You've seen la Tour Eiffel, le Louvre, and Notre Dame. Now what's next? Stroll through 9 secret passages in Paris.
No matter how old you get, you never outgrow wanting to have a secret passageway or hidden room in your house.
In these special hideaways, guests can live like royals (if only for a night or two) and explore secret passageways, relax in private gardens, or stare out at vistas once reserved for the Pope, Viceroy of Egypt, or Louis XV.
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I'm not sure what spurred my love of secret passages first. Maybe it was reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or any mystery novel that involved...
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
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If there's one dream that unites all bookish folks (aside from, you know, universal literacy) it's the dream of having a secret passageway hidden
Designing secret doorways that leads into hidden rooms and passageways in your home can be an exciting new design concept to introduce into your home.
Q: Why would anyone want to keep such beautiful spaces a secret? A: Because secret rooms are awwwweeesooome.
Under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, which began in 1558, Catholics were persecuted by law and priests were imprisoned, tortured, and frequently executed. As a result of this oppression, wealthy Catholic families began building secret chambers and passages in their homes called ‘priest holes’ in order to hide priests when the pursuivants or ‘priest hunters’ came searching.
Whether behind a bookcase or beneath a trapdoor, these eight regal dwellings each contain one or more secret rooms, hidden passageways, or covert architecture.
