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Infrastructure 09 Aug 2023
The inside story of Ciudad Real: Europe’s most disastrous airport
Ciudad Real International was supposed to be a masterstroke of strategic planning. Designed as an overflow airport for Madrid's Barajas International, it closed just four years after opening and was sold for just 0.001 percent of its construction cost. Bird protection zones, lack of infrastructure and sheer bad luck all combined to make this one of Spain's most disastrous infrastructure projects of all time.
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