City at the bottom of a lake

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Bulgaria, in search of tourism dollars (complicated by its seriously unsexy name, and the ex-soviet thing), is building a city at the bottom of a lake.

Well, actually, digging up an old, old town which is now at the bottom of a lake. Seuthopolis, was discovered in 1948, but in 1954 a dam broke an flooded the region, making the lake it now sits in the middle of. The plan is to build a giant circular dike, and then use the site as a tourist attraction. Impressive, but it will be tough to make this more than a one-trick-pony. There better be some actually impressive stuff in the town..

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