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Beaton
Cecil Beaton's sense of style and his much-celebrated career as a designer for film and stage have overshadowed his position as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. Beaton's persona provided a mask that concealed the seriousness of his accomplishment. His career, running from his earliest pictures in the Twenties to his last work in the Seventies, is unparalleled in its historical breadth. By mid-century he had produced an astonishing array of portraits of the greatest creative figures of his time, including Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. In contrast to the flamboyance and artifice of his early work, Beaton later displayed an almost minimalist eye. Beaton was to become a star on both sides of the Atlantic. He was at home in Hollywood studios as he was in English society. He maintained his role as royal portraitist, photographing the Queen at the same time as he courted the new royalty of the Swinging Sixties. Surprisingly he was commissioned to photograph the set of the film Performance and its star, Mick Jagger in 1968. The film marked the end of an era, as well as Beaton's last great assignment. The book is drawn mostly from the 100,000 prints and negatives of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's and follows the definitive monograph of his work during the war years, Theatre of War, published in 2012.
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55,10 €
58,00 €
Koreatown - A Cookbook
This is not your average soft-focus "journey to Asia" kind of cookbook."Koreatown"is a spicy, funky, flavor-packed love affair with the grit and charm of Korean cooking in America. Koreatowns around the country are synonymous with mealtime feasts and late-night chef hangouts, and Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard show us why with stories, interviews, and over 100 delicious, super-approachable recipes. It's spicy, it's fermenty, it's sweet and savory and loaded with umami: Korean cuisine is poised to break out in the U.S., but until now, Korean cookbooks have been focused on taking readers to an idealized Korean fantasyland."Koreatown," though, is all about what's real and happening right here: the foods of Korean American communities all over our country, from L.A. to New York City, from Atlanta to Chicago. We follow Rodbard and Hong through those communities with stories and recipes for everything from beloved Korean barbecue favorites like bulgogi and kalbi to the lesser-known but deeply satisfying stews, soups, noodles, salads, drinks, and the many kimchis of the Korean American table."
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25,18 €
26,50 €
Universe Within
The Universe Within is a thrilling journey from today all the way back to the Big Bang, which shows the deep connections between the human body and the universe, from Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish. What links the birth of the moon to our body clocks? How did the creation of the Atlantic Ocean affect how we have children? What does the water inside us and on Earth have to do with the deepest stretches of space? Humanity's status in the cosmos can seem insignificant. Yet, as Neil Shubin shows, the one place where the universe, solar system and planet merge is inside your body. Exploring the smallest atomic structures and vastest reaches of space, Shubin uncovers a sublime truth: that in every one of us lies the most profound story of all - how we and our world came to be. Neil Shubin is a palaeontologist in the great tradition of his mentors, Ernst Mayr and Stephen Jay Gould. He has discovered fossils around the world that have changed the way we think about many of the key transitions in evolution and has pioneered a new synthesis of expeditionary palaeontology, developmental genetics and genomics. He trained at Columbia, Harvard and Berkeley and is currently a Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.
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11,88 €
12,50 €
Kanári-szigetek
Az ismert útikönyvsorozat legfrissebb kiadása, aktuális információkkal.
Barangoljon velünk a Kanári-szigeteken. A vulkanikus szigetekből álló szigetcsoport az Atlanti-óceán vizében fekszik. A kellemes éghajlat és a kitűnő strandok turisták tömegeit vonzzák elsősorban Tenerifére és Gran Canariára, de Lanzarote és Fuerteventura is egyre nagyobb ütemben fejlődik. A szigeteken a táj változatossága lenyűgöző. Hósipkás hegyeket, gyönyörű, zöldellő völgyeket, sivatagokat, magasba tornyosuló sziklákat és csodálatos, aranyszínű vagy fekete homokos strandokat egyaránt találunk a Kanári-szigeteken: itt mindenki megtalálja a magának való helyet.
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction...Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story of the beautiful American heiress who lived at Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes' award winning drama Downton Abbey. Glamorous and wealthy, Catherine became the toast of London society when she travelled across the Atlantic in 1920 to marry the Earl of Porchester, or 'Porchy', as he was known. At just 19 Catherine had to learn how to organise and host the lavish banquets and weekend house parties that Porchy so loved. She found herself suddenly in charge of the more than eighty staff working at Highclere Castle, and persuaded her husband to improve their living and working conditions. But things were far from perfect. The demands of running such a large household were greater than Lady Catherine had expected. Her new husband gradually revealed himself to be a scandalous rogue, squandering their money and pursuing silent movie stars across London. When World War Two broke out, there was yet more turbulence, with Highclere transformed into an American airbase, and host to several hundred soldiers, as well as fifty young evacuees from East London. Drawing on rich material from the archives at Highclere, including beautiful period photographs, Lady Carnarvon transports us back to the thrilling and alluring world of the real Downton Abbey and its inhabitants.
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16,63 €
17,50 €
World War Two A Short History
A pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new light. The Second World War is the nightmare that sits at the heart of the modern era - a total refutation of any notion of human progress and a conflict which still haunts us seventy years on. Norman Stone's gripping new book aims to tell the narrative of the war in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fresh and arresting. As with his highly acclaimed World War One: A Short History, there is a compelling sense of a terrible story unfolding, of a sceptical and humorous intelligence at work, and a wish to convey to an audience who may well have no memory of the conflict just how high the stakes were. This is a beautifully written, clever and imaginative attempt to convey what can almost not be conveyed. About the author: Norman Stone is one of Britain's greatest historians. His major works include The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize and published by Penguin), Europe Transformed and The Atlantic and Its Enemies (published by Penguin). He has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bilkent, where he is now Director of the Turkish-Russian Centre. He lives in Ankara.
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18,53 €
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The Second World War
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War. Moral choice forms the basis of all human drama, and no other period in history has presented greater dilemmas both for leaders and ordinary people, nor offered such examples of individual and mass tragedy, the corruption of power politics, ideological hypocrisy, the egomania of commanders, betrayal, perversity, self-sacrifice, unbelievable sadism and unpredictable kindness. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.
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26,59 €
27,99 €
Alinea
The debut cookbook from the restaurant Gourmet magazine named the best in the country. A pioneer in American cuisine, chef Grant Achatz represents the best of the molecular gastronomy movement--brilliant fundamentals and exquisite taste paired with a groundbreaking approach to new techniques and equipment. ALINEA showcases Achatz's cuisine with more than 100 dishes (totaling 600 recipes) and 600 photographs presented in a deluxe volume. Three feature pieces frame the book: Michael Ruhlman considers Alinea's role in the global dining scene, Jeffrey Steingarten offers his distinctive take on dining at the restaurant, and Mark McClusky explores the role of technology in the Alinea kitchen. Buyers of the book will receive access to a website featuring video demonstrations, interviews, and an online forum that allows readers to interact with Achatz and his team. "Achatz is something new on the national culinary landscape: a chef as ambitious as Thomas Keller who wants to make his mark not with perfection but with constant innovation . . . Get close enough to sit down and allow yourself to be teased, challenged, and coddled by Achatz's version of this kind of cooking, and you can have one of the most enjoyable culinary adventures of your life." --Corby Kummer, senior editor of Atlantic Monthly "Someone new has entered the arena. His name is Grant Achatz, and he is redefining the American restaurant once again for an entirely new generation . . .
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58,85 €
61,95 €
A Slovak woman and America
In the first phase of emigration (1880s) men were migrating first and then they were followed by women. It is
interesting that since the men crossed the Atlantic several times in a row they were given a wonderful nickname – ‘the
birds of the sea’. Following these emigrants, young women who could not find a life partner at home and married
women following their husbands were coming. Like men, women belonged to different social groups too. Wives of
evangelical priests, traders, and some representatives of associations and organizations belonged to intellectual
groups. Except the middle classes, such as merchants and craftsmen, most of the expatriates can be classified as
based in lowest social layers. These were miners, steel workers and auxiliaries.
