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Download a city guide of some of Europe's most beautiful cities onto your iPod, mp3 player or phone. As we guide you through the streets, along the route we've planned for you, our city guides will tell you what you're looking at and how to make the most of your city break.

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)

ROME - New exhibition celebrates unification of Italy

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy, the Scuderie del Quirinale is to host a major exhibition showing how Italian painters depicted the events that led the country to achieve independence and national unity between 1859 and 1861.
Our mp3 tour of the Vatican and Trastevere explains how Rome changed as the country was unified the Popes fell out with the emerging national government resulting in them remaining “prisoners of the Vatican,” for decades.
It’s amazing to think that Italy is only 150 years old and audio tour of Florence explains that city was the first capital of the new country. ? The exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, or the stables of the Quirinale, comprises work by the leading artists of the day including Francesco Hayez, Giuseppe Molteni, Domenico and Gerolamo Induno, Eleuterio Pagliano, Federico Faruffini, Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Odoardo Borrani, Michele Cammarano and Giuseppe Sciuti.
It aims to show how their interpretation of events tended to afford priority to the heartfelt grassroots support that the movement enjoyed while shunning a more obvious, celebratory rhetoric.
For the very first time, the monumental pictures of Giovanni Fattori and Gerolamo Induno will be set alongside one another to highlight an identity of purpose that was achieved through the use of differing artistic vocabularies. Their aim was to depict the crucial battles in the conquest of our country's unity while shifting the viewer's attention from the military aspect to their ideal and human content.

6 October 2010 – 16 January 2011

Scuderie del Quirinale

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