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Thalia Oosthuizen

“632 Years To Build”: 15 Most Stubborn Structures In History

One cathedral took 632 years. Another is still unfinished after four decades. These aren't construction delays, they're construction legends.

Some buildings demand decades of perseverance, and a select, incredible few take hundreds of years of construction.

They’re so ambitious, so difficult, and so entangled with history that they far outlive the people who first imagined them.

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