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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)

LONDON - get lost in Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square has a new attraction that encourages anyone on a London city break to get lost.  A maze has recently been laid out in what is one of London’s most famous tourist attractions.
  Trafalgar Square is a stop on our London mp3 tour and our mp3 guide to London tells visitors all about this historic square.  The most striking feature about Trafalgar Square is of course, Nelson's Column.  Horatio Nelson is probably Britain's most celebrated naval hero and his greatest victory was at Trafalgar of the coast of Spain in 1805. Napoleon had plans to invade Britain as part of his attempts at the military and economic domination of Europe. Admiral Lord Nelson and his fleet saw off the French invaders but Nelson died towards the end of the battle.
  This square was laid out 25 years after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1830 and Nelson's column, which is 145 feet high was built ten years after that. The lions were added in 1860 and the fountains arrived a little later. Hitler was so impressed by Nelson's column that he ordered his bombers to spare it so that he could install it in Berlin once he'd won the war.
  Trafalgar Square is certainly grand but the traffic doesn't do it any favours and its second most famous residents after Nelson - the pigeons - are loathed by most Londoners.  But things have improved slightly as the northern part of the square has been closed to traffic and the pigeons – complete with their mess – have largely been removed.
  As our London audio guide explains, of all the statues in the square, the one on the round traffic island nearest Whitehall is the oldest - it's Charles I and it dates from 1633, just a few years after he was executed. The traffic island it's on, by the way, is the official centre of London.

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