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🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | There's something mesmerizing about precarious things. |
0:10.2 | Things dangling, suspended, on the edge. |
0:15.9 | Things that feel like they should get into gravity at any moment but instead defy it. |
0:23.5 | Deep-rope walkers, mountain goats, the leaning tower of Pisa. |
0:34.1 | But what happens when something that has defied gravity for its whole life? |
0:40.3 | Something so beautifully, unbelievably stable in its instability? |
0:45.7 | Topples. |
0:49.0 | I'm Abby Peralt, and this is Atlas Obscura. |
0:53.3 | A daily celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. |
0:58.4 | Today, we're heading to Tanbiu, Argentina, where a huge rock, |
1:03.6 | teedered on the edge of a hill for thousands of years. |
1:08.0 | We'll find out how La Pietra, Movedice, brought tourism, fame, |
1:13.1 | and what said to be a 100-year curse to the city. |
1:19.5 | After this. |
1:47.8 | The city of Tanbiu is just outside Buenos Aires, in Argentina. |
1:51.9 | It's the birthplace of an internationally famed tennis player, home to a great university, |
1:57.6 | a scenic lake. |
1:59.4 | But this city's identity is a wobbly rock. |
2:05.2 | There are cafes and hotels and institutions across Tanbiu, named after this rock, and it's |
2:11.7 | believed to be central to the city's name itself, stemming from the words for falling |
2:16.8 | rock in Mapuche. |
2:19.2 | But this isn't just any wobbly rock. |
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