Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Provence guide book, now in its 3rd edition, and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing region. 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.

Secret Provence features 230 secret and unusual locations. Discover a statue of a pregnant Virgin Mary, an astronomical observatory in a former nuclear missile silo, a hotel room in a tree or a gypsy caravan, primitive Provencal 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 Provencal Villa Medicis, a false volcano at La Roquebrussane, a ‘sheep bridge’ at Arles, a rain-making saint, an alchemist’s garden, a magic palindrome at Oppede.

Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, Provence offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Provence well or would like to discover the other face of the region.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Florence guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and secret places of this amazing city. Featuring over 150 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Florence guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

Inside Secret Florence guide:

• 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
• Escape from the crowds of tourists to visit little-known artistic masterpieces
• Head off to hunt for the 34 plaques displaying quotes from the “Divine Comedy”
• Fill up your tank at a vintage service station
• Have your children count the number of bees sculpted on the monument to the glory of Ferdinand I
• Look for the last wine distributors of the Renaissance
• Notice the minuscule windows designed to let children look out quietly onto the street
• Visit superb private gardens that even the Florentines don’t know about
• Learn how the purple colour of the Fiorentina football team is connected to the pee of a Florentine crusader in Palestine ?

Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Florence offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Florence well or would like to discover the other face of the city.

The definitive insider’s guide to Florence.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating London guide book. Let our local expert Ellie Seymour show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 190 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Brighton guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

• Discover the city’s smallest art gallery in a phone box
• Visit a hidden city orchard
• Enjoy Brighton’s only waterfall
• Explore the city’s most beautiful hidden street
• Experience a seafront sauna spa
• Find a forgotten railway line in the sea
• Visit a hidden pet cemetery
• Marvel at a long-forgotten mural
• Discover a Thai restaurant at the back of a supermarket
• Tap the nose of a gargoyle and make a wish
• Enter an Earthship
• Play glow-in-the-dark miniature golf with dinosaurs

Away from the cliched seaside sights, Brighton is a city full of alternative things to discover for those who like to dig beneath the surface.  Secret Brighton – An Unusual Guide  is the perfect compact gift-worthy companion for locals, curious visitors and armchair travellers, alike.

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 of the Rossio station…

?Far from the usual crowds and cliches, Lisbon still keeps well-hidden treasures that it reveals only to the inhabitants and the travellers who like to think outside the box.

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 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
• Puzzle over a rare catoptric meridian or a wonderful anamorphic fresco
• Discover the remarkable motorized Rubens
• Enter into the secrets of the Vatican
• Rediscover a lost Bernini masterpiece
• Say 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 of well-concealed treasures only revealed to those who know how to wander off the beaten track, whether residents or visitors. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Rome well, or who would like to discover the hidden face of the city.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Paris guide book, now in its 8^th 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 firefighters
• See a tree in a church
• Explore an atomic bomb shelter under Gare de l’Est
• Meet the patron saint of motorists
• Uncover royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard
• Enjoy a pre-historic merry-go-round
• Marvel at a sundial designed by Dali
• Discover bullet holes at the minstry and war-wounded palm trees

For 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 unusual guide  is the original and still the best of all the many alternative Paris guides: accept no imitation. Author and Parisian, Thomas Jonglez, has prowled the city streets, seeking out the hidden, eccentric and overlooked.

Welcome to this compendium of interesting, unexpected and downright bizarre geographical anomalies that are guaranteed to delight and inspire. The world is full of little-known facts that have sometimes been a source of diplomatic or military struggle. Many still exist under the radar now to be revealed by this entertaining treasure trove.

Where else can you discover:

• Countries that do not really exist
• A UK hotel room which became Yugoslavian for one day only
• An island which is Spanish for six months of the year and French for the other six
• A city which is officially constituted by one single high-rise (14 floor) building
• The world’s first and only railway that belonged to one country and ran across another
• A hotel room whose bedroom is in France and whose bathroom is in Switzerland
• Bir Tawil which is one of the very few territories on earth not claimed by any country
• The only place in the world where you can find so-called counter-enclaves where in a 20-minute walk around the town you can cross an international border at least 50 times at 50 different points

The world is full of wonderful and strange geographical irregularities. Turn to the Atlas of Geographical Curiosities to uncover more little known but important facts.