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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover how the city stood up against the evils of the slave trade, admire its stunning Art Deco façades, unearthbeautiful stained-glass windows by an accomplished yet little-known female artist, take to the windy coastal pathsjust out of town and peek into caves where smugglers once hid their loot, visit the humble cottage of an Americanpresident, uncover the mysteries of Bronze Age burial grounds and Stone Age forts, squeeze down a secretunderground tunnel or take a boat ride to see the city's seal colony, visit the place where Marconi sent his firstwireless signal across the waves, go to a cinema shaped like a ship.Small, yet bursting with history and mystery, Belfast, far from the crowds and the usual clichés, is a reserve of well-concealed treasures that only reveal themselves to those who know how to wander off the beaten track, whetherresidents or visitors.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A horse's tomb that has become a place of pilgrimage, a tree held up by a pillar in the garden of a Sufi convent that would herald the end of the world if it fell down, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's glass, a carpet that predicts the end of the Ottoman empire, fragments from the Black Stone of Mecca, the covering of a fountain from Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, a church under the protection of Muhammad, a synagogue that was a landmark for Ashkenazi Jews, a garment worn by the Prophet that was inadvertently ironed, a handful of hot ash that saved the Ottoman empire .…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mâché, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk .Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, Mexico City is filled with hidden treasures revealed only to the residents and visitors who leave the beaten path.An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well or who would like to discover its many other facets.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The packed audiences of darkened cinema rooms are no more. People are gradually drifting backhome to lounge in front of a multitude of online platforms, far less expensive than a trip to thepicture palace. Habits have changed. the cinema is no longer a world of magic.Movie theatres have lost their splendour, often pushed into the suburbs and choked left and right byfast-food chains as if they were ashamed to exist at all.However, some of this fabulous heritage dedicated to the stuff of dreams which cinemas once werestill exists, especially in France. This is one of the few countries left where theatres are still beingbuilt, sometimes with audacious architecture. Also, France is a place where their demise is ferventlydenied.Sometimes, on a street corner, a forgotten but flamboyant façade recalls past glories. It's there toremind everyone that cinema is immortal.Simon Edelstein, whether in search of decaying or completely abandoned historic cinemas, orexploring lovingly restored or spectacular contemporary buildings, has scoured the roads of Francefor over 10 years, in cities and countryside, to seek out this exceptional heritage.…