Europe's unluckiest train station gets new lease of life as hotel
Europe’s unluckiest train station gets new lease of life as hotel Stephen Burgen in Barcelona © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Bildarchiv Monheim GmbH/Alamy It earned the nickname “Titanic of the mountains”, but now the monumental and ill-fated train station at Canfranc is to get a new life as a five-star hotel, 51 years after the international rail link across the Pyrenees closed. The story of Canfranc, a village more than 1,000 metres (3,280ft) above sea level on the Franco-Spanish frontier, is one of vainglorious ambition and abject failure, of incompetence a...
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