We often hear about unusual or unusual tours and, surely, those of the Abandoned Cities (Ghost Town in English) are among them. Those of the ghost towns are unusual tours because before you can visit them you must know their present and past history of these places. An important story, essential with respect to the place itself and which often crosses catastrophic events that led to its abandonment (wars, natural disasters or social events such as the failure of the local economy with the exodus of the population to more economically favorable areas ).
Visiting a Ghost Town means making a leap into the past, more or less recent, remained, for the above reasons, trapped in time. A Ghost Town offers itself to us with empty streets reconquered by nature, signs of faded and rusty shops, dilapidated houses, sometimes dangerous, but which still show their original architecture and, often, still contain personal belongings of the owners who, for hurry or fear, they never recovered. A place where, often, the first and intriguing sensation is MYSTERY. Think that Italy is the Nation of the Villages, around 8,000, of which around 1,000 are said to be ghost towns.
One of the tragically best known Ghost Towns is, perhaps, Chernobyl! This town and its surroundings were abandoned in the days following April 26, 1986 when the most serious nuclear accident occurred at the VI Lenin nuclear power plant located in northern Ukraine (at the time part of the Soviet Union) never occurred in a nuclear power plant (classified with the maximum level of 7 of 7 on the INES scale). From the following night, in about 1 month and with dozens of vehicles, all those who lived within a radius of 30 km, about 116,000 people had to abandon their homes and their jobs. The abandonment, citizens were told, was only as a precaution and for this reason to bring only a few personal belongings, because they would soon be back ... which never happened again. Today, in the forbidden area, you can see thousands of vehicles used for the eviction and management of the area, many military vehicles, abandoned houses still perfectly furnished and complete with furnishings and what was needed for daily life, parks with children's games, shops with still their wares.
A Tour, therefore, in a Ghost Town is to visit a place frozen in time, which shows itself as it was when it was frequented by our fathers or by our ancestors. A unique place to literally walk in history, to relive social or catastrophic events that caused its abandonment, but above all they are magical and mysterious places, often a paradise for photographers, who turn on the brain, forcing it to reflect, and which they leave in the heart atmospheres and unforgettable memories!
