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Tom ward (narrates): A forgotten facility

that changed the face of a nation.

The factory was the envy of producers all over Europe.

Chilling tunnels hidden beneath a Scottish city.

Many people believe that body snatchers

might have used the vaults to store their victim's bodies.

Vestiges of an empire in Croatia still guarding the coast.

It's clear this site was built

to defend against a mighty naval assault.

And ruins of a battle that shook america.

The Japanese were able to put their boots on American soil.

Decaying relics,

ruins of lost worlds,

ruins of lost worlds,

sites haunted by the past,

their secrets waiting to be revealed.

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In the heart of Scotland's capital city,

dark caverns are hidden from view.

We're on a bustling main street in Edinburgh.

You have no idea that below the pavement

lies this whole series of vaults, of open spaces.

It's a maze that you wouldn't want to get lost in.

They weren't built to be beautiful.

There's damp old stones,

clearly these were built long

before modern construction techniques.

This place is spookily dark, untouched by sunlight,

this place is spookily dark, untouched by sunlight,

you definitely need a torch to explore down there.

What secrets are hiding

in the darkness of Edinburgh's vaults?

I've worked here for many, many years now.

And when you begin to get to know a place

very well you become more and more aware of what

there is still to know about it.

As a tour guide, Naomi Wells is fascinated

by Edinburgh's unseen past.

It's just a very haunting human story

and how people use and experience space

is something that I'm particularly interested in.

This vast network of tunnels

and chambers lies under a very unusual street.

What looks like an ordinary street

is actually a bridge spanning a low valley.

This is south bridge,

this is south bridge,

completed in 1788

with a bizarre ceremony to Mark the occasion.

When the bridge was complete

it was agreed that the eldest local resident,

a rich judge's wife,

would be the first person to cross the bridge.

Unfortunately, the particular old lady in question

passed away a few days before the opening ceremonies.

They decided they would still have the unfortunate

old lady cross the bridge

only it would be her funeral procession

and she would riding in a casket.

So, imagine,

the superstitious among the Edinburgh

population looking up at their brand-new bridge

and seeing it opened by a corpse.

Many people from that day forward

believed the bridge was therefore cursed

and some people even refuse to walk across it.

Yet others recognised it's value,

these spaces left under the Bridges arches

opened up a new world of opportunities.

Opened up a new world of opportunities.

When the bridge was built it was simply a series of arches

holding up the roadway,

but very quickly people realised

that this artery of transportation was a valuable piece of real estate.

They started building buildings on either side of the bridge.

That meant that the arches

were completely surrounded by these dwellings.

Floors and ceilings were added within the arches

to create a series of chambers up to four storeys deep.

In total the space is broken up

in to around 120 individual vaults.

The people who own the buildings on either side

now, had access to this space under the bridge, these vaults.

South bridge became Edinburgh's first shopping street.

All sorts of trades operated on the bridge,

everything from wine merchants, leather merchants,

everything from wine merchants, leather merchants,

book binders, cobbler shoe makers,

tailors, milliners, mansion makers as well.

And its merchants made shrewd use of the hidden floors

below street level.

Some of the vaults were used as workshops by the vendors

and those deeper below ground were used as storage.

You can still see the numbers painted on the storage shelves,

used as inventory for the trades' people.

It's a way of creating further profit.

They could make more money by converting

and renting out the space beneath it as well.

These chambers may have been convenient and profitable,

but a huge problem was starting to rear its head.

These vaults tended to get very damp when it rained.

So, here is probably the best example of how damp it is.

Anyone who is familiar anyone who is familiar

with how long it takes these mineral deposits

to form will know that in about 250 years

we shouldn't really have anything this size,

which shows truly just how much water

has been dripping down through the bridge.

The construction of the bridge was somewhat rushed

and done a little bit on the cheap

and the bridge builders neglected a key step.

One crucial material was missing, puddling Clay,

which would have made the bridge watertight.

Water percolated through the structure

and into the vaults.

It was a catastrophic blow to the merchants.

Goods are rotting, tools are rusting.

It's creating health conditions.

And also if you're in a very damp environment

which is very airless as the vaults is,

it begins to affect people's lungs.

It can begin to give you joint problems as well,

particularly if your feet are wet all day

and just the noise,

the continual drip, drip, drip

the continual drip, drip, drip

from the ceiling for 12, 14 hours a day.

