See Within Enormous Former Railway Station That’s Now a Luxurious Lodge

Canfranc Estación, the Royal Hideaway Hotel, reopened its doors after 50 years of decay.

Canfranc Estación, located in the Pyrenees mountains in Aragon, Spain, was inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII in 1928 with French President Gaston Doumergue in attendance.

Passengers could travel by means of Zaragoza and Madrid in Spain to Lisbon, Portugal as effectively as France. 

Even so, the vacation choices were not available for extensive as Franco shut the border in 1936 and ordered the rail tunnel to be shuttered, for each the Money Periods. 

It reopened five decades afterwards but the line was not well used and a derailment on the French side shut it permanently.