[3][4] The 2021 Table Mountain fire partially or completely gutted several historical and/or culturally significant buildings and collections in the University of Cape Town.
[212][215] During World War II, a number of Serbian Orthodox religious sites were damaged or destroyed.
Revenge attacks against Serbian religious sites commenced following the conflict and the return of hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees to their homes.
[221][222] According to the International Center for Transitional Justice this includes 155 destroyed Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries as well as Medieval Monuments in Kosovo, which were inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Many of the art works, libraries and archives contained were lost or pillaged in the time the buildings were abandoned and without owners.
Among them were important buildings as Santa Caterina convent (the first gothic building in Iberian Peninsula) and Sant Francesc convent (gothic too, one of the richest in the country), both in Barcelona, or San Pedro de Arlanza Roman monastery, near Burgos, now ruined.
The
Loon Church
before and after the
2013 Bohol earthquake
. It has since been reconstructed, adhering as faithfully as possible to the original plans and using the original masonry.
Stari Most
, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and monumental Serbian Orthodox
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
(white church in the background) were destroyed by Croat forces in the Bosnian War, but were later rebuilt.
Ruins of the church of
San Sebastiano, Verona
after it was destroyed by aerial bombardment in 1945
This 1890s building in Moscow was demolished in September 2008. The property developer was fined $1,500.
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A photograph of the site of the
National Library of Serbia
, bombed on 6 April 1941 on the order of
Adolf Hitler
himself.
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Around 500.000 volumes and all collections of the library were destroyed in one of the largest book bonfires in European history.
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