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Real Fake Bridges

99% Invisible

CHAPTER

The Dream of a European Currency

Some countries like germany recovered fairly quickly, but other countries, like spain and greece did not. And there is a good argument that the uro itself made them worse off. A designer in the netherlands convinced a town called spakanisa to build tiny replicas of the fake bridges on the euro notes. But i think maybe, maybe they should have kept those original euro sins, the ones with the pictures of real bridges. They cross real bridges to real countries.

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