A mysterious place in Colombia - the abandoned Hotel Del Salto. The forever closed Hotel del Salto, Colombia Hotel del salto Colombia
The hotel building was built in 1923 in the tiny town of San Antonio del Tequendama, 30 kilometers southeast of the country's capital. This is one of most beautiful places on the Bogota River - here is the Tequendama Falls. The name of the 137-meter waterfall means " opened door“- the Indians who inhabited the river valley believed that the waterfall appeared after a wizard cut the mountain. The customer built an unusual mansion in the style French castle The then President of the Republic of Colombia Pedro Nel Ospina spoke - the windows of the palace built on the very edge of the cliff overlooked the waterfall. In addition to four above-ground floors, the building had two underground floors, which housed storage rooms and a laundry room. Ospina's powers expired in 1926, and the palace acquired new owner, who opened a hotel within these walls. The heyday of the El Hotel del Salto came in the middle of the last century, when it was again resold, reconstructed and opened to guests. At that time, El Hotel del Salto had 18 apartments with bathrooms and fireplaces, and a restaurant with a terrace, where wealthy residents of the capital gladly came to relax. The attractiveness of the hotel directly depended on the magnificent view of the waterfall, so when Tekendama began to become shallow and polluted by runoff in the 1970s, the flow of people wishing to relax at the hotel also dried up.
In the absence of vacationers, interest in the abandoned hotel arose among those who decided to commit suicide. In general, the local Indians began to use the waterfall as a means of transition to another world - pursued by the conquistadors, they threw entire families off the cliff, and according to legend turned into eagles. In the 20th century, the slopes near the hotel were similarly used by romantics suffering from unrequited love, bankrupt businessmen and others for overly balanced categories of citizens - however, without subsequent reincarnation. At one time, they even wanted to move the police station to the building of the abandoned hotel, and local residents spread rumors about the ghosts of the dead - it was necessary to somehow fight the flow of people wishing to say goodbye to their lives at the hotel.
Recently, the state drew attention to El Hotel del Salto. The building received the status of an object cultural heritage Columbia, after reconstruction it is planned to open within its walls National Museum biological diversity of fauna and flora. As for the smell that once scared away vacationers from the hotel, the Institute of Natural Sciences National University Colombia is doing a lot of work to clean up Bogota and its tributaries. The waterfall can be seen throughout the year, except December, when the river becomes almost completely shallow. The creators of the foundation, which is raising funds for the reconstruction of El Hotel del Salto, urge tourists not to be afraid of ghost stories and come to the palace for beautiful shots against the backdrop of a waterfall, because the only ghost that has long owned this picturesque place is human indifference and disregard for nature - left him forever.
Abandoned cinema, Sinai desert
On South Sinai Peninsula There is an abandoned cinema in Egypt. What is he doing there? The cinema in the desert was built by a rich Frenchman with his own money, but this cinema never became popular.
Cinema in the desert
This cinema was built under open air and looked much better than now.
I don’t know why, but this rich Frenchman decided that the most best place there will be a desert for watching a movie.
This movie theater in the desert never became a movie theater. Not a single film was shown there.
More than 10 years have passed since its construction. The cinema looks terrible and even more so - apocalyptic.
The desert movie theater was designed for 150 people, which is why there are so many chairs.
Why did everything turn out this way with this cinema? Some talk about some kind of curse, which is hard to believe, that contributed to this, while others say that local authorities deliberately damaged the projector on the first day of the premiere. They really didn’t like the movie theater in the desert.
Abandoned Refugio El Salto hotel in Colombia
In 1924 in most picturesque place, 18 km southwest of Bogota, in the city of San Antonio del Tequendama, the luxurious Refugio El Salto hotel was built.
But in the early 90s of the last century, the hotel was closed due to increasing cases of suicide by drunken visitors to the establishment.
