What international airport in Spain is abandoned?

AN AIRPORT in Spain has been left abandoned for years - despite costing more than £1billion to built. Ciudad Real Airport opened in 2008 only for it to close three years later. The airport was originally meant to be an alternative to Madrid Barajas Airport, with a high-speed train station on the Madrid-Seville line.



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Demand waned, for both travel and infrastructure investment, leaving some grandiose construction projects abandoned. This was the case for Ciudad Real airport in Spain which reportedly cost €1 billion to construct.

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Commercial aviation was about to enter a different age, and environmental concerns led to the cancellation of the grand plan for the Everglades Jetport after only one runway had been built. Now, that lone runway functions both as a training ground and a nostalgic reminder of a dream that never materialized.

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The international airport was built on former farmland, according to its website. When the Savannah airport needed to expand during World War II, the land included a burial site belonging to the Dotson family, according to the airport's website. It was estimated to have had about 100 graves, including those of slaves.

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By 2012, the airport's financial difficulties forced the management company to file for bankruptcy, after accumulating more than €300 million of debt, eventually going into receivership. By 13 April 2012, all airport operations were shut down, and would remain so for more than 7 years.

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The medieval fortress town of Granadilla is a ghost town. Visitors can peek into empty rooms, wander along its walled-in streets and view the town from atop its castle. But no one lives there. Not since all the residents were kicked out in the 1960s.

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A great example of an abandoned airport is in Berlin: Tempelhof Airport. A place with an awful lot of history! It was built by the Nazis during the First and Second World Wars, but they never used it as an airport. Nowadays, it is used as an event space and you will also find the largest refugee camp in Germany.

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Monaco, San Marino, Andorra, Liechtenstein and the Vatican are States without airports.

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Madrid–Cuatro Vientos Airport, also known as Cuatro Vientos Airport, is the oldest airport in Spain, established in 1911 and one of the three civil airports of Madrid along with Madrid–Barajas and Torrejón Air Base. The airport is located 8 km southwest of the city centre.

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Cañada informal Here, between the municipal areas of Madrid, Rivas, Coslada and San Fernando, Europe's largest slum has attached itself to the historical Cañada Real Galiana.

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Abandoned villages are ghost towns in Spain with empty properties as a result of rural depopulation. There are more than 3.000 abandoned villages in Spain, most of them in the northern region (Galicia, Asturias and Castile and León), but also in Andalusia, Aragon and Catalonia.

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