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Florence
We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
Tanya Ellison - (27/08/06)

Venice
This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica. We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide. Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)

AMSTERDAM - Alexander the Great on display

The Immortal Alexander the Great will be on view from 18 September 2010 until 18 March 2011 in the Hermitage Amsterdam, with over 350 masterpieces, including the famous Gonzaga cameo, from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
  As we explain in our Amsterdam audio tour, the Hermitage is an exciting new museum in Amsterdam and should feature in any guide to Amsterdam.
  This is the first time that any Dutch museum has devoted an exhibition to Alexander the Great, his journey to the East, and the influence of Hellenism.  The exhibition spans a period of almost 2,500 years.  In the Hermitage Amsterdam, the ‘immortal’ Alexander will be brought to life for six months.
The exhibition begins with the myth of Alexander.  Images from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, tapestries, and decorative arts display his heroic deeds and conquests.  Impressive examples include paintings by Pietro Antonio Rotari (Alexander the Great and Roxana) and Sebastiano Ricci (Apelles painting Campaspe), and a tapestry depicting The Family of Darius before Alexander the Great.
  The exhibition then moves on to Alexander’s reality, his native Macedonia, his teachers, his heroes Achilles and Heracles, and his ideals.  The lion’s share of this reality consists of his journey, the Great Expedition to the East: an unparalleled campaign of conquest lasting over ten years, with an army that was more than 50,000 strong.  Objects from Egypt and Persia, from the nomads and the Babylonians, attest to the rich cultures that he encountered on his travels.  Visitors can follow the route of his celebrated journey on interactive maps and computers.

 www.hermitage.nl



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