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[Posted March 1.]
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Tito's nuclear bunker becomes art gallery The nuclear bunker designed to shelter Yugoslavia's former dictator Marshall Tito has become an art gallery. A warren of tunnels and bomb-proof rooms 250 metres below a Croatian park was created in 1949 after Tito's rift with Stalin. National park authorities have now turned it into exhibition hall and planning more events in the future with investment of £500,000. It remained a secret to all but a few of the national elite and was only discovered in 1991 after Croatia's split from Yugoslavia. American national park experts provided help on transforming the bunker, which lies under the peak of Mount Velebit at Paklenica, for use without disturbing nature. Tito, who died in 1980, built the system at a cost of millions. It is one of many Cold War bunkers across Europe being transformed into peacetime sanctuaries. The one that served Tito's opposite number in East Germany, Erich Honecker, has new residents moving in this week - a colony of bats. Story filed: 12:23 Thursday 15th November 2001 Original article... Annanova |
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