Porto in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider`s checklist of all you need to know about the world`s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we`ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites, & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city`s landscape & the satisfaction you`ve seen all that you should. ...

The Porto, Wait For Me Travel guide will help you discover this city. It will show you its historical routes, reveal the secrets of its monuments, show you the bustling nightlife, & help you make the most of the city. To get you started the inside front cover has a fold out map of Porto’s Metro & some handy Portuguese words & phrases. The guide is divided into sections including, Visiting the City, Urban Life, Food & Drink, & Let’s Go Shopping. For each one you will be presented with an introduction to the particular topic, lots of facts, curiosities, important information accompanied by photographs, illustrations & drawings. Colour referenced throughout, the guide

Includes:: sketch maps for the main districts of Ribeira, Boavista, Baixa & Foz. For each neighbourhood the main attractions come with a concise description, opening times contact details, etc.; each entry is referenced with a number & located in the district map. There is also a brief listing of places to stay with price range & contact details. This is no ordinary guide. Its editorial signature, falling between a magazine & a comic book, mixes illustration, cartoons & photographs with informative text, & will particularly appeal to the arty & quirky travellers.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality
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Portobello lies on the bank of the Grand Canal, stretching from South Richmond Street to Clanbrassil Street & the South Circular Road & including some of the adjacent roads & streets. It is one of the country`s most well-known suburbs, & has long been a hub for artistic & cultural Dublin. The list of luminaries associated with Portobello is quiet extraordinary. It

Includes:: some of the great names of Irish letters, including George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce & Brendan Behan; some of Ireland`s best-known actors, artists, directors, sculptors & painters, among them Barry Fitzgerald & Jack B. Yeats. & not forgetting some of the country`s most prominent politicians & presidents. In this book, Maurice Curtis, takes the reader on a visual tour of Portobello through the decades, recounting both the familiar & the events & places that have faded over time, revealing many fascinating details, including the fact that Dublin`s Portobello was named after an area on the East Coast of Panama! This, & much more, is captured in a timeless volume, which pays fitting tribute to this well-loved part of the city.

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Portobello Road is London`s most iconic street & a unique place to live & visit. Despite the waves of gentrification, soaring rents & the recent arrival of High Street chains, its Bohemian, anarchic, creative spirit still survives. Julian Mash, a former bookseller at the famous Travel Bookshop, meets the traders & shopkeepers, film-makers & fashionistas, punks, promoters & poets who make Portobello what it is. From his encounters with famous residents like Damon Albarn & life-long market traders like Peter Cain there emerges a vivid & sometimes surprising picture of one of Britain`s most famous neighbourhoods. This fascinatingly illustrated book explores how Portobello Road has been at the centre of trends as diverse as racial integration, health food, vintage fashion, the property boom & the life & death of record shops. ...

Portobello Road is London`s most iconic street & a unique place to live & visit. Despite the waves of gentrification, soaring rents & the recent arrival of High Street chains, its Bohemian, anarchic, creative spirit still survives. Julian Mash, a former bookseller at the famous Travel Bookshop, meets the traders & shopkeepers, film-makers & fashionistas, punks, promoters & poets who make Portobello what it is. From his encounters with famous residents like Damon Albarn & life-long market traders like Peter Cain there emerges a vivid & sometimes surprising picture of one of Britain`s most famous neighbourhoods. This fascinatingly illustrated book explores how Portobello Road has been at the centre of trends as diverse as racial integration, health food, vintage fashion, the property boom & the life & death of record shops. ...

Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers & film directors, receives over a million visitors a year.. .and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz
- from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur & make a tin pan; find out what lies behind an obsession with collecting, a passion for buttons & the gusset in boxer shorts & hear how experiences of loss, abandonment & estrangement lead to a life as a market trader. Read the book, rediscover the market & become part of the solution to preserving the wonder that is Portobello.
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Portobello West area of Edinburgh in 1896 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map is double-sided. The main map covers the eastern tip of Edinburgh & western part of Portobello, stretching from Wolseley Crescent & Piershill Barracks eastward to Lee Crescent. Features include NBR railway with Piershill station (at western edge of map), Portobello station, engineering works, Jock's Lodge area, Restalrig, Edinburgh & Portobello Cemetery, tramway & depot, Rosebank area, Brighton Park, Portobello High Street, Harbour Green, Duddingston Mills, Cauvin's Hospital, etc. On the reverse is most of the adjacent sheet 4.01 extending coverage northward to Restalrig House, Craigentinny Meadows, NBR South Leith Branch, Seafield, Seafield Cemetery. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...