One by one businesses began to leave.

Only seven years after their creation

the vaults were completely deserted but not for long.

Edinburgh was in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.

During this period there was enormous migration

within Scotland as people left the countryside

where the poverty was terrible,

and they moved by the thousands into the city

looking for any kind of work they could get.

No new buildings had been built in the city for many decades.

And as a result as the population doubles

in the early 1800s more and more people

are not finding anywhere to live.

The alternative to trying

to find shelter somewhere above ground

was to come down in to the now vacated chambers

beneath the bridge. Beneath the bridge.

Despite being damp and dark, the vaults appeared warm

and safe compared to sleeping out on the streets.

Rooms such as this one would have been advantageous

because it had a strong heavy door,

it's also got a fireplace so that you can warm up,

you can dry wet clothing,

and you have potential to cook an evening meal

to get some warm food inside you,

even if that's just a very thin watery broth.

And it creates a space that at least gives the opportunity for parents

to get their children up off the floor away from the damp

and, of course, any vermin

that would have been in the vaults as well.

Despite these benefits,

dangers were lurking around every corner.

It was a hot bed for criminal activity,

illegal whiskey distilleries, black market dealings, and worse.

These dark secluded chambers were the perfect place

because the police would never come down here looking,

because the police would never come down here looking,

no one would ever be any the wiser.

Up to 3,000 people could have been living here.

By the 1860s overcrowding, disease,

and poverty were completely out of control.

As Edinburgh's population boomed,

along came the eternal urban problem

of disease spread by human filth.

There was no sewage system,

waste would collect in the low lying areas,

and cholera was rampant.

The council needed to do something about this

to reduce mortality.

They began knocking down many of the old tenements,

so, they could be rebuilt with modern sanitation.

The new standards of hygiene

made a big difference in the city.

But destroying vast amounts of housing,

but destroying vast amounts of housing,

it's a major job and created a lot of rubble.

The council shoved all this rubble

from the demolition in to the vaults.

The clearances were not intended to do anything

about those that were underneath the bridge,

but filling in these chambers with rubble and stone

effectively evicted them.

Abandoned by the people of Edinburgh,

the vaults remained untouched for around a century.

Filled with rubble, the vaults were forgotten about

until the 1980s

when they were rediscovered and excavated.

A Scottish former rugby star

made it a project to start excavating

and exploring these old vaults.

Even after 4 decades of excavation,

Naomi believes there's still more to be discovered

underneath south bridge.

A few years ago, more vaults came to light.

So, there is always a possibility

so, there is always a possibility

that there might still be some left to discover.

On the remote Alaskan aleutian islands

is a collection of crumbling ruins that seem eerily out of place.

These islands are so far out

that they're actually closer to Russia

than they are to the contiguous United States.

The area is known for its harsh, inhospitable climate.

Yet, there are many structures here.

There are bunkers, there are gun emplacements.

This is definitely part of some military activity

on the island.

This must have been an important place to defend.

And there's evidence of a violent attack.

The cratering here makes it clear

that this was caused by bombs dropped in anger.

That this was caused by bombs dropped in anger.

Why were these rugged isolated islands

so, fiercely contested?

Many flat tyres in my lifetime doing just this.

This is a really scary place to drive, very sheer cliffs.

Laresa syverson is a native of the aleutian islands

and looks after many military structures

left abandoned here.

As a kid it was a giant playground.

So, right now

it's a pretty important national historic area.

The aleutian's military history began in 1867

when the United States bought Alaska from Russia.

But an armed presence wasn't really felt until 1940,

but an armed presence wasn't really felt until 1940,

when us troops descended on to amaknak and UN-Alaska islands.

The aleutian islands are militarised very rapidly

and very effectively at the outset of world war ii.

With a clear vantage point, a series of defences were built

on mount ballyhoo to protect

a us naval base in Dutch harbour.

These ruins are part of fort schwatka.

The buildings were made up of multiple barracks

and recreation centres, all to serve the 250 soldiers

who were stationed on this mountain.

Well, we're gonna go over to the barracks,

which is where a lot of the soldiers lived,

did their day-to-day activities.

There is about 100 buildings here in this area,

all up this side and...

Further all the way around to the point there,

further all the way around to the point there,

the lookout point.

This one obviously it's been pretty obliterated.

So, that's happened a lot to the other structures as well.

This damage reflects the unforgiving environment.

