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Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides - only the most beautiful cities and their unusual sights! The ideal city guides for travellers who want to escape the crowds and go beyond the well-known paths, as well as for those inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew their city.
- A comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 80 fascinating and unusual historical sights in Germany's most historic city
- Religious relics, forgotten fortresses, unexpected sanctuaries, abandoned
cemeteries, and little-known museums
- From Colonia Agrippinensis and the French occupation to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Third Reich
- Napoleon's cemetery, a road beneath the Rhine, the city lighthouse, and where the Red Baron learned to fly
- The bones of Saint Ursula, the inventor Konrad Adenauer, bad boy Martin Kippenberger, and the legend of Bishop Maternus
About the author
Duncan J. D. Smith was born in Sheffield, England in 1960. He is a self-styled 'Urban Explorer', photohistorian, and travel writer, and has written several books with his father, Trevor, about their home county of Yorkshire. Duncan is a keen gardener, natural historian, collector, and cook.
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