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Narrator: In Cyprus, vestiges of
opulence in an active no man's land.

This ill-fated coup sealed the
fate of this summer paradise.

Two mouldering bastions on
america's Gulf coast with a hopeful tale...

These structures saw
slavery at its worst.

But ended up becoming
constructions of freedom.

..An ancient refuge in Georgia
made to fend off a mighty enemy...

It's no surprise that the
Georgians wanted to hide,

the mongols were ruthless
and incredibly violent.

..And a frozen shell in the
Balkans built on a burning passion.

The whole story had began
with one man's pursuit of love.

Decaying relics,
ruins of lost worlds.

Decaying relics,
ruins of lost worlds.

Sites haunted by the past,

their secrets waiting
to be revealed.

In eastern Cyprus is
an entire neighbourhood

closed to the world for decades.

Famagusta is a lovely city

but as you move along the
coast, suddenly, you get wire,

you get signs telling
you not to go any further,

you feel like
you're in a warzone.

Inside this forbidden zone is
a mass of crumbling concrete.

Several high-rise
buildings face the sea

several high-rise
buildings face the sea

with these spectacular seafront
views, they must have been hotels.

Behind them, you have these
extensive neighbourhoods

of beautiful middle-class
homes, all empty.

Weeds now overrun
the deserted streets,

nature is starting
to reclaim this town.

There are no obvious
signs of war damage,

so what happened to this former
Jewel of the mediterranean?

One time, its streets
were packed with tourists

but one summer they were gone
and they never came back again.

Two checkpoints
are still existing

and the surrounding is
closed by barbed wire,

without accessing from these
check-points you cannot enter.

Beyond the barricades lies
a Warren of deserted streets

beyond the barricades lies
a Warren of deserted streets

and derelict buildings.

Professor ata atun imagined
a very different future

when he was a young civil
engineer in the early 1970s.

I had to work in this town
so there are lots of buildings

which I designed with my
brother who was an architect.

We had an office, drawing
and calculating the irons

and concrete and everything.

When I come here I always
look at it with pleasure,

with the memories of the past.

These are the petrified
relics of varosha,

the closed-off southern
quarter of famagusta city.

Varosha was this kind
of a sleepy backwater,

a fishing village and
because of the tourist potential

of that stretch of coastline,

in the 1960s it starts getting
developed as a beach resort.

In the 1960s it starts getting
developed as a beach resort.

With its modern investment
with its massive first great hotels

it started to look a
lot like Miami beach.

This is where all the a-listers
went, people like brigette bardot,

Richard Burton,
Elizabeth Taylor.

A shopping district

lined with designer boutiques
catered to the rich and famous.

The luxury goods were all
sold in these shops of this town.

There are lots of
shops, very nice places

which were selling products
of the well-known companies.

So, varosha became
not just a resort,

varosha became the resort.

Yet, beneath the glamour, here,

mistrust had been festering
across the island for centuries.

Cyprus is in a key
strategic location,

straddling the eastern
and western mediterranean

so it's seen a series of
conquerors and occupiers

including the
romans, the persians,

the Egyptians and
the Muslim kingdoms.

In the middle ages,
Cyprus was a Greek island

but a sizeable ethnically
Turkish population

comes to Cyprus, as well,

and there is off again on again

tension between the Turkish
and Greek communities in Cyprus.

Then came a moment
that threatened

to bring these tensions
to a brutal climax.

For a long time, Cyprus
was effectively a British colony

and in 1960 Cyprus
gets its independence

and there is hope and there
is promise and there is joy

and there is hope and there
is promise and there is joy

and then it all
goes a little bit dark.

A political partnership between

the ethnic Greek and Turkish
communities was established.

But the island's
first president,

Greek Cypriot archbishop makarios
wanted Cyprus unified with Greece.

In 1963 he proposed controversial
changes in the constitution

that would bring an end to the
power-sharing arrangements.

The Turkish Cypriots naturally
opposed unification with Greece.

A fuse had been lit
and both sides exploded.

This ignited a killing spree
in the capital of Nicosia.

Armed factions
roamed the streets

and homes and businesses
were looted and set ablaze.

