Micronation monuments and structures
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This article is intended to document the purpose-specific monuments and structures that have been acquired or erected by a small number of micronations to commemorate those micronations and their creators, facilitate their business activities, serve as the location for their ceremonial or other administrative or operational activities, or function as general tourist attractions.
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Hutt River
The Principality of Hutt River boasts the largest single concentration of substantive, purpose-built monuments and structures of any extant micronation. They include:
- The Secession Monument
- The Chapel of Nain
- The Post Office
- The Gemstone Cairn
- The Prince Leonard monument
- The Biblical Gateway
- The Pyramid of Hutt
Seborga
The Principality of Seborga is unique among micronations in that it consist of a largely intact Italian mediaeval hilltop town.
Bumbunga
The strawberry patch - which is believed to have been the world's largest - was intended as a tourist attraction; press reports at the time noted that Brackstone intended to conduct weddings for nostalgic British-born tourists upon it, during which soil from the bride's home county would be sprinkled onto the ground. The plan went awry when Australian Customs oficials advised Brackstone that Australia's strict quarantine regulations precluded the importation of foreign soil. The strawberry patch subsequently succumbed to the ravages of drought.
Brackstone later constructed a small cairn to commemorate the birth of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales', and Diana, Princess of Wales' firstborn son - Prince William. While Brackstone's daughter, Samantha, is still thought to be in residence at Bumbunga as of 2010, it is not known if the cairn survives.
Molossia
The Republic of Molossia has occupied a modest-sized semi-rural acreage on the outskirts of Dayton, Nevada, since the site was acquired as the primary residence of founder Kevin Baugh's family in 1999.
Baugh has subsequently engaged in an active construction programme to adorn what is in effect the large front garden and backyard surrounding his home, with a number of imaginative and sometimes whimsical micronation-themed monuments and attractions, including:
- Norton Park The Peace Pole
- The Tower of the Winds
- A scale-model electric railway
- A post office
- A customs house
Atlantium
The Empire of Atlantium existed as a largely non-territorial entity for the first twenty six years of its existence, and thus did not possess any purpose-built structures or monuments. This changed on 12 January 2008 when Atlantium established the 0.76 km2 (0.3 miles2) Province of Aurora, in rural New South Wales, as the site of its new, permanent global capital.
As of February 2010, Aurora is the site of a residence and administrative office, and five ancilliary service structures; a commemorative Foundation Monument consisting of three five-metre flagpoles fronting a paved area upon which a commemorative cairn is to be erected was sufficiently complete to enable the Empire's flag to be raised there for the first time on 5 June 2009.
Additionally, several other sites on the prominence which has been designated Capital Hill have been levelled in preparation for the erection of other commemorative monuments and purpose-specific structures.
A list of planned structures was announced by Atlantium's founder George Cruickshank on the List of Micronations public discussion forum on 2 June, 2009.[1] They include:
- The Pyramid of the Dawn
- The Rotunda
- The Domus Stella
- The House of Contemplation
- The Imperial Senate House
- The Imperial Throne Hall
- A post and communications office
