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Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the Piazza della Signoria will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit the most important Florentine public square, the cities political heart since the middle ages. Packed with people at all hours of the day or night, the piazza unfolds like an open-air gallery in which even the statues allude to episodes of the cities civil history. Facing directly on the square is the Loggia della Signoria, with its three arches, and the dominant Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of the cities governments since 1302. The piazza houses several notable pieces of public sculpture and is a meeting place for visitors and Florentines alike. Close by lies the entrance to the most exalted of all Florentine museums, the Galleria degli Uffizi. View an 18th century replica of Michelangelos David, standing where the original statue once stood, and Giovanni da Bolognas famous statue, Rape of the Sabine Women. Stand on the exact spot where Savonarolas infamous bonfires of the vanity once blazed. Our carefully researched tour guides you along and identifies the most important statues, insuring that you will clearly understand each item's artistic and historic significance. As you view these carefully selected treasures, our professional narrators, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, will delight and amuse with stories from the Piazzas remarkable 800 year history. Includes an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your player. MP3 Format - This 1 hour and 14 minute, 14 track, audio tour is in MP3 format, on 1 CD, ready to load to any MP3 player library, or ready for play on any CD player offering MP3 capability. (Not for use on CD players that only play standard CD formatted discs.).
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Great Discoveries Personal Audio Guides, The Complete Tour of Florence provides todays traveler with a one-of a-kind touring experience that enables them to discover this magnificent city as never before. Easy-to-follow walking tours guide you through the 10 most popular and historically significant attractions. Each attraction has been carefully researched to identify those items considered to be the most important for discussion. Professional narrators guide you along, pointing out the most significant works and describing their historic, cultural, artistic or religious significance, providing the essential information that every tourist wants to know. Period appropriate background music specific to each venue has been added to set ones mood and to help create the most enjoyable and memorable experience possible. MP3 technology along with the accompanying guide maps or building diagrams enables you to spend your time with those items of most interest to you while easily skipping those of little interest. Individual items, or entire rooms, which might at the moment be crowded with tourists, can be easily bypassed and later returned to for a more leisurely visit. These thoroughly entertaining and informative tours guide you through the Baptistery of San Giovanni - 36min, The Duomo (Cathedral di Santa Maria del Fiore) 2hrs 3min, Basilica di San Lorenzo & The Medici Chapel 1hr 24min, Basilica di Santa Maria Novella 1hr 43min, basilica di Santa Croce 2 hrs, the world renowned Uffizi Gallery 4hrs 21min, the Galleria dell Accademia (Michelangelos David) 1hr 12min, the Pitti Palace (including the Palatine Galleries) 3hrs 50min, the Palazzo Vecchio 1hr 43min, and the Piazza della Signoria 1hr 19min. Total playtime 20 hours and 11 minutes. Package contains two CDs and a guide map booklet with building diagrams or maps and a tourist map of Florence..
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