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Beyond the shift. European Theme Route Service & Leisure Industry
The Industrial Revolution resulted in more and more smokestacks shooting out of the ground and a huge increase in factories, coal mines and steelworks; villages merged into towns, and sleepy hamlets were transformed into booming cities. For the first time trading, administrative and leisure facilities had to be organised for masses of customers in new, heavily populated centres. The precursor of the huge department stores was "Les Halles", the huge and legendary market halls in Paris which were built in the middle of the 19th century.
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Newcastle upon Tyne | Grainger Market |
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off Nelson Street | NE1 5QG Newcastle upon Tyne | Great Britain |
| The neo-classical Grainger Market of 1835 characterises the movement throughout nineteenth-century Europe to bring boisterous and sometimes rowdy street markets under a greater degree of control. It w... more >> |
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Paris | La Samaritaine |
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19 Rue de la Monnaie | 75001 Paris | France |
| LaSamaritaine is claimed to be the largest department store in Paris, and its main building is an Art Nouveau structure of outstanding quality with a spectacular galleried interior, designed by Frantz... more >> |
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Paris | Eiffel Tower |
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5 avenue Anatole FranceChamp de Mars | 75007 Paris | France |
| The icon of Paris, the 325 m high structure that was the world’s tallest building between 1889 and 1931, is one of the most imposing monuments which survive from the international exhibitions of the... more >> |
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Ronda | Bullring |
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29400 Ronda | Spain |
| The bullring at Ronda, 65 km west of Malaga, is one of the oldest in Spain, and occupies a significant place in Spanish culture. It was particularly associated with the Romero family. Francesco Romero... more >> |
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Scheveningen | Museum Scheveningen |
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Neptunusstraat 2 | 2586 GT Scheveningen | Netherlands |
| Scheveningen, a 15-minute tram journey from the centre of The Hague, is the principal bathing place on the Netherlands coast, and in many respects is an archetypal seaside resort, with an esplanade, a... more >> |
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex | Southend Pier |
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Western Esplanade | SS1 1EE Southend-on-Sea, Essex | Great Britain |
| The Pier and electric railway opened for the first time in 1890. At 2158 metres / 2360 yards it is the longest pleasure pier in the world. The seaside piers around the coast of Britain are a powerful ... more >> |
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Teplice | Teplice spa |
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Benesovo nam 840 | Teplice | Czech Republic |
| Teplice, known as Tiplitz-Schonau before the Second World War, is a town of 30,000 people in north-west Bohemia with a long history of iron-working and glass-making, but it also one of the best-preser... more >> |
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Valencia | Mercado Central |
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Plaza de Mercado 6 | 46002 Valencia | Spain |
| Valencia stands at the centre of an agricultural region that irrigation has made one of the most fertile in Europe, and its fertility is celebrated in the city’s vast central market, that extends of... more >> |
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Vrouwenpolder | Oosterschelde storm surge barrier - Waterparc Neeltje Jans |
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Faelweg 5 | 4354 RB Vrouwenpolder | Netherlands |
| Once in 80 years. Or in 4000. There’s a big difference. We are talking about the danger of flooding in the area of the Schelde estuary. In 1953 it suffered a terrifying flood disaster which swept aw... more >> |
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Wien | Prater Museum |
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2 Prater, Hauptallee | 1020 Wien | Austria |
| The Prater is 1300 ha park between the Danube and the Danube Canal, an area donated to the city by the Emperor Joseph II in 1766, where bowling greens were laid out, merry-go-rounds erected, and ginge... more >> |
