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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 - celebrating the 150 annivesary

The celebrations for Italy’s 150^th birthday continue in Venice with a special exhibition at the city’s Querini Stampalia Foundation. As our Venice mp3 tour and our Venice mini city guide explain, Venice suffered centuries of domination by other countries – and that’s partly what makes it so exciting for visitors to Italy.

The exhibition looks at Venice and its lands, following the events that marked the fall of the Republic in 1797, when Venetians were subject to French and Austrian domination and had to wait until the third War of Independence in 1866 to be part of the new Italy.

Giovanni Querini Stampalia, was born on 5 May 1799 and lived during the mature period of the Risorgimento and records of those years are to be found in the Querini Foundation Archives, created by Giovanni Querini himself.
The exhibition, through a selection of documents of this archive and rich library, presents the historical events between 1848 and 1866 both with texts and with images: the assault to Palazzo Querini in August 1849 and the arrival of King Vittorio Emanuele II in August 1866 offer the occasion to examine the intermingling of the events of the Veneto Risorgimento and those of a member of Venetian nobility. Among the material on display are maps, engravings, illustrations, photographs, local magazines and law texts, documents from the family archive, coins and medals.
Opening times: from Tuesday to Saturday 10am-11pm, Sunday and Holidays 10am-7pm. Closed on Mondays
Free admission
www.querinistampalia.it

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