Usually there are hundreds and thousands of kilometers between these sights: the Karnak temple and the pyramids are in Egypt, the fairytale castle of Ludwig II towers in the Allgäu sky, and the bronze statue of the Little Mermaid rests on a boulder in Copenhagen harbour.
But in China there is a place where these historical monuments and sculptures are only a few steps away. These are more or less bad reproductions for a theme park in Wuhan.
Sad sadness in central China
Wanguo Park was created around the turn of the millennium and was planned as a day trip destination for the 10 million residents of the city of Wuhan, a metropolis in the Hubei province in central China. But the opening of the historic amusement park with its replicas, mostly greatly reduced in scale, never took place.
For almost 20 years, the temples, pyramids and castles, mostly made of concrete, have been left to their own devices. There are almost no visitors. Only a few people venture onto the site and take pictures of each other with their smartphones in front of the rest of the park. In contrast to the conserving desert climate like in Egypt, the pyramids in Wuhan grow green moss layers due to the sometimes rough and humid climate.
In other regions of China, there are other replicas of famous attractions from around the world that are not left to decay but enjoy great popularity.
These include the Leaning Tower of Pisa on a scale of 1:4 in Shanghai, a copy of the White House and Capitol in Beijing World Park or the one square kilometer replica of the Austrian village of Hallstatt including the church tower, village square, pastel-colored houses and angel statue in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong .
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