Our Guides
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 - Its carnival time again
The word Carnival means, literally ‘meat good-bye’ and the event originally marked the day when people would eat up the last of the meet before fasting for Lent. But for centuries the Carnival of Venice has been a decidedly unreligious event.
As early as the twelfth century there are records of people being forbidden from playing something called the ‘egg game’ and during the 15th century men were being warned by the authorities not to enter convents while dressed as nuns.
But it wasn’t just men – women were whipped as they ran from from St Mark's to the Rialto bridge and then held up to public ridicule between the two columns overlooking the canal in St Mark's Square.
This Saturday you can enjoy hot chocolate in costume at the Hotel Danieli followed by a moon masquerade at the Luna Hotel Baglioni.
The Serenissima Gran Ball takes place at the 14th century Palazzo Pesaro Papavafa which has a beautiful gothic facade overlooking the canal of the Misericordia. The palace will be illuminated entirely with candles with music by Mozart.
The ideal accompaniment to any Venice break is our Venice mp3 tour.
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