In 1964 the United
Nations stepped in

and separated the capitals,
Greek and Turkish communities.

In the aftermath
of this bloody clash,

a buffer zone was created
known as the green line

and this was
patrolled by UN troops.

Like Berlin just a few years earlier,
Nicosia became a divided city.

Varosha survived the conflict

but the stage had
been set for its downfall.

The buffer zone created the
illusion of peace on the surface

but in July, 1974 when varosha
would have been packed with tourists,

tensions came to a head.

Frustrated that
Cyprus was still divided,

the government in
Athens decided to act.

Greek officers led troops
to the presidential palace

and burned it to the ground.

Their target, president makarios,
narrowly escaped with his life.

The people who are taking over
the Greek-dominated government

are openly saying that
they're going to seek unification

with the military
government in Greece.

Five days later the
Turkish government

responded by
initiating operation atilla,

sending in thousands of troops

to protect Turkish
Cypriot citizens.

The Turkish armed forces airdrop

1,000 airborne light
infantry in to northern Cyprus

and there is an amphibious
invasion of about 3,000

and there is an amphibious
invasion of about 3,000

and they move into northern
Cyprus and eastern Cyprus in force.

This intervention changed
the face of Cyprus,

in the course of
operation atilla,

you see major
population transfers,

about 40,000 Turkish
Cypriots living south,

they go north into
the Turkish zone.

160,000 Greeks living north, in
the Turkish zone, they go south.

Varosha with it's majority
Greek Cypriot population

was in the path of
the advancing forces.

The tourists, they had
no idea what was coming.

People who are vacationing,

who had gone to
varosha for a quiet holiday

are suddenly at the epicentre
of what might become a hot war.

Tourists and residents
fearing a massacre fled.

Professor ata atun was
with the Turkish army

when they entered varosha.

My commander ordered
me to guide the Turkish army

to the town so I was
the first who entered.

It was the ghost town,
nobody was living there,

we saw nobody on the town,

it was already
evacuated or abandoned.

Residents hoped they might soon

be able to return to their
homes and businesses.

But it quickly became clear,
this was not going to happen.

To prevent the looting,

the Turkish army
just fenced the town,

it was surrounded by barbed wires
and entry check-points were erected.

Eventually, an
agreement was reached

that would bring an
end to the war in Cyprus.

It was a short war,
lasting less than a month

it was a short war,
lasting less than a month

but its affects are
still felt to this day.

Varosha was left cut off
within the city of famagusta.

The buffer zone was reinforced

and expanded across the
whole length of the island.

And you know how
the Turkish Cypriots

stayed with its capital of
famagusta to the north of it

and south of the
line, you have Nicosia

which, essentially,
straddles the green line

but is the Greek capital.

Since the fall of
the Berlin wall,

Nicosia, now, stands as the
last divided capital in the world.

Today, varosha is slowly
starting to open up again

under the supervision of the
Turkish Cypriot government.

They've started to
clean up some varosha

but many of the
buildings are still roped off

and kept out of public view.

And kept out of public view.

However, visionary plans

could help bring this
ghost town back to life

and into the 21st century.

It was an interesting attempt by
Turkish and Greek Cypriots, now,

working together
between communities

to bring it back as an eco-city,

a kind of a blueprint for how
to build cities in the future.

So there's some hope that,

that might result in a renaissance
in varosha but only time will tell.

On the bayeux
west of New Orleans,

two rotting structures
cling to the water's edge.

They're laying down low almost
like an alligator waiting for its prey.

These thick powerful walls are
now starting to shed some bricks.

Inside, it seems they have
been left to decay for centuries.

There are dark tunnels,
graffiti on the walls,

stalactites hanging
down from the ceiling,

you really don't
want to be here.

They show the effects of being
in a very damp humid environment

and being battered
by the elements.

Their architecture leaves no
doubt as to their original purpose.

Clearly, these are
brick fortifications

which dates them in
the early 19th century.

Built to defend
against a foreign foe,

these mouldering
forts bore witness

to america's most
turbulent domestic moments.

It tells us the history
of slavery at its worst

and freedom at its hopeful best.

