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A 'love hotel' where one can say a prayer, a stretch of the Senne reconstituted in Saint-Gery, a farm in the centre of the city, a Freemasonic reading of the Brussels Park, the amazing physiognomic fountain of Magritte, the place where the Tsar of Russia vomited at the park of Brussels in 1717, the former rotunda of Panorama parking, a tribute to the soldier pigeon, from speleology to The National Basilica of the Sacred Heart, a panoramic swimming pool, a scandalous pavilion in the park Cinquantenaire, a huge vegetable garden in Uccle, a nineteenth-century artist's studio in Schaerbeek, a campsite in the heart of the city, a garden forgotten in the Forest ... For those who can observe, push the doors and exit beaten tracks, Brussels is full of curiosities and surprising details that will amaze its inhabitants as well as its visitors who thought they knew it well.  

Allow Secret Tokyo guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Tokyo travel guide and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing borough. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.   The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in its 2nd edition, Secret Tokyo features 20+ new secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Tokyo:A building that acts as a giant firewall, a secret city centre canyon, a statue that cures warts, ultra-modern designer toilets, an extraordinary tree that helps you quit smoking, an electronic sunflower, a spectacular modern temple hidden in the heart of Shinjuku, a street that gives Tokyo taxi drivers nightmares, a massive building that looks like a warship, forgotten rivers ...   Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Tokyo swings between modernity and tradition, preservation of its h…

Let Secret Seville guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Seville guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city.   Featuring over 170 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Seville guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall of Seville Town Hall and how can you track down the railway from the Ibero-American Expo of 1929? Where might you find the legacy of Christopher Columbus’ son, a medieval Jewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops, forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats, Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestiges of the Andalusian pavilions from the ’29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example of the Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese and Japanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pilla…

Let Secret Glasgow guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Glasgow guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.   The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. In its 1st edition, Secret Glasgow features 150 secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Glasgow :A beautiful garden inside a hospital, a staircase once celebrated by Einstein, the remains of a workhouse and a Roman wall, a lost burn and a reminder of the Spanish Civil War, a stranded column in the Clyde and a Celtic gravestone, a derelict railway platform, a stone that flew over the Irish Sea, the burial place of a Scot who became an American hero and mysterious etchings on a cathedral wall ...   Glasgow is full of hidden treasures that many residents go past without realising their significa…

Let Secret Geneva guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Geneva guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.   The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's third edition, Secret Geneva features 100 secret and unusual locations. Head off to discover hidden tunnels and a bomb shelter beneath the Old City, follow a secret passage open once a year, admire the cathedral's Orpheus capital, pray at Calvin's fake grave, look for the plaque that compares the pope with the Antichrist, visit the secret gardens of the Carouge district, discover why the national monument represents two Savoyard women, learn where Frankenstein was created, sleep in Professor Calculus' room, and more.   Far from the usual crowds and cliches, Geneva still keeps treasure…

Let Secret Rome guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Rome guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious travellers alike.   The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's 8th edition, Secret Rome features 140+ secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Rome:Visit places closed to the publicAdmire exceptional works of art away from the tourist circuitListen to a concert in a magnificent hidden oratoryHave your dog or car blessedPuzzle over a rare catoptric meridian or a wonderful anamorphic frescoDiscover the remarkable motorized RubensEnter into the secrets of the VaticanRediscover a lost Bernini masterpieceSay a prayer before an image of the Holy Face of Jesus Organize a dinner for two in a private palace?Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Rome is still a reserve …

Let Secret Madrid guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Madrid guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this fascinating city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Once you get away from the crowds and the usual clichés, Madrid has many hidden treasures just waiting to be found by locals and visitors who are keen to get off the beaten track. A must-have guide for those who thought they knew all about Madrid, or those who would like to discover another side to the city.   Get your pet blessed; visit an underground mine in the centre of Madrid; watch the annual liquefaction of Saint Pantaleon's blood; meet the only Catholic exorcist in Spain; find out how the king made his medicine using alchemy; experience the smell of apples that comes once a year off the well-preserved body of Mariana de Jésus, who died in the 17th century; visit an underground art gallery;…

Let Secret Prague guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Prague guide book and let local expert Martin Stejskal, share these well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.   The places included in this guide are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Inside Secret Prague:A totally overlooked Art Nouveau masterpiece, secrets of the castle alchemists, the message in the hidden palindrome on Charles Bridge, the Kabbalistic mysteries of the Jewish ghetto, a thief ’s shrivelled forearm hanging in a church, a statue revealing its intestines, the largest wind tunnel in the Czech Republic, a fragment of the Great Pyramid of Cheops in a pet cemetery, a clock that runs backwards, a house/museum painted blue to meet the needs of the partially blind musician owner …Unmissable for lovers of architecture, from Baroque to Art Nouveau via Cub…

A replica of the Pantheon in Rome for Japanese weddings, a hydrocephalic head, the secret symbolism of the Fountain of the Lions in the Alhambra and the cabala symbolism of the Alhambra, a macabre joke, a spectacular natural history museum from the nineteenth century, a secret library, a curious watch to celebrate the birth of the Prophet Mohammed, a water chess championship, an erotic chapel, the fifth Gospel in the Sacromonte, the subterranean route of the river which crosses the center of the city . Far from the masses and the usual cliches, Granada continues to keep hidden treasures which it only reveals to residents and travelers who wish to go off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who think they know Granada well or for those who wish to discover another side to the city.