This present work has an ambition to deal with a marginal phenomenon of emigration, but in particular with the issue of
Slovak women in the U.S., the emergence of the first Slovak female associations, primarily the Zivena, the First
Catholic Ladies Organization (Prva zenska katolicka jednota), The Ladies Pennsylvania Greek – Catholic Union (
Pennsylvanska greckokatolicka zenska jednota), the Lutheran Union (Evanjelicka jednota), as well as with the
development of the first Slovak female orders and congregations in America. This work also partly touches the topic of
the first Czech-Slovak resistance, especially the participation of Slovak women in resistance activities.
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9,50 €
10,00 €
Invictus - Egy vakmerő római kalandjai a hadseregben
HISPANIÁT MEGSZÁLLTÁK, DE MÉG NEM HÓDÍTOTTÁK MEG, ÉS TOVÁBBRA IS VESZÉLYES KIHÍVÁST JELENT RÓMA SZÁMÁRA
Kr. u. 54. A római hadsereg katonáinak egyre nagyobb, a Földközi-tengertől az Északi-tengerig, az Atlanti-óceántól a Nílusig kiterjedő birodalom határait kell megvédeniük. Róma könyörtelenül rákényszeríti a leigázott népekre az uralmát, legiói a világ leghatékonyabb és legagresszívabb haderejét alkotják.
Ennek a seregnek két harcedzett veteránja Cato praefectus és Macro centurio, akiket többévi harc után rendelnek vissza Britanniából Rómába.
Csak kevés időt tölthetnek a forrongó, veszélyesen átpolitizált városban: hamarosan útnak kell indulniuk a praetorianus gárdával a lázongó Hispaniába, ahol a római uralommal szembeni ellenszenvet csak tovább fokozza a helyi törzsek közötti keserű versengés. A két régi jó barát és bajtársaik soha nem kerültek még szembe ilyen kihívással - ráadásul olyan földön, amely meghódíthatatlannak tartja magát...
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11,88 €
12,50 €
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The New York times 36 Hours
!Buen viaje! This title features dream weekends and practical travel itineraries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Covering a span of terrain stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Latin America and the Caribbean harbor a wealth of enticing destinations. Stylishly written and carefully researched, this updated and expanded collection of the New York Times' popular 36 Hours feature offers you 60 well-crafted itineraries for quick but memorable trips, accompanied by hundreds of color photographs to fire your imagination. You can explore the crystal clear waters of the Bahamas; try your hand at surfing in Costa Rica, tango in Buenos Aires; discover frenetic megacities, ancient ruins, tranquil beaches, and tropical rainforests...from the expected (the cloud forest in Costa Rica, snorkeling in the Cayman Islands, urban beach culture at Ipanema) to the unexpected (a concert hall in Trinidad for steel-band music, the Colombian walled city of Cartagena, an Antiguan peak named for Barack Obama) - it's all here in this handsomely designed and illustrated book. It includes: 2,160 hours worth of insightful itineraries to make the most of your stay; 60 destinations, from major cities to lesser-known gems; practical recommendations for over 250 restaurants and 200 hotels; color-coded tabs and ribbons to bookmark your favorite cities in each region; nearly 400 photos; illustrations by Olimpia Zagnoli; easy-to-reference indexes; and detailed city-by-city maps that pinpoint every stop on your itinerary.
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23,70 €
24,95 €
USA Best Trips 3
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips. Featuring 52 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures, you can cruise the cliffs along California's Big Sur coast or roll alongside Appalachian hills, all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road!
Inside Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips:
Lavish color and gorgeous photography throughout
Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests
Get around easily - 120 easy-to-read, full-color route maps, detailed directions
Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads
Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices
Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
Useful features - including Stretch Your Legs,Detours, Link Your Trip
Covers New York & the Mid-Atlantic, New England, Florida & the South, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, the Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips is perfect for exploring the USA in the classic American way - by road trip!
Planning an Americana trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's USA guide, our most comprehensive guide to the USA, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems.
