Incredible Images Show How Huge Boulders Demolished 300-Year-Old Italian House
Nowhere is the power of nature more starkly evident than in the wide gouge left in the mountain by a few enormous boulders in Italy.
Those boulders ended up colliding with a 300-year-old farmhouse on their way down the mountain, knocking the attached barn apart like matchsticks.
The property shown in the video is The Freisingerhof, which is owned by the Servite order of the Catholic church. No one was hurt in the landslide, which was reportedly caused by a rock tower in the cliff face dissolving. The area has been evacuated of residents, as geologists fear there is still the risk of further rock falls.
Philipp von Hohenbühel, who runs the estate, told South Tirol News that the slide had caused millions in damages.
One can easily see the path cut through the mountain by the approximately 4000 cubic meters of rock.
Closer up, with trees for scale. The slide was obviously gigantic.
Another huge boulder came up just short of destroying another wing of the house. Again, obvious that it had the size to demolish everything in its path.
Here's the entire video of the wreckage, shot via drone: