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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.  

Let Secret Potsdam guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Potsdam guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this 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.   A piece of the summit of Kilimanjaro at the New Palace, a swasticak in Sanssouci Park, a remnant of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the starry ceiling of a villa alluding to the Masonic setting of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, a spectacular Expressionist tomb, a stone that sings in the heart of the city, a copy of the music pavilion of one of King Louis XV's mistresses, a luminous art installation under a bridge, a carved monkey from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, chimneys replicating those at Hampton Court in London, the esoteric passions of Emperor Frederick William II, a column to commemorate the deat of a parrot…

Let Secret Lisbon guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Lisbon travel 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. The most beautiful hidden tiles of the city, the head of the serial killer Lisbon preserved in formalin, the Kabbalistic principles of the south portal of the Jeronimos Monastery or the theory of the fifth Portuguese empire of which we find so many traces in the geography of the city, charming forgotten dead ends, the outstanding panoptic architecture of a former hospital, the impressive wax masks from the Dermatology Museum, a secret passage at the hotel Avenida Palace, the mysterious abbey below Palacio Foz, the reason why the coat of arms of Portugal is inclined at 17 degrees on the facade…

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 Vienna guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.   Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Vienna guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 150 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Vienna guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.   A magnificent private palace that can be visited by reservation, a crocodile mummy in a private library, a chocolate house, an alchemical ceiling in Schönbrunn, one of the most beautiful pharmacies in the world, an exceptional Art Nouveau church , the tomb of a fish that would have converted to Judaism, a jazz museum in public toilets, a public dump that can be visited like a museum, the oldest organ in Vienna hidden behind a painting, an empress dressed as a nun, the mystery of the symbol 05, a masculine sex discreetly sculpted on the cathedral of Vienna, a surprising private museum of billiards, an …

Let Secret Istanbul guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Istanbul travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of a fascinating 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. Secret Istanbul features 130 new secret and unusual locations.   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 handfu…

Let Secret Barcelona guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Barcelona 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 secrets of Gaud and the Sagrada Familia, a terrific tour of small trains hidden under the main station, a mysterious hand, a fascinating amphitheatre of dissection, an unsuspected air-raid shelter, a kiss of death, a museum tucked away in the back of a shop, a magic talisman on a street sign, secret Mason symbols, the emblem of FC Barcelona in Santa Mar a del Mar... During the day and night, Barcelona reveals its secrets only to locals and travelers seeking to get off the beaten path. To that end, it is key to know where to go.   An essential guide for those who think they know Barcelona well or for those looking to discover the hidden side of the city. Let Secret Barcelona guide you aro…

Let Secret Paris guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Paris guide book, now in its 8th edition. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city.   Featuring over 300 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Paris guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Find winemaking firefightersSee a tree in a churchExplore an atomic bomb shelter under Gare de l'EstMeet the patron saint of motoristsUncover royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyardEnjoy a pre-historic merry-go-roundMarvel at a sundial designed by DaliDiscover bullet holes at the minstry and war-wounded palm treesFor those who thought they knew Paris well, the city is still teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Paris or would like to discover the other face of the city.   Secret London - An un…

Let Secret Singapore guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Singapore guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city.   Featuring 160 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Singapore guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Spot a lighthouse on the top of a 25-storey apartment blockSee unique rocky area that looks like Guilin in ChinaDiscover the remains of a Shinto shrine built in the jungle by prisoners of warFind the houses from the Ming and Qing periods donated by Jackie ChanWitness the bottoms of soya-sauce bottles used to decorate the Sultan MosqueSee the 'leaning tower' of SingaporeExplore the last remaining stretch of natural beachSpot the beautiful modernist door of a former biscuit factoryUncover a hidden kampong (rural village) dwarfed by residential towersMarvel at the splendidly preserved old Changi prison g…