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93Top Ten Underrated European Cities
Everybody knows cities like Paris, London, Rome, and Barcelona are among the best in Europe, but there are many other fabulous European cities that just don’t get their fair share of the limelight. Whether the country’s capitals and bigger...
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83The Holy Blood of Bruges, a New Jerusalem
The Holy Blood of Christ seems to have turned medieval Bruges (in Flanders, Belgium) into a Holy City. It's what, since the 19th century, made tourism popular in Bruges. But maybe this Holy City is not as holy as it seems...
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76Bruges-la-Morte, by Georges Rodenbach
In 1892 Georges Rodenbach published his masterpiece Bruges-la-Morte. The short novel immediately was acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of the "decadent movement" in French literature, a vision of the Flemish city of Bruges that once...
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77The Story of the Grail by Chretien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet who was the first to write about the Grail, but what is the Grail... and where can the Grail be? Some believe the Grail is the Holy Blood of Christ, or his royal bloodline... and this Holy Blood was brought to Bruges, by the Templars.
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77Visiting Bruges-la-Morte, a medieval ghost city
One of those many timeless carriages, which are available to tourists, stopped for me. The coachman looked very, very old... but he offered me kindly a free ride. 'Sir,' I said, 'you who drives day and night over the cobblestone roads of...
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76In Bruges
If you are not from Europe, you probably never heard about Belgian city Bruges before recent Colin Farrell movie "In Bruges". In fact, Bruges (Brugge in Dutch), one of the most beautiful and well preserved...
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73Fairy Tale Guesthouse in Medieval Bruges
Guesthouse Nuit Blanche (that's French, and it means "white night", or "sleepless night") leads you straight into another time and another place... Meet & Greet the Phantoms of Bruges-la-Morte!
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74Brugge In Winter
By Fiona Lister Described as the “Venice of the North” Bruges, Brugge or Bruge is a magical city - the perfect place for a romantic weekend or quiet New Year getaway. Cobbled streets, medieval buildings illuminated by fairy lights, horses...
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80The Code of the Holy Blood
In 1890, the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote to a young Dutch novelist he was searching for "a demoniac sodomite priest" who performed the black mass. Joris-Karl - "J.K." for the friends - needed this man for a new book about satanism which...
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79Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Essence of Decadence
The French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans started his career as a naturalist, but with "A Rebours" ("Against Nature") he wrote "the bible of decadence" and with "Down There" a history of satanism, facts turned into fiction, and a masterpiece of occult...
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