Raymond berthelot
is a local historian

who has been coming to
these forts for much of his life.

Whenever I was a kid growing up

highway 90, which runs right
outside the fort, was the major route

to go towards the
beaches in Biloxi, in gulfport

and the Mississippi Gulf coast.

So often times we would
take a Sunday drive,

stop at the forts, have a picnic

before carrying on to spend
the day at the beaches.

Rarely a destination
in themselves, today,

forts, pike and macomb
once worked in tandem

to control a very
different highway.

These two coastal forts were
meant to protect New Orleans

from naval forces entering lake
pontchartrain from lake borgne.

Two mid-waterways that connected
New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.

New Orleans' position at
the end of the Mississippi river

had been lucrative but
it also made it a target.

The Mississippi river
was the principal highway

of the United States
for travel and trade.

You had to protect New
Orleans as the likely place

where a lot of American exports
would go out of the country

and where imports would
come into the country.

Whoever controls that port controls
the future of the United States.

The importance of New Orleans

was made devastatingly
clear in the war of 1812.

The United States was a new
nation wanting to assert their power

and this was a real attack,

this was a real
threat from the British.

The British were
beaten back in 1815,

just five miles
from the vital city.

But the fledgling United States

wouldn't let anyone
get that close again.

When completed in 1827

the forts used the latest
military architecture

the forts used the latest
military architecture

to protect the vital waterways.

Red bricks were used
rather than wood and dirt

and the design was inspired
by napoleonic military structures.

They've got this curved front

which was really quite
groundbreaking for the time.

It allows for more cannons to
protect the area along the water.

So, here what we're looking at

is the carriage for a
32-pounder Cannon

so the Cannon would
sit on this carriage

with a train track going
around the stonework here,

so that way that the
Cannon could swivel and turn

and fire out at
ships passing by.

During war time

this fort would have
held a group of soldiers

in the number of 400 to 450.

The forts even housed
a secret weapon

to deter against any
waterborne attack.

These two brick structures
that you see, here,

which somewhat look like
oversized barbecue pits,

these are what are
known as hot shot furnaces.

And the way this would
work is that fires of coal

would be built underneath

and the solid shot would
be heated up to red hot

and then placed in
the Cannon and fired

and of course, this fort
would have been designed

to fire at wooden vessels

and so that very hot shot
would act as a burning agent

to the wooden vessels
once fired out of the Cannon.

Heavily armed to defend
against foreign invaders

these forts would
instead become embroiled

in america's internal conflicts.

During the seminal war

the us government attempted
to push indigenous people

the us government attempted
to push indigenous people

from their land in Florida.

The idea of the United
States government

was to move these people

out to the western
states onto reservations.

From 1837 these thick walls

were repurposed to
keep people, not out but in.

They also needed somewhere to
hold the imprisoned seminal people

who were waiting for
their forced relocation.

And fort pike had just the
right position and accessibility.

So at any given time,

there might have
been some 70, 80

seminal men women
and children, here.

At the height, this
area that you see, here,

would have housed
some 237 prisoners.

We do have records of
a couple of births, here,

as well as a couple of deaths,

now, unfortunately,
we do not know

now, unfortunately,
we do not know

where those cemeteries
are on the grounds.

It's not known how many
seminal people in total

were killed at the hands
of the federal government,

around 3,000 were forcibly
moved to reservations.

But a rupture in the constitutional
fabric of the United States

would soon make forts, pike
and macomb a staging post

for a different
kind of fight back.

In January, 1861,

days before Louisiana
succeeded from the union,

a new force arrived.

The fort was manned
by several us soldiers

and Louisiana militia
came and took the site over

and declared it as the
property of Louisiana.

Now, this happened
throughout the south

now, this happened
throughout the south

and it was these
types of actions

that actually sparked
Abraham Lincoln

to send troops to the south
that started the civil war.

Louisiana militia takes
over this federal fort

but then they, in turn, are
attacked from the sea by us forces

which actually don't
have to bombard the fort,

they just show up
with a powerful fleet,

and they say, "hey look
we're going to like unleash hell

"unless you surrender."

New Orleans soon
fell and these forts

became a base for a
new kind of union soldier.

