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Where are the best places in Copenhagen to experience New Nordic cuisine? What are the best places to shop for Scandinavian furniture, fashion, and design? What are the best spots for natural wine? Where can you find the best nature trails and waterfront walks? Where are the city's small, independent cinemas? Which museums are best to visit on a rainy Danish day? What is smørrebrød and where can I try it? What is Copenhagen's best artisanal coffee?

The 500 Hidden ...

New and fully updated edition 2022

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Paris reveals 500 off-the-beaten- track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to explore Paris’ best-kept secrets, e.g.

• The 5 best vintage markets

• 5 beautiful artist studios

• The 5 best workplaces for freelancers

• 5 cool clubs to party after midnight

• 5 speciality shops Parisians can’t live without ... and much more.

The 500 Hidden Secrets is a series of essential city guides. Every guide

• is...

New & fully updated edition 2023

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Rome reveals 500 off-the-beaten track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to explore the city’s best-kept secrets, such as

• The 5 favourite osterie to eat among locals

• 5 places to see fascist-era architecture

• 5 ancient games to discover

• 5 hidden sundials or meridians

• The 5 most charming artists’ houses

… and much more.

The 500 Hidden Secrets is a series of essential city guides.

Every guide,...

New & fully updated edition 2023

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Rotterdam reveals 500 off-the-beaten-track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to explore Rotterdam’s best-kept secrets, such as the 5 best places to enjoy Surinamese food, 5 pieces of world class art in public spaces, the 5 most stunning plant shops, the 5 most characteristic neighbourhoods … and much more.

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he 500 Hidden Secrets is a series of essential city guides.

Every guide is written by a savvy local, co...

After years of experience in education, research, design and policy, Professor Marcel Smets, former Flemish Government Architect, compiles his insights on the city and urban design in a personal booklet.

In his search for the foundations of urban design, Marcel Smets puts forward thirty complementary pairs of concepts. He starts from archetypal settlement forms (ribbon and cluster, ladder and star), typifies morphological categories (street and road, island and archipelago) and highlights ch...

A new and fully updated edition, 2022.

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Lisbon reveals 500 off-the-beaten-track places and interesting details for anyone who's keen to explore Lisbon's best-kept secrets, e.g.

• The 5 best restaurants for petiscos

• 5 beautiful bars from another time

• 5 places to enjoy the river

• 5 addresses to see azulejos tiles

•... and much more.

The 500 Hidden Secrets is a series of essential city guides.

Every guide

• is written by a savvy local

• only contains i...

- New fully updated edition May 2022 -

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Venice reveals 500 off-the-beaten- track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to explore Venice’s best-kept secrets, such as 5 restaurants tourists will never ever find, 5 places to admire Carlo Scarpa’s work, 5 fun open-air markets, 5 convents where you can spend the night, 5 things to do when it rains ... and much more

While ANNA SARDI originally hails from the Veneto, she is a Venetian by passion. An arc...

Not every solution is an answer to a problem.

The Brussels-based artist David Helbich started collecting Belgian Solutions in 2006: he made photos of the peculiar and sometimes hilarious, no-nonsense solutions that he spotted in his daily surroundings. Once he started to share his photos online on Facebook and other social network platforms in 2009 (The Belgian Solutions page has over 34.000 fans by now) the project grew rapidly, with contributions posted by Belgian Solution spotters from ar...

Updated edition, February 2022

Where are the 5 best places to find street food? What are the 5 most innovative theatres? What are the best places for craft ale or the best spots to dig for vintage vinyl? What are the 5 best restaurants to grab lunch at in Soho? What are the 5 must-visit stalls at Borough Market and where are the best small museums and galleries?

The 500 Hidden Secrets of London reveals these good-to-know addresses and many more. It is an affectionate guide to the city, writte...

- New fully updated edition May 2022 -

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Amsterdam reveals 500 off-the- beaten-track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to explore Amsterdam’s best-kept secrets, such as the 5 best places to dine on the water, the 5 best shops for Dutch design, 5 places to find art in public areas, the 5 most charming hidden gardens, 5 pleasant living room cafés ... and much more

SASKIA NAAFS & GUIDO VAN EIJCK are researchers and writers specialised in a wide ra...