The weather here, I mean, it can be beautiful

and calm and serene,

and then it could also be blowing 120mi an hour,

especially up here.

We're a little over 800ft up from sea level.

That's one of the highest instalments actually

for us army in the United States.

It made life particularly tough for the soldiers stationed here.

Being sent to the aleutian's was not a moment of joy

for many of the men who served there.

Despite the harsh terrain,

a military presence here was deemed crucial by the us army.

After the attack on Pearl harbour, December 7th, 1941,

the American people shift their mind set.

They are ready for a war in the pacific.

As the Japanese achieved victory after victory in the pacific,

the us were scrambling to get their forces to new defences.

The aleutian islands could enable the Japanese forces

to attack the west coast

of the American and Canadian mainland

and control the north pacific.

Fort schwatka was one of many

defence fortifications strategically placed

along the archipelago's coastline.

They became known as the iron ring.

So, we have a lot of cement bunkers,

we have the gun emplacements.

That's one of the gun mounts out towards that way.

That's one of the gun mounts out towards that way.

On a clear day you could potentially see aircraft.

In may 1942

the defenders worst fears were realised.

A secret Japanese message had been intercepted by the us,

warning of an impending attack.

They had rushed planes to nearby airfields

so, that they would be ready to launch on a moment's notice.

They were just completely ready for this attack.

The 3rd of June, the day they had been anticipating.

However, the notoriously bad weather was about to wreak havoc

on the us plan when the skies turned.

The Japanese fleet got lost in the fog,

not lost to themselves but lost to the Americans.

And that gave the Japanese a new element of surprise.

Cutting through the fog, the Japanese were heading

for the us naval base below the fort,

for the us naval base below the fort,

Dutch harbour.

In the early hours of the morning, a deadly barrage was unleashed.

On the ground, shrill sirens sounded

waking sleeping soldiers.

Men ran to their anti-aircraft guns.

This was an 8-inch gun,

the largest gun the military had at that time.

And it gave you 22mi in any direction

that you were shooting.

This was probably one of the first things

that started going off when they were attacked.

It wasn't just the fog that would cause chaos.

The gunners are shooting at the Japanese planes,

they're expecting air support.

They're expecting it, they're expecting it,

and it doesn't come.

The nearest airfield 70mi away

on umnak island was hampered by communication problems.

There was interference, so the men weren't able to get

news to the airplanes to take off.

So, the crews sat there completely unaware of what was going on.

The Japanese were able to continue

their ferocious airstrikes on Dutch harbour the next day.

They attacked fuel tanks,

they attacked the barracks and they attacked the hospital.

And things were about to get worse,

a landmark event that shocked america to its core.

The Japanese landed ground troops on two of the islands.

Now, these islands are not themselves of great significance,

but the Japanese presence on land

had the potential to be psychologically effective.

This is a big deal to the United States

and it's a big deal to Japan.

And it's a big deal to Japan.

No other foreign power had occupied American soil

since the British in 1812.

The us government knew that it could not allow the Japanese

to hold us soil so close to the mainland.

They retaliated by launching an all-out campaign

to recapture the islands.

Victory was secured 14 months later at a heavy cost,

nearly 4,000 American

and Japanese soldiers lost their lives in the fighting.

The native umnak people who had inhabited the islands

for 8,000 years also suffered the horrors of war,

and not only at the hands of the Japanese.

After the bombing the American government

after the bombing the American government

rounded up all the umnak people

and interned them in south east Alaska

to abandoned fish camps.

The evacuation was meant to secure their safety

but the operation was a disaster.

They are not well housed, they are not well fed,

and it is not a good look

for america that the aleut islanders

were treated like enemies almost.

It's really hard to hear the stories of people dying on the way,

people dying there, never being able to return home,

not being able to be buried at home.

They were banished for three years.

It's a very dark chapter.

It's really hard for people to talk about it like even my grandma,

it's really hard to hear what those people went through.

And with each time that, you know, one of our elders passes away,

and with each time that, you know, one of our elders passes away,

we learn a little bit more and we lose a little bit more.

Alaska would never be the same again

after the battle of the aleutian islands.

In the world war ii, it became very clear

how important Alaska is for strategic control

of the north pacific.

Only a few years after Alaska becomes a state.

Alaska was not a folly,

Alaska was strategically vital.

In 1996 us congress designated

the aleutian islands as a national historic area,

dedicated to the aleut people.

