Czechoslovakia’s 1970 s plan for a 410 kilometres passage to the Adriatic exposes what takes place when landlocked nations assume really, really large.
Occasionally the most interesting maps are the ones that never ever ended up being reality. In Prague’s archives, you can still find blueprints for one of the most adventurous infrastructure projects never ever developed: a 410 -kilometer train tunnel boring from České Budějovice through Austrian area to emerge at a fabricated island in the Adriatic Sea.