Jonglez publishing aug 2024 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Stockholm travel guidebook, filled with well-hidden treasures. Ideal for locals and curious travellers alike, the book features more than 140 secret and unusual locations.Take a break in a parish library with a time-warp interior and a unique collection of detective novels, discover the functioning dragon fountain in the foyer of an opulent 1930s cinema turned storage facility, visit the bizarre 1921 archaeologist's grave, built in the style of stone-age megalith tombs, discover the gigantic metal eye on the back of the brutalist Swedish Film Institute that pokes fun at the Swedish military in the neighbouring building. Find the mysterious medieval plaque hidden in an Old Town stairway, grab a bite at the French bakery on the ground floor of a socialist utopian-functionalist communal housing project, where a food lift sends croissants and onion soup to the apartments above. Get off the metro at a station with grotesque sculptures and a unique ecosystem featuring tiny spiders and a previously unknown fungus.There's all this and more in an essential travel guide for those who think they know the Swedish capital well, or for those who want to discover its concealed gems.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well, or who would like to discover its hidden face.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A 'love hotel' where one can say a prayer, a stretch of theSenne reconstituted in Saint-Géry, a farm in the centre ofthe city, a Freemasonic reading of the Brussels Park, theamazing physiognomical fountain of Magritte, the placewhere the Tsar of Russia vomited at the park of Brussels in1717, the former rotunda of Panorama parking, a tributeto the soldier pigeon, from speleology to The NationalBasilica of the Sacred Heart, a panoramic swimming pool,a scandalous pavilion in the park Cinquantenaire, a hugevegetable garden in Uccle, a 19th century artist's studio inSchaerbeek, a campsite in the heart of the city, a gardenforgotten in the Forest .For those who can observe, push the doors and exit beatentracks, Brussels is full of curiosities and surprising detailsthat will amaze its inhabitants as well as its visitors whothought they knew it well.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Descend into a Cold War bunker, piece together guerrilla mosaics, unearth the most glorious of grottoes, genuflect before the wooden robot overlord, sniff out dogs more dazzling than Greyfriars Bobby, peruse a 17th-century list of ladies of pleasure, get water-boarded in a prototype Jacuzzi, travel to the Wild West of Morningside, discover hidden gardens and clandestine art that not even the neighbours know about.Far from the tourist traps and the crowded landmarks, you may have thought Edinburgh had no more to reveal, but the city still keeps many treasures hidden away in the most unexpected of places.An indispensable street and armchair guide for those who thought they knew Edinburgh well or who would like to explore the curiosities of this most secretive of cities.…