They lost so much,

and today there's a national world war

and today there's a national world war

ii park in the area that works

to recognise the sacrifices that they made.

So, those stories are starting to be told

and becoming a part of the broader story

of the United States in world war ii.

My hope for the future is that it will be

a safe place for people to learn about

the world war ii history of the aleutians,

not just our island but the whole aleutian campaign.

In remote northwest Iceland lies a sleepy village

that was once an economic powerhouse.

Well, this is a land that's well-known

for things like vikings and witchcraft, sorcery,

as well as the beautiful northern lights.

The surrounding landscape gives this isolated village...

Another worldliness type feeling.

Broad daylight reveals clues to the village's past.

One building really stands out,

this concrete structure that you really wouldn't expect

to find in an otherwise picturesque place.

The first thing you see when you step inside

are these vintage machines.

We see conveyor belts,

and pipes, and all kinds of equipment.

In it's day this was probably a cutting-edge facility.

Could the industrial building explain

why this village has been abandoned?

It smelled, but they called it the money smell.

Yeah, it's difficult to imagine

yeah, it's difficult to imagine

to have hundreds of people living here

but it was a thriving little village back then.

This is djupavik,

a quiet Hamlet that sits on one of Iceland's

many beautiful fjords.

Heoinn asbjornsson grew up here.

My parents moved here when I was very young.

They're probably the only ones that lived here

the whole year-round.

Empty buildings, no sounds of traffic,

and not a single person in sight.

But in the first half of the 20th century

life here was very different.

These houses were built here in the 1940s

due to the fact that people had jobs here,

and they started to settle and had their families.

So, all of these houses were full of people back in the day.

And they were all here because of one thing.

Herring is a fish that has been used

herring is a fish that has been used

for human consumption for many, many centuries.

Iceland's relationship with this humble fish began in 1867.

The herring industry really built the economy

of modern Iceland.

By the early 1930s herring accounted for almost

a half of the nation's total export income.

Djupavik with it's natural harbour wanted a piece of the pie.

In 1934 ambitious plans

were put in place to build a herring processing plant

and the largest concrete building Iceland had ever seen.

So, the amount of concrete is really unbelievable.

The factory is around 6,000 square meters.

The factory is around 6,000 square meters.

There's over 1,200 tons of strengthening iron

in every beam and the lofts and roofs.

Construction was a huge challenge.

There were no roads to this location,

everything had to be bought in by ship,

the concrete, the equipment, and ultimately all the workers.

So, this is the boiler,

the steam engine, the heart of the factory.

It's over 50 tonnes.

This was taken out of a shipwreck on the south coast of Iceland

and dragged behind a boat

all the way from the stranded ship towards here.

The travel took about...

Three months.

And this actually was coal heated

and produced steam for the factory

in order to just let it function.

So, there was a vital part to bring to this factory.

So, there was a vital part to bring to this factory.

Building this factory

was an utterly remarkable engineering feat.

It really shows how extraordinarily resilient

and resourceful these Icelanders were.

It was one of the largest

and most modern of its kind in all of Europe.

The production line was set in motion

in 1935 when the first boats

sailed into the bay with their holds full of herring.

So, this is where they stored

the fish underneath the main building.

So, on both sides of this corridor are eight big rooms,

the middle that we see here

they had a conveyor belt

that actually transported the fish when it came time to

process it, it came all the way up to the third level

where the production started.

All three of the factory floors

were filled with modern machinery for processing the fish.

The key to a factory like this

was that it broke the herring down

in to constituent parts that could be sold separately.

One by-product was invaluable, herring oil,

which the efficient modern production

was able to make in staggering quantities.

So, in each tank they could actually store

between 1,000 to 1,200 tonnes of oil.

When it was at the peak of the production

they could run through the factory

for 24 hours over 500 tonnes of material of fish.

A lack of oil before and during the world war ii meant

this Icelandic product was in great demand.

Fish oil particularly was used to lube up small machinery

and even in some cases used

and even in some cases used

for military purposes to make explosives.

Prices went up

and the factory experienced rapid success.

It was actually liquid gold at the time.

For one ton of herring oil sold from the factory

you could actually go and buy an American car.

The owners of the factory became incredibly wealthy.

Herring changed the economic landscape,

entire towns and cities like djupavik

were built on the legacy of the trade.

This was Iceland's version of the American gold rush.

