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YEREVAN, AR Armenia – When Tosya Gharibyan asked her husband to dig a basement under their house to store potatoes, she had little idea that the underground labyrinth that he was going to eventually produce would be one of the main tourist draws in Armenia. The one-story house in the village of Arinj outside the Yerevan capital may not look like much, but today it attracts visitors from around the world after a 23-year-old love job by Tosya's late husband, Levon Arakelyan
Come see a sinuous network of underground caves and tunnels known as the "Levon's Divine Underground".
In the cold and tranquility, Tosya leads tourists through corridors linking seven rooms adorned with Roman columns and ornaments like those of medieval facades. Armenian churches.
"Once he started digging, it was impossible to stop," she said about the project started in 1995. "I had a lot of arguments with him, but he became obsessed with his plan. "
A training builder, Levon would work for 18 hours a day – stopping only to take a nap then rushing to the cave, confident that he was being guided" by the sky ". [19659006] "He never drew up any plans and told us that he saw in his dreams what he should do next," his widow told AFP. [19659002] For more than two decades, he has dug the space of 280 square meters strata of volcanic rocks – using only hand tools
"My primary childhood memory is the hammer blow of my father heard the night from the cave, "said his daughter Araksya, aged 44. he had to drill a superficial layer of black basalt, but a few meters deep, Levon reached a softer tufa stone and work
He pulled out 600 trucks of rocks and dirt using only hand buckets.
Levon died in 2008 at the age of 67 from a heart attack after destroying the last wall that separated two tunnels.
'Amazing place & # 39;
A decade after the completion of the project, Tosya also runs a small museum commemorating her husband's work in the village of some 6,000 people.
An eccentric man named William Henry "Burro" Schmidt spent more than three decades digging an 800-meter tunnel to haul gold through a granite mountain in California, starting his work in In the early 1900s, during the state gold rush
In Ethiopia, a man named Aba Defar began carving churches on the mountainside after claiming inspiration divine years of dreams
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Milad, a 29-year-old Iranian tourist, described the maze as "amazing place".
He said that it made him realize "how much a person's spiritual and physical abilities can be".
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