This is how cultural Heritage burns

Fire destroyed seven buildings partially or totally in the unique, UNESCO historical center of Banská Štiavnica on Saturday. I thought these extensive urban fires are just stories for the history books, and so did the locals whose cultural club, museum, art school, and property have gone up in flames. This is a reportage from those places two days after the first amber sparked from the fire source.

Eluzína, a unique cultural centre turned pitch black.

Smoke still seeping through the surfaces.

Roof beams turned to char.

A view of the burned part of downtown.

Locals trying to save what they can from a burned, water soaked building.

A damaged museum and art school.

Firemen have been called in to inspect sparks and ambers seen by locals in the building where the first flames originated from on Saturday.