Belgium Insight Guide
APA Publications Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-258-143-3 (ISBN)
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This 350-page guidebook to Belgium presents the country's highlights in a comprehensive format, illustrated with hundreds of full-colour photographs and 17 maps, and packed with essential travel tips. Key features include: Places: region-by-region gazetteer section, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed local maps; Essay Features: incisive essays on the islands' history, people and culture, from the Belgians' love affair with the cocoa bean to the Surrealist artist Rene Magritte; Photo Features: magazine-style full-colour features on some of the country's most famous sights, including micro breweries and Brussels' architecture; and Travel Tips: practical listings section, including accommodation, restaurants, pubs, bars and cafes, entertainment, nightlife, transport and essential contact addresses and numbers.
Maps: Linguistic Regions, Belgium, Brussels, Around Brussels, Antwerp, Around Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, The Coast & Flanders, Hainaut & The South, Mons, Meuse Valley & Ardennes, Liege, Namur, Belgian Limburg. Introduction & History: "A Bourgeois Paradise?", Decisive Dates, Free Towns and Feudalism, Golden Age of the Burgundians, Squabbling Over a Small Country, The Kingdom of Belgium, Life During Wartime, Postwar Belgium. Essay Features: Capital of Europe, A Babel of Tongues, Festivals and Celebrations, Cycling and Other Sporting Passions. Places: Introduction, Brussels, The Lower City, The Upper City, Cinquantenaire and Louise quarters, The Glass City, Brussels Lace, Window Shopping, Brussels a la Carte, Around Brussels, Waterloo, Antwerp, Around Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Belgium's Coast and the Battlefields of Flanders, Hainaut and the South, The Meuse Valley, The Ardennes, Belgian Limburg. Photo Features: Beer and Brewing, Art Nouveau, Grand-Place, Castles and Chateaux. Information Panels: Civic Splendour, Trade & Pilgrim Routes, Emperor Charles V, The Belgian Congo, Belgium Today, Cartoon Culture, Comic Museum, The Marolles, Bars and Cafes, Rubens, Georges Simenon, Spa Water. Travel Tips Highlights: Getting Acquainted, Planning the Trip, Practical Tips, Getting Around, Where to Stay, Where to Eat, Culture, Nightlife, Festivals, Sports, Shopping, For Children, Language, Further Reading.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.7.2005 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Insight Guides |
| Zusatzinfo | full colour photographs throughout |
| Verlagsort | Singapore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 220 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reiseführer ► Europa ► Belgien |
| ISBN-10 | 981-258-143-X / 981258143X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-981-258-143-3 / 9789812581433 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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