People came from far and wide to seek their fortune.

They had a bakery, there was a doctor on the spot,

there was a post office and telephone station.

At the height of the fishing season,

hundreds of people would descend on djupavik.

The factory was so crowded that workers lived in tents

the factory was so crowded that workers lived in tents

and even on an abandoned steam ship.

Between 20 to 30 people the most in the ship at once.

The people that took the short straw

of sleeping in the ship were often

single men that loved to drink.

Business was good here but the bubble was about to burst.

By the 1940s

the ships were bringing back just a fraction

of what they've been bringing in a decade earlier.

The number of herring in Icelandic

waters had dramatically declined.

You had bigger boats, bigger nets,

and with that bigger catches.

And so herring stocks began to collapse

in parts of the Atlantic.

Climate change effecting ocean currents

was also a major factor.

As a result, herring migration routes shifted.

As a result, herring migration routes shifted.

And with no herring in nearby waters

the tanks dried up.

The plant finally shut its doors for good in 1954.

It had had a brief but intense run

less than 20 years from boom to bust.

After the factory's closure

the village remained abandoned until the 1980s.

We had a connection because of my great grandfather

was here working for the factory.

The image of the place never left my father.

And then all of a sudden, he was the owner of the factory.

They opened a hotel that we know as the hotel djupavik today.

The hotel that they run

has been referred to as the loneliest hotel in Europe.

Has been referred to as the loneliest hotel in Europe.

Of course, it's not a luxury hotel,

but it's like a grandma,

good feel, guest house.

And that's the spirit of djupavik in our opinion.

The upkeep of the former factory isn't easy.

We take tours through the factory,

we have opened an exhibition

that tells the history about it.

There's no doubt that without the herring,

Iceland wouldn't be the country it is today.

We have very high living standards.

And this building is part of the steps

that we took towards the modern-day Iceland

that we know.

In north west Croatia

in the calm waters of the adriatic is a ruin

that charts the rise and fall of a European empire.

It's a beautiful rugged stretch

and with beautiful aquamarine

blue water washing against a rocky coast.

Then perched high on this hillside

is a building that seems to blend in to the surroundings.

The top is carpeted in vegetation.

But as you get closer,

there are distinctive features

that indicate that this is a complex built

for defence.

It's a fortress.

A circular construction

at the heart of the building appears older

than its surroundings.

The way the rest of the structure radiates out

from the central point seems to suggest that

it expanded over time.

Underground is a maze of claustrophobic passageways.

Once you get inside it's quite cramped.

Quite dark and dingy

and into these narrow galleries and narrow rooms.

The sheer scale of it suggests

that it housed a lot of soldiers and a lot of supplies.

Who built this and what was it that required

who built this and what was it that required

such immense protection?

And did this fort do the job it was designed for?

The story here dates back to the early 19th century,

a time when Croatia fell under the rule of the Austrian empire,

and then later the combined forces of the austro-Hungarians.

I like come to here.

This is a very fascinating place

because there are lots of stories,

or legend about this fortress.

Igor jovanovic is a local teacher intrigued

by the building's past.

You can feel the history from that stone.

They are shouting about history,

pula and Europe of the 19th and 20th century.

The first structure's built in the 1820s,

and that's when the Austrian empire

really started to fortify this area.

It's original construction

it's original construction

owes much to the strategic position of the city

and the harbour it overlooks.

Pula has a long history that goes back centuries.

You only have to look at the incredible Roman amphitheatre

to get an idea of just how long.

What's interesting is that it was kind of forgotten about

until the early 1800s.

At that point it wasn't even a town,

it was just a small fishing village of around 800 or 900 people.

But suddenly everything changed.

Prior to 1815,

the Austrian empire was landlocked

after it lost its coastal lands in the war with Napoleon.

After Napoleon's fall,

they were able to claw back territory

and pula was top of their list.

They got their access to the ocean back again,

and they didn't waste any time

in making it a centre for ship building

and a way to project naval power.

And they've got to endower it with fortifications

that will mean that no foreign Navy can come in

and tear it all up.

Located just a few miles from the city of pula

and the harbour it was built to protect,

this is fort punta cristo.

This huge monument was built in several phases.

First phase started

when first martello tower was built here.

Second phase was 1851

when the second larger semi-circular fort was built.

From 1880 to 1883 two additional wings were added,

which transformed it in to the polygonal fort

that we see today.

