Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Head off to explore the filming location of 12 Monkeys, Michael Jackson’s hometown turned ghost town, Berlin’s 1936 Olympic Village, deconsecrated churches, forgotten castles, deserted train stations, prisons and mental asylums, a cemetery of rusted locomotives, abandoned steel factories, phantom metro stations, and more. For 10 years, Sylvain Margaine has traveled the world in search of these…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Escape from the crowds of tourists to visit little-known artistic masterpieces, visit superb private gardens that even the Florentines don't know about, head off to hunt for the 34 plaques displaying quotes from the «Divine Comedy», visit a church in a prison, learn how Florence became the centre of hermetism during the Renaissance and where you can still find traces of it today, fill up your…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 784 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 351) Аннотация: Mingle with the most impressive handlebar moustaches in the country, pay your respects at the dog cemetery in Hyde Park, visit a masonic temple, take trapeze lessons in a former power station, pray in a floating church, sail on a disused reservoir, discover the stone from which Arthur drew Excalibur, admire the sacred penis of a pharaoh, have a game on the City's last bowling green, examine a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Have your favourite pet blessed, visit an underground mine in the centre of Madrid, see the astounding liquefaction of the blood of Saint Pantaleon once a year, meet Spain's only Catholic exorcist, find out how the king had his medicine made using alchemy, smell the apple odour that wafts once a year from the still-intact body of Mariana de Jesus who died in the 17'th century, visit an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A statue of pregnant Virgin Mary, an astronomical observatory in a former nuclear missile silo, a hotel room in a tree or a gipsy caravan, primitive Provençal artists, the mark of Christ’s knee, a fountain that flows with wine, a caiman dedicated to the Virgin Mary, a church in a theatre, an erotic medieval bas relief, a countess who returned to life, a Provençal Villa Medicis, a false…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A “love hotel” where you can say a prayer, a reconstituted section of the Senne river at Saint-Géry, an extraordinary private museum devoted to plastic, a farm with sheep, goats, and turkeys at place de l’Yser, Masonic secrets in the Parc de Bruxelles, a hotel overlooking the Grand-Place, a surrealistic trip in a lift, a homage to the military pigeon, potholing at Koekelberg basilica, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A game of pétanque played with square boules, an astonishing aerial well, stained-plastic windows, a marble bench built in memory of the Queen of England’s haemophiliac son, the instruments of the Passion of Christ, a cannon that fires cherry stones, a good-luck pig, a mysterious pyramid, a monument to secret agents, an entire village that «moved house», a gas mask for horses, a statue…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 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 districr, discover xhy the national monument represents two Savoyard women, learn where Frankenstein was…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A priest who blesses animals, wine producing firement, a tree in a church, an inverted phallus at a famous entrance, an atomic bomb shelter under the Gare de l’Est, a real Breton lighthouse near Montparnasse, unsuspected traces of former brothels, a patron saint of motorists, royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard, the presentation of Christ’s crown of thorns, a prehistoric…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 610 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 317) Аннотация: The oak tree where Pinocchio hanged himself, a fifteenth-century stained glass window with an image of Mussolini, a forgotten statue by Leonardo da Vinci, a luxury hotel that is now a public lavatory, a 17th-century milk distributor, a wine-drinking frog, a unique astronomical phenomenon, a staircase in Siena bearing St. Catherine’s teeth marks, a whale in Lucca, an authentic phial of Christ’s…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Escaping the mass market to find unusual hotels, bed and breakfast properties as well as holiday lets, this guide lists UK and Ireland properties providing value-for-money memories that will last long after the bill has been paid. Selected from the award-winning online guide, this selection of properties offers unusual and unique accomodation choices for all budgets, from £25 for singles to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Discover the historic location of Rembrandt's famous «Night Watch», the origin of the invention of cognac; homage to prostitutes; decypher facade stones; make love quite legally in the open air ; visit magnificent interior courtyards; ski in the heart of the town, or become an adept of «boat-in» — the Amsterdam version of drive-in — and eat a pizza in your own boat. Away from the crowds and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 319) Аннотация: Visit palaces closed to the public, admire exceptional works of art away from the tourist circuit, listen to a concert in a magnificent hidden oratory, have your dog or car blessed, observe the miraculous liquefaction of the blood of Saint Pantaleon, puzzle over a rare catoptric meridian or a wonderful anamorphic fresco, discover the remarkable motorised Rubens, enter into the secrets of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Discover the secrets of St. Mark’s Basilica with not a tourist in sight, finally crack the mystery of the pillars around the Doge’s Palace, take a trip on the only underground canal in Venice in search of the alchemical sculpture of the winged horse, lunch at a restaurant tucked away in a lagoon fisherman’s house, track down Teriaca, that miracle potion brewed in Venice from time immemorial,…
Скачать книгу (размер 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 190) Аннотация: Dine in the home of a perfect stranger, enjoy your meal on an extraordinary, little-known terrace looking out on the Parc de Monceau, eat lunch at a restaurant that’s totally invisible from the street, have a drink at a bar next to a man taking a shower in a glass box, join a band of artistic squatters for an afternoon barbecue, visit a Royalist bar, catch up with a moveable feast, get unbeatable…
Скачать книгу (размер 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 175) Аннотация: Observe the stars from the top of the Sorbonne, see a film in a private flat, spend an astonishing night in the company of transsexuals, watch lawyers match wits in an oratory debating contest, go for a swim in the nude, crash celebrity parties, listen to a rock group in a squat, cross Paris in a Zodiac boat, meet Master Jodorowsky in person, discover the Baha’i faith and or theosophy, buckle…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Have your hair cut on the night of the full moon, take a siesta while shopping, make a cast of your foot, top a birthday cake with your own photo, issue your own stamps, take pictures of your aura, visit a designer at home, join an art gallery open 24/24, buy shoes in a theatre, offer your cat or dog a massage or special cookies, relax in a flotation chamber, try out extraordinary Japanese…