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Why Sweden is relocating an entire town

BBC's The Travel Show
Features correspondent
Buildings too important to demolish are being uprooted whole

A gateway to Sweden’s picturesque Lapland region, the city of Kiruna is on the verge of sinking – and now the entire town is being uprooted and moved down the road.

Additional footage: Liselotte Wajstedt

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