There are no cannons or big guns left,

but you can still see

the circular metal mounting points at strategic places.

This was short range Cannon, field Cannon,

16 centimetres rotating with four people,

supplied with four people,

and protected three sides of the view.

And protected three sides of the view.

We had this Cannon mount on every corner

of fort punta christo.

This fortress was heavily defended

and most definitely ready for action.

As the fortification grew so, too did the empire's Navy.

Soon the harbour was brimming with heavy destroyers,

cruisers, and torpedo boats.

The pride of the fleet

was the new dreadnaught class battleships,

stronger, faster, and more heavily armed

than any ships ever built before them.

In a pretty short space of time they had amassed

a significant and powerful Navy.

And it would have been really a sight to look out

in to this bay of pula during the heyday

of the austro-Hungarian empire

when their entire battle fleet was assembled there.

It was full of warships ready to go in the war,

ready to act. Ready to act.

It's genuinely easy to see

why this was such a vital area to protect.

But to defend this mighty naval fleet,

punta christo was just one of a series

of forts built during this time.

The austro-Hungarian's knew

that it wasn't enough merely to fortify the harbour of pula,

they had to fortify the entire area and coastline.

27 forts and 60 artillery batteries were constructed,

which fort punto christo was the largest.

It's 100,000 square feet,

it accommodates around 500 soldiers, you know,

several companies of infantry and all their stuff.

People lived here from all the nations

from austro-Hungarian empire,

long military service.

There is no connection with local people.

It was very, very, very difficult to live here.

The soldiers slept in cramped underground quarters,

spending each day preparing themselves for war.

Spending each day preparing themselves for war.

Now, we are here in the rifle mount

for 15 shooters.

The shooter stand here on the guard

like this with the rifle.

Next to him was second member of the crew

who give him ammo.

This was very hard job.

You can imagine, stay here eight hours,

it was the shift, or if you are punished

maybe 10, maybe 12 hours.

With the guns at fort punto christo ready,

who would possibly dare to invade?

In December 1914

France made it's move.

When world war I started,

one French submarine curie

tried to enter in pula bay

to destroy some warships,

but they were discovered.

The sub was spotted from the fort

and the south battery was the first to open fire.

Very rapidly other ships from the fleet closed

very rapidly other ships from the fleet closed

in and sunk the sub, they took it down very quickly.

The failed attack sent a powerful message

to the enemies of the austro-Hungarian empire.

The reality was that there was no way

a conventional seaborne attack could succeed.

They had to come up with something much better

to get any hope of getting in to that harbour

and sinking a lot of austro-Hungarian ships.

In the final days of world war I,

Italy played its hand.

A 37-year-old major named rafello Rosetti

had been working on a new technology

designed specifically to take out pula's defences.

Under the cover of darkness two Italians

secretly piloted a torpedo that had been designed

to run at low speed to avoid detection.

And they go right up to austro-hungry first dreadnaught,

the viribus unitis,

and they attach tnt mines to the hull of the ship.

The charges were set, the charges were set,

around 6:30am they detonated.

Around 400 crew members were killed,

either by the initial blast or by drowning afterwards.

This was one of the only occasions

when the defences of fort punto christo were breached.

But the tragic irony of this story

is that the war was already over for the austro-Hungarians.

They had surrendered their fleet only the day before

and it handed it over to the newly created kingdom

of the Serbs, croats and Slovenes.

It's not sure if the Italians who made this attack

knew that the austro-Hungarians had already surrendered

or if they just wanted to make sure

that their ship didn't fall into the hands of their rivals.

Either way the outcome was the same,

and it meant that a lot of people were needlessly killed.

At the war's end,

fort punto christo passed peacefully

to Croatia's new occupying force.

There is no enemy anymore, the war is over.

There is no enemy anymore, the war is over.

Here was celebration, party, 400 soldiers,

they celebrated, they will go home.

The fort would soon become redundant.

Basically built on technology

from the 1830s through the 1890s

it's now effectively obsolete,

so, it's all abandoned

and has no military purpose any longer.

Fort punto christo

may no longer be used as an instrument of war,

but that hasn't stopped other marauding hoards from invading.

Once a place full of young soldiers,

it's now full of young party goers.

For the last few years,

it's been the base for summer music festivals,

exhibitions, and other cultural events.

It's a complete world away from it's original purpose,

which is probably a good thing.

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