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Because of the last night rain a donjon – the main tower of the national monument of architecture Chembalo fortress collapsed.
Balaklava news website reports of this.
Last night, according to branch manager “Chembalo Fortress” of the national reserve Chersonese Mycola Olekseyenko, donjon laying came off ad dragged a part of the wall and the dome of the tower.
Supervisor of the archeological expedition in Karazin KhNU in Balaklava Serhiy Dyachkov said that the tower’s collapse is the “first signal for those who is responsible for monuments preservation.
The fortress was built by natives of Italian Genoa in XIVth century. The ruins of the fortress with quite preserved donjon have remained up to these days. Three years ago the reconstruction of the tower began: there have been framing scaffolds around it till this spring.
// 18.07.2008 12:54
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/ukraine/2008/4226.shtml
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