Options for opening a museum or police station at the hotel are currently being considered, but, according to local residents, these are all rumors
And besides, at night, mysterious shadows were seen in the gloomy building, as evidenced by the residents of San Antonio del Tequendama, who say that a ghost has settled in the hotel.
edited news Fahrengeit - 4-04-2016, 16:01
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The combination of mystery and danger arouses interest and attracts attention against our will, and the sight of nature, which calmly captures what people have created, returns us to the understanding of our own insignificance in the face of time.
San Ji Ghost Town, Taiwan
Luxury resort on sea coast was built specifically for the local rich. But already during construction something strange began to happen. Dozens of workers died: they broke their necks falling from a height (even with safety ropes), and died under collapsed cranes. The surrounding residents were sure that the town was inhabited by evil spirits. There were harrowing stories about a Japanese “death camp” that had once been located here. At the end of the 1980s, construction stalled. The apartments never found buyers, and the authorities do not demolish the city because people believe that this will release evil spirits.
Abandoned military hospital in Beelitz, Germany
The city of the same name is located 40 kilometers from the capital of Germany. During the First and Second World Wars, the hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. In 1995, people left the city, and since then it has been gradually destroyed.
Eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant, Makhachkala
Naval weapons testing station, commissioned in 1939. It is located 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction took a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions. Unfortunately, the workshop did not serve the plant for long. The requirements for the work carried out in the workshop changed, and in April 1966 this grandiose structure was written off from the factory balance sheet. Now this “Array” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.
Psychiatric Clinic Lier Sikehus, Norway
At the Norwegian psychiatric hospital, which is located in small town Lier, half an hour from Oslo, has a dark past. Experiments on patients were once carried out here, and for unknown reasons, four hospital buildings were abandoned in 1985. Equipment, beds, even magazines and personal belongings of patients remained in the abandoned buildings. At the same time, the remaining eight buildings of the hospital are still operating to this day.
Gunkanjima Island, Japan
In fact, the island is called Hashima, nicknamed Gunkanjima, which means “cruiser island.” The island was settled in 1810 when coal was discovered there. Within fifty years, it has become the most populated island in the world in terms of the ratio of land and the number of inhabitants on it: 5,300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were completely exhausted, and people left the island. Today, visiting the island is prohibited. There are many legends about this place among the people.
Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, China
The city was located in Hong Kong, but did not obey the authorities, being under the control of the mafia. Not only did prostitution and drug trafficking flourish inside, but there was also self-government. In addition, the area had its own industry: semi-handicraft production of noodles and all sorts of small things. The enterprises' products were inexpensive: there were no taxes, and local entrepreneurs did not comply with labor laws. They had their own nursing home, kindergarten and school. In the early 1990s, the population density reached two million people per square kilometer.
After a difficult process of eviction of the people living there, a park of the same name was opened in this place in 1995. Some of the city's historical artifacts, including the yamen building, and the remains of the South Gate have been preserved.
Abandoned Hotel Salto in Colombia
In 1924, the luxurious Refugio El Salto hotel was built in the city of San Antonio del Tequendama. After some time, the hotel was closed due to the increasing number of suicides among visitors. There are ominous legends and rumors surrounding this place.
Church of San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico
The church, located in the village of the same name, was buried under the lava of the Paricutin volcano in 1944, the village was completely destroyed. Miraculously, the altar and church bell tower remained intact, surrounded by ruins temple complex, protruding cones of frozen lava resemble foreign paintings.
Underwater city of Shichen in China
Ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia
The ghost town of Kolmanskop, built in a place where small diamonds were discovered in the sand, which the wind brought from the ocean. Large buildings were built in the city beautiful houses, school, hospital, stadium, and the settlement quickly turned into an exemplary german city. Everyone was counting on long-term prosperity, but alas, the “reserve of diamonds” quickly dried up. In addition, the city was difficult to live in due to problems with water and sandstorms, and people left it. Most of houses are almost entirely covered with sand and produces a depressing impression.
Pripyat, Ukraine
An abandoned city located three kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. After the accident in 1986, he fell into the exclusion zone and became a terrifying ghost of the power of nuclear energy. Nowadays there are organized excursions there, and stalkers come there for walks, but interest in this place does not subside, and new “urban legends” are being born.