When the civil war started,
black men who wanted to fight

were told that it was a white man's
war and they were turned away.

But a brutal first year of
fighting forced a re-think.

The civil war seemed
nowhere near an end

and the union army
desperately needed soldiers.

It was no longer a
white man's fight.

Formed from a combination

of free and formerly enslaved
African American men,

many of these new recruits had
to learn everything from scratch.

Former slaves were not
allowed near weapons

when they first enlisted
in the union army,

they, therefore, needed
to be trained to use guns

so that they would meet the
standard of other union soldiers.

These forts, once occupied
by the confederate troops

aiming to subjugate them,
now, became their drill yards.

Once black Americans
joined the fight,

fort pike and fort macomb

became training grounds
for the us coloured troops.

And so, here, they worked on
gunnery using the guns in the fort, itself,

and also just basic drill in
order to become, you know,

federal troops that
could then be deployed

against the confederate
states of america.

The record of the
African American soldiers

trained in these
forts was exemplary.

The native guard
units from Louisiana

actually participated in
the siege at port Hudson

which was the first time
that African American troops

were used in battle
by the United States

as a unified force.

With the development of new military
technologies during the civil war,

the forts were
rendered obsolete.

They were soon
abandoned to the elements

but their legacy lives on through
the people who served, here.

After the fort was abandoned

these African American
troops go out west

and become the buffalo soldiers

so fort pike is a very
significant aspect

of African American
military history

during and after the civil war.

These structures saw
slavery at it's worst

but ended up becoming
constructions of freedom.

Today, they are facing
a new kind of attack.

These forts are a
constant reminder

that as the coast of
Louisiana slowly erodes

we are losing, not
only our land mass,

but we are losing our history,
we are losing our culture.

On Croatia's mount medvednica

high above the city of Zagreb
are the ruins of a ghastly facility.

The snow-coated roads wind
through the rugged mountain

which is home to
wild boars and wolves.

You get this ominous feeling,
you feel isolated and alone.

You get this ominous feeling,
you feel isolated and alone.

An extensive complex
emerges out of the pine trees.

It has clearly been exposed
to the elements for some time.

The buildings and the forest
have almost blended together,

the trees are coming out of
the rooftops of this structure.

It's totally bare and neglected

with rubble scattered
everywhere inside.

If Stephen King were here,

he would write a scary
book about this place.

There are very few clues

that reveal the original
purpose of this facility.

Built to alleviate suffering,

these walls, instead, became home
to personal and political tragedy.

It's the story of love and murder
in a monumental national crisis.

It's the story of love and murder
in a monumental national crisis.

Marinko tot is an
investigative journalist

who spent four years uncovering
the truth of what went on, here.

Everybody in Zagreb

knows there is a big abandoned
building up on the mountain

but only a few
know the real story,

how it was built and
what was its true meaning.

If it wasn't for a
truly great love story

it may never have been built.

This romantic tale

began with the man who
helped establish the facility.

The area in which
we are right now

was an office of the first
principal, milivoj dezman.

Dezman had a bit of a crush
on his childhood sweetheart.

Dezman had a bit of a crush
on his childhood sweetheart.

Lady sram was a star
in Croatian theatre.

She was one of the most
beautiful actresses of her age

and doctor dezman
fell in love with her.

He wrote her love letters.

Unfortunately for dezman,

lady sram had gone
on to marry another man

and have children with him.

He didn't give up
hope that one day

he would be with the
woman of his dreams.

Then, lady sram husband
leaves her and this single mother

and her child need
to be looked after.

Dezman stepped in and
invited her into his home

but soon they would be
together even more, permanently,

here at the
brestovac sanatorium.

In the early 20th century

a cure for tuberculosis
hadn't been found

and the world was still reliant

on sanitoriums to treat
patients of tuberculosis.

On sanitoriums to treat
patients of tuberculosis.

Down in the city there was a
lot of industry, a lot of smoke,

a lot of coal facilities around

so the place was
erected on the mountain

because of the easy access to
nature and the fresh air for the patients.

This institution is the leading
edge of medical science

right here in brestovac.

