Travel The Village China Rebuilt: The Story of Europe’s Most Photographed Settlement
Some cities have inspired films, places immortalized in songs, and landscapes captured on the canvases of history’s greatest painters. Yet very few places have left such a profound impression that someone chose to recreate them almost stone for stone, thousands of miles from their original home. That is precisely what happened to Hallstatt, the tiny Austrian village nestled between the steep slopes of the Alps and the tranquil waters of the lake that bears its name.