbashi still empty.