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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)

VENICE - Exploring Venice and Egypt

The thousand-year old relationship between Venice and Egypt narrated for the first time ever through more than 300 works currently on display at the Palazzo Ducale.

Our audio walking tour of Venice talks about the important connections that Venice has with the East but this exhibition explores the relationship further.

In the same way that Cleopatra seduced Julius Caesar first and then, fatally, Marcus Antonius, so did the charm of Egypt conquer Rome first and then the entire West. The exhibition held in Venice from October 1st, 2011 to January 22nd, 2012 in the spectacular Sala dello Scrutinio of the Doge's Palace - the heart and symbol of the Serenissima - illustrates the relationship between "Venice and Egypt" over almost two millennia.

From the transfer of Saint Mark's body from Alexandria in 828, which we mention in our guide to St Mark's Square, our mini guide To Venice, right through to the 19th century adventures of explorers such as Giambattista Belzoni, from the vicissitudes of merchants and diplomats on the trail of goods, treasures and lands to oddities regarding humanists and scientists tackling the mysteries of hieroglyphs, of pyramids and of the ancient science of the pharaohs, all accompanied by precious finds, previously unseen texts and works of art which show how the great Venetian masters - from Giorgione to Titian, from Tintoretto to Tiepolo, from Amigoni to Strozzi, from Piranesi to Caffi - imagined Egypt.

Information: Info call center 848082000 (dall'Italia)

tel. (+39) 041 42730892 (solo per chi chiama dall'estero)

www.museiciviciveneziani.it

www.visitmuve.it

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