Ever since mankind has tackled major projects, it has regularly failed. For example the “Fossa Carolina” under Charlemagne, a futile canal digging between the river systems of the Danube and the Rhine. Or the largest galleon in Sweden at the time Wasawhich succumbed to design flaws in 1628 after only one kilometer in the Baltic Sea. But sometimes the failure also turns positive. The Wasa has long since had its own museum in Stockholm and the insane sums of money that Bavaria’s King Ludwig II once threw out for his fairy tale castles has meanwhile been brought in countless times by tourism.
There is also a development for the better at the Canfranc border station. It was built almost 100 years ago high up in the Pyrenees as one of the largest train stations in Europe. The magnificent facade measures 240 meters, grandeur on the route between Zaragoza in Spain and Pau in France. Opened in 1928, but hardly any travelers followed, instead economic crisis, civil war in Spain, World War II. The Nazis smuggled looted gold through Canfranc, persecuted Jews fled through the place, after the war Hitler’s henchmen. There has been no French train to Canfranc since 1970. Travelers have long preferred to take the plane, goods roll across the road. “Titanic the mountain “is called the rotting plant.
But now the place should be saved and revitalized. The historic building will be converted into a hotel, a railway museum and shops will be built. Now Tom Cruise just has to come and shoot a film here or Toni Garrn take a little Instagram family vacation – Canfranc might already have to think about overtourism.
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