Six historical monuments devoured by the flames

The flames that have invaded today the iconic Notre-Dame cathedral

Paris

they shaved
majestic 96 meter needle in front of the eyes of the whole world. The loss of this heritage of humanity, which preserves nine centuries of history, is invaluable.

This devastating fire recalls the remains of other disasters that have also touched iconic monuments, museums and relics from around the world. This represents another sadness for the history of buildings damaged by the unstoppable pbadage of fire.

In the most recent present, the bicentenary memory
The National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, which caught fire on September 2, 2018, is still dormant. This scientific and cultural institution, the oldest in the country, was home to invaluable collections of paleontology, anthropology and archeology, made up of about 20 million pieces.

Thanks to modern technologies, the Ministry of Education of Brazil has developed a hundred days only after the tragic episode
a possible recreation of much of the collections to be revived online around the world.

However, this is not the fate of other monuments, which had lost their distinctive features and their irreplaceable content before the digital era. This is the case of the old Saint-Paul cathedral of

London

In England, which was destroyed during the great fire of that city in 1666. The Gothic cathedral built between 1087 and 1314 had one of the tallest steeples in Europe, with 140 meters. After its cremation, was built at its original location the current Anglican baroque style cathedral, which retains its name.

In 1734, another fire of uncertain origin destroyed the royal palace of the Alcazar

Madrid

, in

Spain

which belonged to the Spanish monarchy and had been extended several times before burning. Imposing because of its irregular architecture, the residence of the Spanish royal family has also ambaded about 500 works of art and paintings such as Las Meninas de Velázquez. In its place, the current Royal Palace of Madrid is preserved.

Another loss among the most devastating of religious buildings was the burning of the Church of the Society of Jesus at

Santiago, Chile

. In the middle of the night of the day of the Immaculate Conception – December 8, 1863 – eruptions of a great magnitude affected the Jesuit period, dating from 1595.

The
The library of Alexandria – the largest in the world around the third century BC – was also a victim of the flames. The city-based compound through which the great Alexander, who has accumulated up to 900,000 manuscripts, was affected by the fire caused by the troops of Julio Caesar in 48 BC.

At the same time, the National Library of Sarajevo, inaugurated in 1896, was burned by Serbian militias. There, two million books and thousands of documents died.