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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)

FLORENCE - Special opening of the Uffizi and the Accademia

Next Monday, August 15th, Florence will offer tourists a one off opening of its two most important museums: the Uffizi and the Accademia Galleries. The Uffizi Gallery will be open from 8.15am to 6.50pm, and the Accademia Gallery from 8.15am to 1.50pm. It is an extraordinary opportunity to visit these two Florentine jewels which host some of the most incredible Italian works of art.

  As we explain in our Florence mp3 tour, the word Uffizi comes from the Italian word for office, 'ufficio'.  This is because this building was originally designed by Giorgio Vasari to be the offices of the Tuscan government before it became a dedicated art gallery in the eighteenth century – arguably the first such public art gallery in the world.

  The Uffizi Gallery is the most visited Italian museum, with more than 1.5 million visitors per year. Divided into several rooms set up for schools and styles in chronological order, it offers a visit with priceless works from the 12th to the 18th centuries, with the best collection in the world of the Tuscan school, and of Florence in particular, displaying the evolution of art from Gothic to Renaissance: from Cimabue to Michelangelo, passing through Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. Visit includes also the incredible Botticelli's masterpieces, as well as important pieces from other Italian and European schools (Mantegna, Titian, Parmigianino, Dürer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Canaletto amongst others.



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