Where the streets have your name
- February 20, 2007 8:12 AM
- By Commodities
An enterprising Hungarian village is selling its street names to people seeking to leave their mark.
The village of Ivad is selling names for eight streets for about 100,000 forints ($609 Cdn) per metre. The village promises it will keep the name for 300 years.
But, the transaction requires a certain amount of faith as Hungarian law dictates that roads can only be named after the dead. Town officials say they will honour the contract after the buyer has died.
The mayor of the small northeastern village says he hopes to attract some stars who have yet to be recognized with his town's offer.
"If, for example Barbra Streisand, whom I like a lot, has no street named after her, she may decide to have one in our village," Gabor Ivady, mayor of Ivad, told Reuters.
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