But the pioneering sanitorium
may never have been built

were it not for a
tragic turn of events.

Before construction
began in 1909,

lady sram had been
diagnosed with tuberculosis.

And doctor dezman
is there for her.

In desperation, he did everything
possible to treat his beloved.

He really started to lobby and
initiate the public discussion,

he really started to lobby and
initiate the public discussion,

he was involved
in the fundraising

and all the permits
needed to erect this facility

as soon as possible.

It is said that the main reason
brestovac exists at this location

is because of his love
towards lady sram.

She was one of the
first patients at brestovac.

This room where lady
sram spent her time

is directly above the
room of doctor dezman

the room was beautiful and
she spent a lot of time, here,

windows were large,
she could see the forest,

she could see the
city in the valley,

she could feel the fresh air,

the nature and
everything surrounding her.

Despite dezman's
love and determination,

in 1913 her condition
took a turn for the worse.

In her final days

doctor dezman brought
lady sram to his private office

doctor dezman brought
lady sram to his private office

where she died in his arms.

After her death, brestovac
entered an era of expansion.

There's a multi-storey
building and then some ruins

and they're connected
by this sort of epic corridor.

We believe that the vips were
housed in the main building

and there was a degree of
separation between classes

and that walkway
basically was the bridge

between different
classes of people

accommodated at any given time

because these rooms and
services along in this complex

are not so spacious,
they are really cramped up

and something just built

to accommodate as
many people as possible.

Tuberculosis struck the high
and the low and as a result,

a public facility like this bought
all elements of society together.

These new buildings
included large wards

where poorer patients could be
cared for by fewer nursing staff.

The sanatorium was beginning

to reflect the increasingly
fractured world outside its walls.

Because there was a
lot of division in society,

this facility becomes

its own intense little
version of the Balkans.

These rifts would see
the once quiet hospital

ensnared in deadly conspiracy.

It's hard to believe
that such a brutal plot

would have been
conceived right here.

By 1921, the plot
was already underway.

This was the brestovac library,

there would have
been bookshelves,

wooden tables, furniture,
it was very popular.

One of the patients, here,

who was sitting at
the tables and reading

was Alia aliagicc, he was a
member of the communist party.

Bomb-throwing anarchists,
communists, partisans,

this part of the world was
focused on wild politics.

For aliagicc only the wildest
political statement would suffice.

Later on in maximum
discretion under the table

in privacy the library offered,

along with his companions

he planned an assassination
on the minister of interior.

He followed the
minister to a park,

there he shot and
killed him in cold blood.

There he shot and
killed him in cold blood.

Aliagicc and his comrades
were quickly rounded up

and he was sentenced to death.

After that assassination,
communist party was banned

and went underground where
it stayed for the next 20 years.

During the world war ii,

these underground forces
would return to brestovac.

Facing off against
invaders and collaborators.

The Nazis control Croatia

in part through the ustase,

the Croatian
nationalist fascist militia.

Brestovac was changed

to become a hospital for the
wounded Nazi and ustase soldiers.

By 1945 the communist forces

by 1945 the communist forces

had fought their way
back to the sanatorium.

They had vengeance
on their minds.

When the communist
partisans come to these people,

who have been abusing
them horribly for years,

the result is an
orgy of violence.

They took these wounded
soldiers out of the hospital

and into the forest
and executed them.

Their remains are
somewhere in the forests

around the facility, still
undiscovered, today.

Rumours that the ghosts
of these executed soldiers

still walk the corridors endow
it with a still very eerie legacy.

Since its abandonment in 1968,

since its abandonment in 1968,

the sanatorium was
forgotten and left to decay

but its story is still
etched into the city below.

The whole legacy of brestovac

and the love story of doctor
dezman towards lady sram

is so deeply embedded
into urban folk law

that even one street bears
the name of doctor dezman

and a rather nice restaurant
bears the name of lady sram.

And marinko hopes
that this facility

might one day help the
people of Zagreb again.

It was inspired by emotion
and by really community work

in order to erect it and it
was the pride of the city.

I'm hoping it will, once
more, be the pride of the city.

In the country of Georgia is an
ancient refuge inside a mountain.