Looking for a guide focused on a specific American city? Check out Lonely Planet's New York City guide, San Francisco guide and Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California guide for a comprehensive look at all that these cities have to offer, or Pocket New York City, Pocket San Francisco and Pocket Los Angeles, handy-sized guides focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveler community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
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20,43 €
21,50 €
No Place to Hide
THE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS DOCUMENTED IN LAURA POITRAS'S CITIZENFOUR
Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history.
In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which rocked the world.
The reports revealed shocking truths about the extent to which the National Security Agency had been gathering information about US citizens and intercepting communication worldwide, and were based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden to Greenwald.
Including new revelations from documents entrusted to Greenwald by Snowden, this essential book tells the story of Snowden and the NSA and examines the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance program, both in the US and abroad.
'The first thing I do when I turn on the computer in the morning is go to Glenn Greenwald's blog. He is truly one of our greatest writers right now' Michael Moore
'The most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years' Bill Moyers
Glenn Greenwald is the author of several US bestsellers, including How Would A Patriot Act?, and A Tragic Legacy. Acclaimed as one of the twenty-five most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, Greenwald is a former constitutional law and civil rights attorney. He has been a columnist for the Guardian since August 2012 and his work has appeared in numerous newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
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11,88 €
12,50 €
Houses And Gardens
In over thirty years of practice, Robert A. M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and, above all, to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. This monograph, covering the years 1999-2002, is the fourth in a series on Stern's work. The volume includes more than one hundred projects, including houses and apartments, buildings for cultural institutions and universities, office and commercial structures, government facilities, and designs for products, including fabric and tableware.
Robert A M Stern has contributed to Robert A. M. Stern: Houses and Gardens as an author.Robert A. M. Stern is the founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects and dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is the author of the monumental five-volume history of New York's architecture and urban development, concluding with "New York 2000," The author lives in New York.Witold Rybczynski has contributed to Robert A. M. Stern: Houses and Gardens as a content introducer.Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture for "The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker", and "Slate", and is the author of the critically acclaimed book "Home" and the award-winning "A Clearing in the Distance". He is the recipient of the National Building Museum's 2007 Vincent Scully Prize. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.
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56,95 €
59,95 €
Magic Shifts
In the latest Kate Daniels novel from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Ilona Andrews, magic is coming and going in waves in post-Shift Atlanta and each crest leaves danger in its wake After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are adjusting to a very different pace. While they re thrilled to escape all the infighting, Kate and Curran know that separating from the Pack completely is a process that will take time. But when they learn that their friend Eduardo has gone missing, Kate and Curran shift their focus to investigate his disappearance. Eduardo was a fellow member of the Mercenary Guild, so Kate knows the best place to start looking is his most recent jobs. As Kate and Curran dig further into the merc s business, they discover that the Guild has gone to hell and that Eduardo s assignments are connected in the most sinister way An ancient enemy has arisen, and Kate and Curran are the only ones who can stop it before it takes their city apart piece by piece."
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21,38 €
22,50 €
Ground Work
The current environmental crisis calls for a unified practice of landscape and architecture that would allow buildings and landscapes to perform symbiotically to heal the environment. Over the past ten years, a diverse group of architects, landscape architects, and artists have undertaken groundbreaking projects that propose an integration of landscape and architecture, dissolving traditional distinctions between building and environment. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture examines twenty-five projects, on an international scale, that consider landscape and architecture as true reciprocal entities. Groundwork divides the projects into three design directions: Topography, Ecology, and Biocomputation. Topographic designers create projects that manipulate the ground to merge building and landscape as in Cairo Expo City in Egypt (Zaha Hadid Architects), Island City Central Park Grin Grin in Fukuoka, Japan (Toyo Ito & Associates) and the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Eisenman Architects). Ecologic designers develop environments that address issues such as energy climate and remediation, such as I’m Lost In Paris in France (R&Sie(n)), Turistroute in Eggum, Norway (Snøhetta) and Parque Atlántico in Santander, Cantabria, Spain (Batlle i Roig Arquitectes). Biocomputation designers use digital technologies to align biology and design in projects such as the Grotto Concept (Aranda/Lasch), North Side Copse House in West Sussex, England (EcoLogicStudio) and Local Code: Real Estates (Nicolas de Monchaux.) What these projects all have in common is a desire to pay attention and homage to the liminal space where indoors and outdoors meet. The critical connection between natural and synthetic, exterior and interior space, paves the way toward a more inclusive—and indeed more alive—conceptualization of the physical world.
