THE OLD GASOMETERS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PULA
Published on HivePostify by @borjan · Fri May 22 2026
There are these old gasometers, I regurarely see on my drives from the city back home, becouse their tops are visible from the bypass road I usually take.
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One morning in April last year, I left the main bypass road and took the narrow one that leads to the gasometers. It was time to explore a bit that quite mundane but also kinda mysterious area I never thoroughly explored through the lens of my camera.
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The gasometers and the nearby abandoned buildings from the Austro-Hungarian period of the city were built and ready to use in 1912.
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The works started four years earlier, in 1908.
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It was a period of rapid growth of the city due to its strategic importance in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and a time of global technological advancements, so quite a few big infrastructural projects were realized in those years.
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Nowadays, the old gasworks complex is surrounded by small agricultural fields.
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When I peeked through a broken window of one of its abandoned buildings ...
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... I saw a room filled with small wooden crates used in harvest time.
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I love exploring these quiet, disheveled environments.
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The main attraction here is the gasometers, of course.
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They are huge, rusty, and kinda cool.
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Definitely different from anything around them.
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Some details of this old industrial stuff feel quite decorative today.
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This intricate lace-like structure looks amazing when separated from the rest through the lens of the camera.
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Here you can see the thing that was once showing the pressure inside the tank. Or at least, that's what I think this thing was. It's another cool detail, that's for sure.
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That same thing on the second gasometer looks much better, more sophisticated. The first one looks kinda improvised in comparison.
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This one is probably the original. It looks stylistically more in line with the rest of the structure.
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Here you can see a bunch of flowers, for a change.
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Some daffodils ...
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... were growing on the lawn near the rusty gasometers.
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I don't remember seeing many flowers that day.
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The most numerous ones ...
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... were these grape hyacinths.
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They appear very early in spring here in my area.
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The scientific name of the species is Muscari neglectum. Do you know why I wrote the scientific name here? Well, I wrote it just becouse ...
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