Surreal Photos Of The Ghost Town Outside Disneyland Paris

[k5jm]

So Disneyland Paris has it's own version of Celebration, but it is a ghost town!


http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-val-deurope-the-town-outside-disneyland-paris-2012-7?op=1

Christoph Sillem, a German photographer who lives in Paris, was playing with Google Maps when he noticed a huge circular road around Disneyland Paris.
He made the trek to the park and discovered Val d'Europe, a planned community created by the Walt Disney Company—think the French version of Celebration, Florida.
While construction started on the town in 1987, the residential area is still being built and much of it is completely empty. Val d'Europe consists of five districts, and has a large shopping center and aquarium. Euro Disney spent about $6 billion to build the community, which had about 20,000 residents as of 2005. That number was expected to double.
Says Sillem in La Journal de la Photographie:
It is a Truman Show-like über-replica of a French village from the last century, which seems to have sprung up overnight. While Eurodisney is crowded with people, the streets are empty here. Clean and nearly retouched, it is an odd combination of the familiar and the odd. You feel as though you are in another country that is pretending to be French, even though you are indeed in France itself.
He was kind enough to share some photos of Disney's strange European ghost town with us.

 

[OKW Lover]

Everybody must be at the parks.

 

[mikelan6]

Those homes don't look very "ooh la la" ... they're very "meh."

I wouldn't live there either.

 

[Cherinva]

Wow...

 

[jcb]

I wonder how much they want for the structure in the third photo. It isn't Versailles but it would do.

 

[*NikkiBell*]

Very cool. I hope they do fill them. It's a nice little community.

 

[BriarRosie]

Welcome to Disney's French Gulag. It's like the sucked the soul out of every building and made it a really scary community post-zombie apocalypse.

 

[Tink1987]

Thanks very much for sharing!

 

[Cyrano]

I wonder what time of day the photographer visited as while it is not yet finished when we have driven by there were some folks.

 

[Carrie_Cat]

I wonder what time of day the photographer visited as while it is not yet finished when we have driven by there were some folks.

I'm wondering the same thing....I'm also wondering in which year these were taken as a lot of these are the holiday villages not permanant homes.

 

[Disneyfreak44]

I can't believe no one noticed this until now including me!

 

[DM4Life3]

Spooky!