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Post by Parduz on May 21, 2012 1:07:43 GMT -9
If you're interested in medieval art and buildings, here's an article in italian about the 10 old monuments that have been damage/destroyed by the earthquake, showing them as they was 'til 2 days ago. You may use google to translate it, or just look at the years written on the brief descriptions. Not that i think they're more important than the population. Being me undamaged by the quake, as i live 40~50km far from the center, I luckily have no major troubles... the fact is that we're plenty of these kind of building, these are our history, our folklore and our identity. A lot of us, at the end of a travel, feels "at home" only when we see that particular castle/tower/church, which have epic, tragic, romantic, or funny legends/facts around it, often learned from a grandparent. Loosing them is adding sadness to sadness. I just wanted to share their beauty one more time.
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Post by Reivaj on May 21, 2012 4:18:16 GMT -9
My wife and I saw on TV about the earthquake and saw some medieval or Renaissance buildings mostly destroyed and were very sad . We love the architecture there antigua.que about the victims? are many?
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Post by Parduz on May 21, 2012 6:19:46 GMT -9
Not so much, when compared to the numbers of the other quakes we've got in the past. Still 7 persons died, 2 just for the fear. Compared to the quake at L'Aquila, other than being a different "type" of earthquake, the big difference are that we're on a "soft" plain instead of on hard mountains and, while the town are ancient, almost no one lives in "historic" houses anymore (some villages in the mountains around l'Aquila were built by the romans, and the houses are still that ones). 4 victims died at the workplace, 'cause the shed roof collapsed (and this turns me bad, 'cause they should be "new" buildings ). Still there's 5000 ppl waiting to know if their houses are secure, while the weather is cold and rainy despite we're toward the end of may.
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Post by kiladecus on May 21, 2012 12:50:25 GMT -9
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Post by stevelortz on May 21, 2012 12:57:16 GMT -9
You all have my condolences. Anything around here, east central Indiana, that was built before the year 1900 is considered too old and ready to be scrapped.
We don't have any sense of identity invested in old things here, but I got to visit Rothenburg ob der Taub one time, and was fascinated by how the people rebuilt the place after it was bombed out in World War II.
Again, I am sorry for your loss.
Steve
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Post by cowboyleland on May 21, 2012 17:44:09 GMT -9
It would be great if re-building the old buildings could be a "make work" stimulous project. We just need to convince the Germans/EU
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Post by jaggedjaw on May 28, 2012 6:36:42 GMT -9
Well, even if they fix up those old buildings, they will never have the same character they did before the earthqauke. sigh.
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Post by Parduz on May 28, 2012 7:09:58 GMT -9
Some will be repaired, some can only be take down. The more i follow this, the more i'm sad and ashamed. One town hall was'nt so great as a building itself, but it had fresco painting on the ceilings. Being it a town hall (so a working place) there was not so many that saw them before the quake. Sometimes i think that this whole country should be put in a glass ball and managed just like a museum.... ....sometimes only
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Post by glennwilliams on May 28, 2012 9:36:38 GMT -9
I'm from the Southwest, and were it not for the Anasazi, we wouldn't have any historic buildings before 1600 (and all they left were ruins). When I was an undergrad at Univ of New Mex, we had Sunday dinners at a 300 year old restaurant. We think anything before WWII is old. The town I'm in now was founded in the 1880s and all that's left is the jail and a bordello (no, it's a hotel, really, that's what the brochure says, but not the old residents).
I was on a tour of Cambridge and the guide told of a WWII American general who asked how old the buiuldings were. The answer was " from before the war." He asked, "World War II?" The answer was, "No, your revolution." Probably apocryphal, but we really don't have a lot of history.
In fact, I live near Pancho Barnes Happy Bottoms Riding Club (near Edwards AFB), a hangout for post-war test pilots. The Air Force deliberately annexed the land and bulldozed the club, embarrassed that such a disreputable place had contributed so much to our aviation history.
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Post by Parduz on May 29, 2012 0:05:36 GMT -9
Still dancing here. New victims, new ruins in the epicenter zone.
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Post by Rhannon on May 29, 2012 2:22:07 GMT -9
Still dancing here. New victims, new ruins in the epicenter zone.
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Post by emergencyoverride on Jun 12, 2012 15:07:15 GMT -9
Really sorry to hear about that. I hate to see things like that happen. Everyone loses. Glenn is right about us not having much history here, or at least not recognizing it. Most of the undergraduates I was teaching couldn't tell you anything about Desert Shield or Desert Storm, aka the 1st Gulf War, and that was only 20 years ago. Most of them were born after that. I'm currently working on a project interviewing the World War II and Korean War veterans in my area. So many of them are dying everyday that the military honor guards are stretched thin with the burials. I'm lucky in that I live about 2 miles from Ft. Campbell Military Reservation and there are a huge number of retirees from different eras here to speak with.
I hope things work out better in the future for the area around your home Parduz, and I'm glad you're safe.
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 13, 2012 5:37:02 GMT -9
I can totally relate to what Steve said about the veterans. The VFW post in the small city near my folks has recruited the High School and Junior High ROTC to help with the honor guards.
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