10 incredible underground cities in the world

Stories about people living in mines, caves or abandoned tunnels are not strange stories. However, few people know that in the world there are still amazing cities right below the ground. There are cities that existed long ago, when the level and knowledge of construction is still poor, but they can still exist for hundreds of years until now.

10. Beijing underground city, China

Beginning construction in 1969 and continuing for the next several decades, Mao Zedong ordered the construction of an emergency hiding place for the government at that time. The underground city is 30km long just below Beijing. It was built with the main purpose of military defense during the Sino-Soviet border war.

This huge underground city includes a full range of restaurants, schools, hospitals, theaters and so on. fully serve the needs of the people. It was built to provide temporary shelter for more than 40% of Beijing's population when there were attacks on the city. Scattered in the city is more than 1000 sanctuaries for air strikes. By 2000, the underground city system under Beijing was open to other sightseeing tourists, many areas of the city were also used as accommodation for students and homeless people.

9. Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain

While the other underground cities on this list are abandoned or serve tourists, Setenil de las Bodegas is still growing with more than 3,000 people living. The houses here are not entirely underground, but they are built deep into the cliffs with quite special architecture but still very solid. During the previous war, Setenil de las Bodegas was used as a military fortress of the Roman Empire.

8. Moose Jaw, Canada

The city of Moose Jaw, located in Saskatchewan, Canada, where there is a long and harsh winter. Due to the extremely cold winter weather, people here have led to the decision to build tunnels just below the city to avoid the cold. However, after the tunnels were built not long ago, they were exploited by bandits and smugglers for illegal purposes. The tunnel system is developed and expanded by them, becoming a literally underground city, where illegal activities such as gambling, prostitution, drugs and smuggling are extremely developed. Many people consider it a small underground LasVegas.

7. Giza Plateau, Egypt

The Giza Pyramid is one of the wonders of the ancient world and still exists so far. Hiding many mysteries, one of them is the tunnel architecture and the mysterious weather spreads beneath the Giza plateau. Beginning in 1978, archaeologists began to study, as they considered this an important structure in human history. However, until now, the mystery is still a mystery. The city of the gods at the foot of the Giza pyramid has yet to be brought to light, there have been many rebuttals and the city is only fictional to sanctify what people have done.

6. Portland, United States

Below one of the largest cities in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon, the United States is an underground city known as the "Shanghai Tunnel". This underground city is located just below Chinatown, used to transport smuggled goods and illegal immigrants. Thanks to infrastructure with tunnels extending throughout the city, Portland is known for its escalating criminal activities. Activities of smuggling, trafficking in people and prostitution have a growing opportunity. Currently the Shanghai tunnel has been opened to visitors, but this is only a small remnant of the former underground city system.

5. Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland

Wieliczka Salt Mine is located in the south of Poland and was built in the 13th century. Originally a huge salt mine, it was one of the longest-lived salt mines, until 2007. Inside the Wieliczka Salt Mine it was not only used for salt mining, it also had a home system. The miner's dwelling is next to the amazingly massive church architecture system, with a total length of up to 300km. During World War II, the Wieliczka Salt Mine was used by the German army as a place to build and produce ammunition. Currently the mine is open to visitors with more than a million visits per year.

4. Coober Pedy, Australia

Like Spain's Setenil de las Bodegas, the town of Coober Pedy still exists and currently has more than 1600 inhabitants. Coober Pedy is considered to be the capital of opan stone in the world, because it is the place with the most opan mining production in the world, the stone is more valuable than gold and diamond. People here have built underground houses and called them dugouts , to fight the harsh heat on the ground. At the same time to serve the gem mining, a system of shops, pubs, churches was also built and gradually developed into a small underground town.

3. Kish, Iran

Below the Kish city of Iran is a huge cave system, an unnamed underground city known as Kish underground city. Many people believe that this place is more than 2500 years old, originally used to exploit and manage groundwater resources. Later became a place for worship activities, many people thought that this was a very sacred place. Currently the Iranian government is planning to renovate and develop an underground resort with a high-class restaurant system, utilizing natural hot water and an area of ​​over 10,000 square meters.

2. Cappadocia, Turkey

Turkish Cappadocia has long been famous for its underground city system, a complex system of tunnels and underground floors. It consists of seven basements and is thought to have thousands of different buildings, with intertwined roads intertwined as an underground maze. The main income source of the people here is wine production, the famous Derinkuyu wine is brewed in the ground for decades. It also contains many mysteries that outsiders never knew, one of the rumors about this underground city that hid the secrets of Christianity in the sweep of the Roman Empire.

1. Burlington, England

Perhaps many people have heard of the name Cheyenne Mountain, a state-of-the-art underground infrastructure system in the US, used as a shelter and run by high-ranking officials at war. Nuclear. However, little is known about the British system with a similar system, the city of Burlington was built in the 1950s.

Burlington is built in an old quarry with an area of ​​up to 900,000 square meters, which can provide shelter for more than 4,000 government officials. This underground city also has a system of roads with a total length of up to 95km, with stations, railways, water treatment systems, restaurants and command facilities. Burlington was built and maintained until 1991, when the cold war ended.