Italy Travel Guides & Audio Tours

Rome 3 Walks - Italy

There is so much to see and do while in Rome. Your Cities in Sound Tour Guides make sure that you see it all the not to miss sites and are left with ever lasting memories of a fun and informative personal tour of Rome. More

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Accademia Galleria Venice Italy

The Accademia Galleries of Venice Italy contains an unparalleled collection of paintings from the Venetian masters of the 13th through the 18th centuries. Five hundred years of Venetian art are displayed in the Galleries, which for consistency, clarity of More

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Ancient Rome iJourneys Italy

Rome travel guide with a map. Walk where victorious Roman Emperors celebrated their Triumphs.See where Gladiators fought and died. Explore The Coliseum, The Roman Forum, Capitoline Hill, The prison, The Arch of Titus, The Vestal Virgins More

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ASSISI Italy's Great Basilicas

Assisi travel guide with a map. On this stunning tour learn about the artists and religious figures who made history along with the prayers and legends of St. Francis, one of the most revered persons in Christianity. More

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Baptistery of San Giovanni Florence Italy

The Baptistery is a building that is beautiful to look at, both inside and out, a masterpiece of architecture whose beginnings date back to antiquity. Like many holy places in Europe, there is no way of telling exactly how long the Baptistery has been revered. More

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Basilica of Santa Croce Forence Italy

The Basilica of Santa Croce is a light and airy unique blend of styles and thought. The sun filters through the many stained glass windows, playing multi-hued rays along one of the greatest repositories of Renaissance art and sculpture. More

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Bologna Italy Audio Guide

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Ca d Oro Palace Venice Italy

Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the Ca' d'Oro or Golden Palace provides today's tourist with the most entertaining and informative way to visit this late Gothic palace on the Grand Canal. The Ca' d'Oro is one of the most charming buildings in Venice More

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Ca Rezzonico Palace Venice Italy

This huge sumptuous palace, which took its name and luster from the Rezzonico family, was actually built by the aristocratic scholar and Procurator Filippo Bon, the patriarch of the noble Bon family. In 1751 Giambattista Rezzonico, the head of an originally Lombard family, assumed the costs and prestige of the building. More

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Doge Palace Venice Italy

Doge is an old Venetian word derived from the Latin dux, meaning 'leader, which specifically applied to the chief magistrate of the Republic for over 1,000 years. One hundred and twenty doges reigned between 697 and 1797. More

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Duomo Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

Great Discoveries Audio Tour will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit, Florence's spectacular Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, known throughout the world as simply the Duomo. More

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Florence Italy Audio Guide

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Florence MP3 City Guide

We'll start at the duomo Florence's vast Cathedral and tell you not only how the magnificent dome was created but how this remarkable piece of engineering was one of the corner stones of the Renaissance. More

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Florence Renaissance Jewel ijourneys

Florence travel guide with a map. Wander through Renaissance delights and Medieval alleys, exploring the distinctive Duomo, Dante's Church, See the Gates of Paradise, the Ancient Baptistry,Ponte Vecchio, the Old Bridge that's spanned the Arno River for More

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Galleria Accademia Forence Italy

Great Discoveries Audio Tour will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit the Galleria dell' Accademia, today famous for its sculptures by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Four Prisoners, the St. Matthew, the Pieta di Palestrina and specifically the renowned statue of David. More

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In the Footsteps of Da Vinci

Join our very own Symbologist, and you'll soon be following in the footsteps of Leonardo Da Vinci from the Louvre to Milan where he lived and worked, and onto London and Edinburgh in search of the Holy Grail, Newton's Tomb, and the Knights Templar. More

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Naples Italy Audio Guide

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Old Rome iJourneys Italy

Rome travel guide with a map. Explore this 2,000 Year-Old City, the Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, the remains of ancient Temples, where Julius Caesar was assassinated, a Michelangelo sculpture in Rome's only Gothic church, a Renaissance Palace More

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Ostia Journey to the Iic A.D

In this exceptional walking tour through the ruins, you’ll be guided down the Decumanus Maximus by Gaius Vezius Optatus, a taxi driver in ancient Rome. He’ll introduce you to a host of characters who lived there, from the hydraulic engineers of the baths More

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Palazzo Vecchio Florence Italy

Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the Palazzo Vecchio will provide you with the best way to tour this striking building located on the Piazza della Signoria. It has been the home of Florentine government since the early 14th century. The palace with its clock tower and ramparts is a symbol of the power, influence, and strength of the family that built it. More

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Perugia Assisi Italy

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Piazza della Signoria Forence

Great Discoveries self guided audio tour will provide today's tourist with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit Florence Italy's most important public square, the Piazza della Signoria. The piazza has been the political heart of the city from the middle ages to the present day. More

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Pitti Palace Florence

Great Discoveries self guided audio tour of the Pitti Palace provides today's tourist with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit Italy's most majestic palace. Lavishly decorated and fully furnished, it remains one of the most extraordinary residences in the world, undoubtedly the grandest of all Renaissance palaces. More

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Podtour of Baroque Rome I

Rome travel guide with a map. Starts at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, created by Michelangelo out of the baths of the emperor Diocletian.We visit churches by Bernini and Borromini, the fine Cornaro chapel with the statue of Saint Theresa More

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Podtour of Baroque Rome II

rome travel guide with a map. Starts at the church of the Ges, and takes the back roads to Piazza Navona, ending up at the Fontana di Trevi. On the way we visit a fine set of paintings by Caravaggio, get acquainted with some of Rome's talking statues. More

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Podtour of Florence Santa Croce

Florence travel guide with a map. From the old prisons of the Medici in the Bargello we make our way to the Franciscan church of Santa Croce, and Brunelleschi's marvellous Pazzi Chapel, which embodies the values of the early Renaissance More

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Podtour of Florence Italy East

Florence travel guide with a map. We visit the two centres of the Renaissance city - the sacred centre with the baptisteryFlorentine sun and cathedral, and the centre of government, Piazza della Signoria. More

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Podtour of Florence Italy West

florence travel guide with a map. We visit the west of the city, from Piazza Santa Trinit to gothic church of Santa Maria Novella, and finally to Michelangelo's Medici mausoleum - visiting Renaissance palaces on the way. More

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Podtour of Medieval Rome

Rome travel guide with a map. This is your chance to find some undiscovered corners of the city. We start at the little church of Santa Pudenziana, and end up on the Aventine Hill, fitting in a temple to Mithras and one of Rome's most peaceful cloisters More

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Podtour of Rome's Imperial Forums

Rome travel guide with a map. With this audio guide, we'll help you imagine the ruins as they would have been in their heyday - and we'll show you how the Imperial buildings were re-used in the Middle Ages to build fortresses and strongholds. More

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Podtour of Venice San Marco to San Zanipolo

Venice travel guide with a map. San Marco to San Zanipolo takes you from the great basilica and the Doge's palace, at the centre of the city's life, to the fine gothic pantheon of the Doges and finally to a tiny Renaissance jewel, Santa Maria dei Miracoli More

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Podtour of Venic the Cannaregio district

venice travel guide with a map, This tour visits - the ghettocity, the working class district of the Cannaregio. There aren't many palaces but there's a surprising number of marvellous churches, from the medieval Gothic Madonna dell'Orto to the baroque More

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Pompeii City Frozen in Time iJourneys

pompeii travel guide with a map. Walk the ancient streets preserved when ash rained down from Mount Vesuvius, marvel at the mosaics, visit the baths, Amphitheatres, a bakery and a brothel, view plaster casts of the citizens and where Gladiators fought More

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Rome Spanish Steps Piazza Navona

As you walk down the Spanish Steps we'll explain why the Pope at the time they were built was so unenthusiastic about them and also why the fountain at the bottom looks like it's sinking. We'll point out the Keats-Shelley Museum and talk about the Romanti More

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Rome Pantheon Temple of the Gods

The Pantheon was built as a Temple for all the gods. The 2000 year old structure with its opening at the center is a breathtaking stop on any trip to Rome More

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Rome Vatican Trastevere

After the crowds and noise of St Peters, walk with us down the calm, pretty Via Giulia and learn how it came to be built against the odds. We'll explain the macabre history of Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte and then lead you into the elegant Palazzo More

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Rome Italy Audio Guide

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Rome Spanish Steps to Trevi Fountain

rome travel guide and free map. Italy is about style and this walk has it all: Film locations, designer shopping, artists working away in their studios and coffee amongst the Canova's statues. Starting at the Spanish Steps More

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Rome The Ancient City

Take this travel guide audio tour as you travel the ancient city of Rome and stroll through the key historic sights of the oldest part of the city including the Roman Forum and the great Colosseum. This tour is designed help you make sense of the rubble a More

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Rome The Forum

Rome travel guide and free map. The spiritual heart of one of the greatest civilisations the world has known. Let us bring life to the jumble of abandoned columns and broken masonry which romantically fill the Forum today More

