Injured or ill persons were treated in the first aid room. The toilet cubicles had no doors and the showers units were communal. You will see machinery for air filtration and electricity supplies, armoured door and water wells. The Folimanka shelter with a capacity of 1.300 people is a labyrinth of tunnels with various rooms.

This adds up to far less than the number of people that live in Prague. * The metrotunnels can hold 332,000 people * 768 permanent shelters can hold 150,000 people. The fallout shelters were built to protect people in the event of an nuclear explosion, radiation and radioactive dust but only for three days. They could be turned into shops, hydroponic farms, garages, warehouses, film studios, clubs, museums and galleries The City of Prague has maintained the fallout shelters up to today but is now reconsidering their use. The aim was to save them from a nuclear attack from the West. These bunkers were not designed to shelter people for years. When the metro network was built in 1970s heavy steel doors were included so that the network could be hermetically closed.

Deep beneath Prague there are about 800 fallout shelters with their own electricity, water and ventilation systems.

Fallout shelters near me