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30,39 €
31,99 €
Nácik okkult háborúja
Hitler és Himmler szilárdan hitt abban, hogy a németek az elsüllyedt földrész, Atlantisz túlélőinek a leszármazottai... Gazdagon illusztrált könyvében Michael FitzGerald feltárja, milyen elképesztő mértékben befolyásolták az okkult és az ezoterikus elképzelések a náci vezetőket, akik célkitűzéseik szolgálatába állították a "mágikus gondolkodásmódot" is.
A nácik eltökélten bíztak a vér és a föld erejében, abban, hogy egy elfelejtett múlt örököseiként érvényesíthetik a faj tisztaságának megszállott gondolatát. Temérdek pénzt költöttek az "okkult hatóságként" működő, asztrológusokat, médiumokat, igazlátókat és jövendőmondókat foglalkoztató Ahnenerbére.
Michael FitzGerald számos nagy sikerű tudományos ismeretterjesztő mű szerzője. Legismertebb munkái: Adolf Hitler - egy portré; Amerikai gondviselés - Ádámtól Obamáig; Rongyokban Londonban - a londoni szegények élete.
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13,54 €
14,25 €
Zeusz nevében
Erich von Däniken lenyűgözően izgalmas felfedező utazásokra hív. A neves szerző könyvében idősíkokat köt össze: a múltba repít, de mindig a jelen valóságából indul ki. Megoldásra váró rejtélyekre hívja fel a figyelmet, például Atlantisz történetére. A könyv többi fejezete egy-egy titkos lépcső a múltba és a jövőbe. Megismerhetjük a Trója körüli bonyodalmakat, Földet ért klímakatasztrófákat, az ősi isteneket és szentélyeiket, a jóval az időszámítás előtti csodákat, építményeket, a görög mitológia kalandjait, az Argonauták útját és az Aranygyapjú legendáját, de nem maradhatnak ki a földönkívüliek sem...
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6,33 €
6,66 €
Lisszabon - A legjobb városnéző útvonalak
14 városnéző útvonal, melyek során tökéletesen megismerhetjük Lisszabont. Fedezzük fel a portugál főváros legjobbjait: az Alfama sikátorait, a fadozenét, a tengerpartot, az éjszakai életet és sok egyebet.
Fedezze fel velünk Lisszabont! Útikönyvünk a művészetkedvelőknek, a családoknak és az éjszakai bagolyoknak is kínál útvonalakat a városnéző sétához. Napsütéses időjárásával, gazdag történelmével és a régi korokat idéző bájával a portugál főváros az egyik legnépszerűbb európai úti céllá vált. Fedezzük fel a mór stílusú Alfama negyed labirintusként kanyargó mellékutcáit, melyeknek köszönhetően a városrész még ma is egy kis falu hangulatát árasztja. Tekintsük meg a Szent Jeromos kolostort és a Belém tornyot. Szálljunk fel a régi típusú 28-as villamosra, hogy a dombokon fel- és lefelé zötyögve élvezhessük a város műemlékeinek látványát. Menjünk fel lifttel vagy gyalogosan Lisszabon számtalan kilátójának egyikéhez, és gyönyörködjünk a városra és a folyóra nyíló kilátásban. Ha pihenésre vágyunk, hagyjuk magunk mögött a városi nyüzsgést, szálljunk vonatra, és irány a cascaisi part. Érezzük az Atlanti-óceán hűs fuvallatát! Hasznos információink segítenek megismerni a helyi konyhát, a vásárlási, szórakozási és pihenési lehetőségeket. Válogassunk az éttermek, bárok és hotelek között. A felfedezőutak során segítségükre lesz a részletes, összehajtható térkép is.