In the country of Georgia is an
ancient refuge inside a mountain.

Georgia's physical geography

is breathtaking and
this part is no exception.

The one thing that catches
your eye immediately

is this almost
vertical rock formation

that rises dramatically
from the flat flood plain.

It appears to have
suffered a cataclysmic event.

Dr Alicia: The landscape,
here, used to look quite different.

It's as if the mountain
had been blown up

and we're getting to
see right inside of it.

Where once there
was solid rock face,

now the hillside is honeycombed

with a Warren of
passageways and cells.

There are long tunnels in
many areas hidden from view,

there are long tunnels in
many areas hidden from view,

it feels like it was a very
secretive and defensive place.

But who built this
subterranean sanctuary?

And why did they
hide it from the world?

Guram kipiani has
spent many years

exploring the
ancient city of vardzia.

(Speaks foreign language)

The oldest settlements, here,
date back thousands of years.

Many generations going
back to the bronze age

have cut and honed
the rock that is here,

the geology is perfect for it.

But the majority of the
settlements visible, today,

began life in the 12th century.

They got their name
when a young girl call tamar

was playing here with her uncle.

Young tamar got lost in the
caves and when called for, replied,

"I'm here uncle."

Which in Georgian
has the sounds,

'vard' and 'zia', thus giving
the place its name vardzia.

Amongst the ruins of vardzia

is evidence that tamar
was no ordinary girl.

Is evidence that tamar
was no ordinary girl.

(Speaks foreign language)

Described as a king as a
medieval Mark of respect

when she inherited the
throne and the half-built vardzia

from her father in 1184 she was
beset with enemies on all sides.

And turned to the
tunnels for protection.

The mongols were trying to
expand their territory westward,

this part of Georgia was
very much in their sights.

It's no surprise the Georgians,
here, wanted to hide,

the mongols were famed
for their ruthlessness.

Faced with a seemingly
imminent invasion

the queen ordered a rapid
expansion of the cave network.

The only way to enter the
city was through a secret tunnel

which started at
the nearby river.

Vardzia was soon
capable of housing

tens of thousands of residents,

along with it's thriving
monastic community,

all concealed
within the mountain.

The underground fortress
originally had 6,000 rooms.

This really was a full-on city,

there were meeting rooms,

reception chambers,
a throne room,

a bakery, a forge and a church,
all housed in this complex.

It took about 50
years to construct

but when you consider that
this was all done by hand,

but when you consider that
this was all done by hand,

that doesn't seem that long.

Its residents had
everything they needed

to remain self-sufficient
for a long time.

(Speaks foreign language)

But before the mongol armies

could put vardzia's
defences to the test,

queen tamar had to face-off
against a different threat.

The battle of basian is one
of the most important battles

in Georgian history.

Confronted by an overwhelming
force of seljuk Turks,

it fell to the queen to
inspire her nervous troops.

It fell to the queen to
inspire her nervous troops.

Queen tamar is said to have
addressed her army here at vardzia

walking barefoot down to the valley
floor where her troops were amassed.

The Georgians successfully
fought off the selguk Turks

and confirmed their status as
the absolute power in the caucuses.

When tamar died in 1213 she
left her nation stronger than ever

and vardzia continued life as
a cultural and religious centre.

This was the zenith of
the kingdom of Georgia.

But military prowess

could not protect the underground
city from what was coming.

1283 was a tragic
year for vardzia,

a huge earthquake struck
destroying vast parts of the cave city.

The thing about the earthquake

the thing about the earthquake

is that it totally ruined
the city's disguise.

The mountain face slid
off with the extreme tremors

exposing the caves within.

No longer hidden from the world,

vardzia's importance
slowly diminished.

Out of the rubble of the devastated
city, one aspect of life returned.

After the earthquake,

a small religious
community persisted.

They faced attacks and persecution
in the now exposed caves.

But a small number
of their descendants

have managed to
continue their legacy today.

The remaining monks still live like
their brethren from centuries past,

they collect their
drinking and bathing water

they collect their
drinking and bathing water

from the nearby ancient
underground spring.

But mainly, it's
tourists that you will see

wandering these tunnels
and carved passageways.

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