By Roddy Martine
Ever when you consider that its construction within the mid 15th century, Rosslyn Chapel has solid a mesmerising spell over all who've visited it. Nestling in a beautiful glen slightly seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, it exudes a unprecedented surroundings, serene but charged, as though it holds the key of a few large, unearthly secret. virtually six hundred years after its construction it is still an enigma that maintains to confound, intrigue and hearth the mind's eye of these who think that the treasures of the Knights Templar lie hidden inside its precincts, in addition to different extra outlandish speculations. during this booklet, Roddy Martine sifts via mounds of unfounded conjecture and delusion to make feel of a number of the theories surrounding the chapel. "The secrets and techniques of Rosslyn" shall we the proof converse for themselves, exhibiting that in actual fact no much less extraordinary than fiction.
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