With hostilities flaring up all over the place, public interest in underground shelters is increasing. For quite some time, people have been doing their best... 13.08.2021, Sputnik International
Among the countries where people frequently have to take shelter in case of rocket attacks, Israel stands out. Locals have been to bomb shelters so often that in some cases they have adopted a creative approach to these facilities and decorated them with artwork.In some European countries, bomb shelters have even been transformed into art objects.Check out Sputnik's gallery to find out more.
With hostilities flaring up all over the place, public interest in underground shelters is increasing. For quite some time, people have been doing their best to secure a place where they could hide with their family in case of serious danger.
Among the countries where people frequently have to take shelter in case of rocket attacks, Israel stands out. Locals have been to bomb shelters so often that in some cases they have adopted a creative approach to these facilities and decorated them with artwork.
In some European countries, bomb shelters have even been transformed into art objects.
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An escape staircase at a nuclear shelter from the Cold War era is pictured at the five-star Jalta Hotel in downtown Prague, Czech Republic on 4 December 2013.
A Sri Lankan Tamil villager Markanbu Anandan, 48, right, digs a bomb shelter in his backyard, in Kilinochchi, 328km north of Colombo, Sri Lanka on 20 June 2006.
Visitors pose for photographs next to contemporary art displayed at the war bunker, near the town of Konjic, 80km south of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on 26 April 2013. The once-secret bunker, built to shelter Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito and the communist leadership from a nuclear war, became for three months one of the world's quirkiest contemporary art galleries.
Indian border villagers take shelter in an Indian army bunker during alleged firing from the Pakistan side of the Line of Control during ongoing clashes in Abdullian village, some 37km from Jammu, on 24 August 2014.
People gather at a bomb shelter on South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island to take cover after the alarm went off to warn against a possible North Korean rocket attack on 28 November 2010.
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