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Rome The Heart of Rome

rome travel guide and free map. Magnificent palaces, statues, sparkling fountains and Italians driving, shouting, gesturing and drinking coffee! Join them as you wander through theatrical squares and little cobbled streets More

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San Lorenzo Basilica Florence

Great Discoveries audio tour of the Basilica of San Lorenzo (St. Lawrence) will provide today's tourist with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit this 15th century Italian Renaissance masterpiece, which was designed by the greatest of all Florentine architects Filippo Brunelleschi. More

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Santa Maria della Salute Venice

Great Discoveries audio tour provides today's tourist with the best way to visit the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, the most brilliant architectural jewel in the Venetian crown and a soaring baroque structure unlike any other. More

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Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari Venice

Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari provides today's tourist the most enjoyable and informative way to visit one of the most beautiful Gothic churches in Italy. The Frari, also known as Santa Maria Assunta, is the mother church for Venice's Franciscan Order and one of the Venice's most important monuments. More

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Santa Maria Novella Florence

Great Discoveries audio tours will provide you with the most entertaining and informative way to visit the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, one of the most picturesque churches in all of Florence and the mother church of the Florentine Dominican Order. More

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Scuola Grande di San Rocco Venice

Great Discoveries Audio Tour of Scuola Grande di San Rocco offers today's tourist the most enjoyable and informative way to visit this striking 16th century Renaissance building. The Scuola is a unique museum that is so incredibly impressive that its works of art, set off by gold gild trim More

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Siena Italy Audio Guide

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St Marks Basilica Venice

Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the St. Mark's Basilica offers today's tourist the most informative and entertaining way to visit this unique edifice, which has majestically dominated Venice's grand square, the Piazza San Marco, for over 900 years. More

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TORINO Majestic and Magical City

torino travel guide with a map. An informative and entertaining walking tour of Turin, Italys first capital city. Youll discover the Majesty & Magic of Baroque Turin, with Amedeo Castellamonte, Chief Architect to the Dukes of Savoy and their Madame Royale More

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Trento Roveretto Audio Guide

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Uffizi Gallery Florence

Great Discoveries audio tour of the Galleria degli Uffizi will provide today's tourist with the most entertaining and enlightening way to visit the one of the world's truly great art galleries. This magnificent gallery, commonly known as simply the Uffizi, is home to a collection of Medieval and Renaissance paintings by some of the most hallowed names in Italian and European art. More

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Venice iJourneys

Venice travel guide with a map. Floating palaces, misty canals and Gondolas, the astounding Piazza San Marco, glowing mosaics, the Doges' Palace with it's torture chambers, a Palace made of Marble lace, Revel in the most spectacular views from the Rialto More

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Venice MP3 City Guide

We'll guide you through the narrow, winding streets and along the canals past most of the city's most stunning churches and art galleries and through its picturesque squares. We'll show you the most beautiful monuments - and perhaps the ugliest! More

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Venice The Floating City

Take this travel guide audio tour with you to explore the floating city of Venice. This romantic city is like none other. Built on an island lagoon, the city began as a refuge from the invading Huns who swept through Italy in the 5th century More

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Sister Wendy's Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica

Sistine Chapel guide with a map. Lovingly narrated by Sister Wendy, you'll open your eyes and your heart to the magnificent wonders of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Ceiling, and be immersed in the intense spirituality that permeates St. Peter's More

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Why Audio Tours?

You can embark on a sightseeing adventure with a Italian audio tour at anytime. Be guided by the best local travel experts, no need to book ahead or waste time researching tourist information. All the hard work has been done for you. Discover Italy with an audio tour the fun way, your way and at your own pace.

Value for Money!

Italy Audio tours are considerably cheaper than guided tours and the bonus is that you won't be herded around in a crowded tour group!

Download and Go...

Just choose an audio tour, download it for your ipod or mp3 player print the map and you are ready to go exploring Italy and be entertained by your own personal guide.

Look like a Local

While sightseeing Italy's attractions with your ipod / mp3 audio guide, everyone will be convinced that you're strolling around Italy like you know it like the back of your hand. So leave those bulky books behind, dump the annoying large tour groups, and see the sight of Italy at your own pace.

Go Green!

The Go Green initiative is the beginning of an important new shift in the way we treat our world. Unlike a traditional guidebook, no trees were cut down to make your Italian audio tour and it will never go into landfill. You'll also limit your carbon emissions as most of our guides are walking tours.