Drone footage reveals hundreds of abandoned Turkish chateaux. Hundreds of chateaux have been abandoned at the Burj Al Babas luxury housing development in central Turkey, after its developer filed for bankruptcy, as shown in this drone footage.
Approximately halfway between Turkey’s largest city Istanbul and its capital Ankara, the Burj Al Babas development will contain 732 identical mini chateaux when, or if, it completes. Begun in 2014, the hundreds of houses have been left in various states of completion since the dramatic collapse of the Turkish economy led to developer Sarot Group to file for bankruptcy in November. The complex has debts of $27 million, reports Bloomberg.
Each of the houses are identical, with the developer controlling the external appearance and buyers allowed to customize the internal layout. The houses, which are being built in the style of mini French chateaux, are all three storys tall with a round corner turret and a square tower above their entrances. They are closely arranged on 324-square-metre plots on a rural site near the town of Mudurnu, as can be seen in the footage above.
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