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ORIENTATION AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION OF BRUSSEL Most major attractions are clustered around Grand Place, between the Bourse (Stock Market) to the west and the Parc de Bruxelles to the …
AMBOISE MAP Amboise (pop. 11,000) is guarded by the parapets of the 15th-century chateau that six security-minded French kings called home. In the Logis de Roi, the main part …
PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK A green cushion among England’s industrial giants of Manchester, Sheffield, and Nottingham, Britain’s first national park sprawls across 1400sq. km of rolling hills and windswept …
ENTERTAINMENT PARIS Paris’s cabarets, cinemas, theaters, and concert halls can satisfy all tastes and desires. The bibles of Parisian entertainment, the weekly Pariscope and the Officiel des Spectacles (both …
ENGLAND KENSINGTON Five Sumner Place Hotel, 5 Sumner PI. (a 7584 7586; www.sumnerpiace.com). Tube: South Kensington. The amenities of a luxury hotel with the charm of a converted Victorian, …
ARLES MAP The beauty and ancient history of Arles (pop. 35,000) have made it a Provence favorite. A reminder of Arles’s former position as the capital of Roman Gaul, …
Dresden Map Tourist Attractions SEMPER-OPER. Dresden’s famed opera house luxuriates in the same style as the northern wing of the Zwinger palace. Painstaking restoration has returned the building to …
D-DAY BEACHES PARIS On June 6,1944, over one million Allied soldiers invaded the beaches of Normandy in the first of a chain of events that liberated France and led …