Königsallee
Canal-split boulevard of chestnut trees, luxury boutiques and banks, laid out on the old fortress moat.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Königsallee in Düsseldorf follows Albert Eickhoff, a fashion merchant who started out with his wife Brigitte in a small Westphalian town in nineteen sixty-one, and the trade he brought to this boulevard. It touches the young Gianni Versace on a living-room sofa, the bank side across the canal, and an open-air fashion show held here in nineteen forty-nine. Best heard on the canal bank, facing the shop windows.
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