For close to 40 years, around 300 Brill trolleys drove the streets of Vancouver, powering the city’s transit system, before they were taken out of commission in the mid 1980s. Now the last trolleys sit 700 kilometers away in the ghost town of Sandon, BC.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.
Erbareti is a ghost town at 956 m/3,136 ft in the middle of the forest in the Italian Alps.
(Incredibly tall stone wall with a house on top)
Before the second Word war there were around 1,000 people living in the town, there was even a school.
Due to the isolation and the difficult living conditions people moved out of Erbareti.
Now there is no stable population and in winter it's completely abandoned.
Some effort is being made to preserve and renovated some of the houses, while many others are being totally left to their fates by the owners.
An unpaved road was built, and it's about to be attached to the high-speed fiber optic internet network, I guess to attract more people to even work from there.
I personally would see a silence-seeking artist living there, thanks for its isolation the only sounds heard are birdsongs and wild animals' noises.
(San Gaudenzio church)
Now there are just few people who stay there, mainly in summer, few locals who inherited their families' houses, and few foreigners who bought and renovated them. All of them are part of the association "Corsorzio di Erbareti", they promote the annual celebration of the Saint patron San Gaudenzio and the maintenance of Erbareti.
Църквата на с. Калиманица / The church of Kalimanitsa village
If you want to go off the beaten path, and maybe remember the impermanence of everything, go south of the Ogosta reservoir and there you’ll find the last remaining echo of Kalimanitsa.
The unfinished church, now in ruins and overtaken by nature, is all that remains. Kalimanitsa was never a large village. At it’s recorded peak in 1984, it numbered roughly 470 people. The village traces its origin to Roman times - remains of a villa and several workshops were uncovered, as well as a graveyard. The following inhabitants were likely nomadic or at least uninterested in more permanent architecture, and there’s scarce evidence of their livelihood. At a point, the village was inhabited by Turks, as evidenced by two Turkish graveyards - one combined with the old Roman one.
Following the wars and ethnic tension in the 1870s - 1900s, the Turkish villages sold or abandoned their property, and the village changed ownership once again. A Bulgarian graveyard came about, and joined the centuries of dead villagers.
Huddled between abandoned Roman mines, and four graveyards - Roman, Turkish, and Bulgarian - the village existed until 1986. The inhabitants were removed, along with the villagers from Zhivovtsi, to make way for what would become the Ogosta reservoir.
The reservoir was built but the territory of Kalimanitsa was never reached.