The park of Nymphenburg Castle

Price: $11.00

Location: The history of Nymphenburg Palace and the park pavilions
City: Munich
Country: Germany
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 65 min speech, 2,5 h tour
Class: Walking
Date Created: 7/26/2007
File Size: 61.24 MB
Tracks: 41
Attachments: Pdf file with list of titles and overview plan. A detailed plan is shown on several places in the park itself.
Description: This audio tour is mentioned to be a supplement for your traveler guide. Visit the Rondel, hear something about the history of the palace, and view the pavilions Amalienburg, Badenburg, Pagodenburg and the MagdalenenKlause. A tour through the palace itself is not included, because there exist an separated tour, which you can rent in the palace itself. For the tour to have to spend about 2,5 hours time. Please remember, that from 16 Octover - 31 March the park, but only the Amalienburg is opened. The other pavilons are closed during winter time.

Italy’s Great Basilicas

Price: $5.00

Location: Giotto's Scrovegni Family Chapel
City: Padua/Padova
Country: Italy
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 18 min
Class: General
Date Created: 7/26/2007
File Size: 7.12 MB
Tracks: 1
Attachments:
Description: Considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Giotto, the artist who single-handedly heralded in the Renaissance, you will hear about each of the paintings which make up the first private family chapel ever built in Italy, and its importance in the history of Art.

Temple of the Gods

Price: $5.00

Location: Pantheon
City: Rome
Country: Italy
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 20
Class: General
Date Created: 7/26/2007
File Size: 31.77 MB
Tracks: 8
Attachments:
Description: Arguably the most important building in the History of Architecture, 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.

Italy's Great Basilicas

Price: $15.00

Location: Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
City: Assisi
Country: Italy
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 68 min
Class: Walking
Date Created: 7/26/2007
File Size: 27.03 MB
Tracks: 34
Attachments:
Description: For visitors to one of the most spiritual places on earth -- the 'Hill of Heaven' where Saint Francis was buried and where Giotto worked to create one of the most breathtaking fresco cycles in the history of Art.

Civil War to Civil Rights: Downtown Heritage Trail

Price: $0.00

Location: Washington, DC

City: Washington, DC

Country: United States

File Type: MP3

Language: English

Time Length: 1hr 60 min

Class: Walking

Date Created: 7/25/2007

File Size: Not Found

Tracks: 18

Attachments: pdf map

Description: Surround yourself with sound as you walk the Civil War to Civil Rights: Downtown Heritage Trail through historic Penn Quarter. Cultural Tourism DC's audio tour adds the magic of sound and dramatization to the words and pictures of the trail's Center Loop. Relive dramatic events, including: * The night President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater * The hustle and bustle of the old Center Market * A riot following the attempted escape of 77 enslaved people * Clara Barton's search for thousands of missing Union soldiers * Thurgood Marshall's fight to desegregate American Institutions The self-guided audio tour starts at Sign 1, across Seventh Street from the National Archives, just south of Pennsylvania Avenue. Metro: Archives/Navy Memorial. From there you'll proceed north on Seventh to F Street, across F to 10th Street, and then south on 10th back to Pennsylvania Avenue. Plan on about 45 minutes to walk the one-mile loop through city streets. Want to explore further? Check out more sights and sounds Downtown.

Andrew van Bunnik

Price: $12.00
Location: New Zealand
City: 27 cities, towns and regions
Country: New Zealand
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 70
Class: General
Date Created: 7/11/2007
File Size: 68.72 MB
Tracks: 29
Attachments:
Description: A highlight tour of New Zealand with two introductry tracks and 27 tracks covering cities, towns and regions including: Northland, Bay of Islands, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Rotorua, Taupo, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, Christchurch, Akaroa and Dunedin. All the exciting and beautiful places are covered in over 70 minutes. The history of places are covered as well as the things to see and do.

BYU Library Audio Tour

Price: $0.00
Location: Brigham Young University
City: Provo
Country: United States
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 27:42
Class: College Campus Tour
Date Created: 7/19/2007
File Size: 12.53 MB
Tracks: 1
Attachments: PDF map
Description: The library audio tour must be taken in the library. The tour begins in the Learning Resource Center (LRC) on the south end of the 4th level of the library. The tour will help you to become more familiar with library resources and their locations and will help you to become a more efficient researcher.

Audio Tour of the Consortium Library

Price: $0.00
Location: University of Alaska Anchorage
City: Anchorage
Country: United States
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 19 min, 6 sec
Class: College Campus Tour
Date Created: 7/19/2007
File Size: 37.91 MB
Tracks: 13
Attachments: no map
Description: You can check out an audio tour of the Library at the Circulation Desk. This half-hour tour introduces the Library and its collections and services.

Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles and Sideshows

Price: $0.00

Location: Melbourne
City: Melbourne
Country: Australia
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 51:22
Class: Walking
Date Created: 7/18/2007
File Size: 23.40 MB
Tracks: 1
Attachments: pdf maps
Description: 774 ABC Melbourne invites you to put on your walking shoes, turn on your MP3 player and discover Melbourne's secrets with the ABC Melbourne Podtours: Eat, Drink Melbourne, Death, Dirt & Disease and Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles and Sideshows. Whether you are a visitor to the city or a born and bred local, you'll be surprised at the stories you'll uncover in Melbourne's hidden lanes and historical buildings. Join Derek Guille, Jon Faine and Red Symons as they guide you through the sights, sounds and smells of Melbourne town with the free audio tours that you can download to your MP3 player. The tours are a co-production with the University of Melbourne's Cultural Heritage Unit. Presented by Red Symons and Myf Warhurst from triple j. From a death-defying dip in the Yarra to the decadent brothels of the late 1800s, Red Symons takes you on a tour of some of the strangest spectacles and sauciest celebrity stories that Melbourne has seen on the Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles & Sideshows podtour of the city. Highlights Include: * Houdini's dive into the Yarra chained and padlocked * Where Kung Fu master Jackie Chan threw a bad guy through a shop window * The lanes that served for purgatory for Nicholas Cage in Ghost Rider * The 1920s race to build the first and most exotic picture palace Route: From Federation Square take a short stroll across to the Arts Centre before paying a visit to the Regent Theatre, up Exhibition Street to the 'Little Lon' red-light district and on to the reputedly haunted Princess Theatre.

Death, Dirt & Disease

Price: $0.00

Location: Melbourne
City: Melbourne
Country: Australia
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 47:33
Class: Walking
Date Created: 7/18/2007
File Size: 21.79 MB
Tracks: 1
Attachments: pdf map
Description: 774 ABC Melbourne invites you to put on your walking shoes, turn on your MP3 player and discover Melbourne's secrets with the ABC Melbourne Podtours: Eat, Drink Melbourne, Death, Dirt & Disease and Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles and Sideshows. Whether you are a visitor to the city or a born and bred local, you'll be surprised at the stories you'll uncover in Melbourne's hidden lanes and historical buildings. Join Derek Guille, Jon Faine and Red Symons as they guide you through the sights, sounds and smells of Melbourne town with the free audio tours that you can download to your MP3 player. The tours are a co-production with the University of Melbourne's Cultural Heritage Unit. Presented by Jon Faine. WARNING: This podtour includes descriptions of crimes and events that some listeners may find confronting. Please choose a different podtour to download if you think you may be offended by such content. Join Jon Faine on an exploration of the macabre side of Melbourne. There are dead bodies being pulled out of the Yarra, coroners counting maggots and nightmen dumping bedpans on flowerbeds. Under every glistening, stylish sophisticated city (and Melbourne's certainly one of those) there lies a long tale of grime and crime. This tour about what's waiting for you if it all goes wrong. Highlights Include: * The story of the Gun Alley murder. * Early sewers and waste disposal in a burgeoning city. * The decapitated head on display outside the city morgue. * The unique way that coroners determine the time and cause of death Route: Starting at Federation Square, through the hidden laneways up to Russell Street, past the old police station and along Lygon Street to conclude at the Exhibition Buildings in the Carlton Gardens.

Eat, Drink Melbourne

Price: $0.00

Location: Melbourne
City: Melbourne
Country: Australia
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 60 min
Class: Walking
Date Created: 7/18/2007
File Size: 27.45 MB
Tracks: 1
Attachments: pdf map
Description: 774 ABC Melbourne invites you to put on your walking shoes, turn on your MP3 player and discover Melbourne's secrets with the ABC Melbourne Podtours: Eat, Drink Melbourne, Death, Dirt & Disease and Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles and Sideshows. Whether you are a visitor to the city or a born and bred local, you'll be surprised at the stories you'll uncover in Melbourne's hidden lanes and historical buildings. Join Derek Guille, Jon Faine and Red Symons as they guide you through the sights, sounds and smells of Melbourne town with the free audio tours that you can download to your MP3 player. The tours are a co-production with the University of Melbourne's Cultural Heritage Unit. Presented by Derek Guille with food writer Stephanie Alexander. Let Derek Guille take you on an exploration of Melbourne's culinary hotspots as Eat, Drink Melbourne takes in the great eating and drinking sites of today and decades past, interspersed with cooking hints from Stephanie Alexander. Highlights Include: * The story of Australian food icons, like Vegemite, the Freddo Frog, and the Dim Sim, which were all invented in Melbourne. * The site where the Prince Alfred caused Melbourne's biggest food-fight involving 100,000 Melburnians. * Rollicking yarns about Melbourne's famous pubs and vineyards. * Stephanie Alexander's advice on how to select a good cheese or cut of meat. Route: Starting at Federation Square this podtour winds through the lanes and arcades of the inner city to Chinatown and the Greek precinct to finish up at that foodies haven, the Queen Victoria Market.

Rio de Janeiro - Ipanema, Copacabana, Centro

Price: $12.00

Location: Ipanema, Centro, Tijuca, Copacabana, Urca, Flamengo and more
City: Rio de Janeiro
Country: Brazil
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 39
Class: General
Date Created: 7/16/2007
File Size: Not Found
Tracks: 23
Attachments: zip file includes 23 mp3 audiofiles and jpg map
Description: This audiofile includes a detailed map with 23 audiofiles about interesting things to see and to do in marvellous city Rio de Janeiro. I start with Ipanema and Tijuca and go to Copacabana and Centro. Hear why people call Rio the most wonderful city on earth and why Rio attracts so many visitors through the whole year.

Price: $7.00

Location: Las Ramblas

City: Barcelona

Country: Spain

File Type: MP3

Language: English

Time Length: 53:03

Class: Walking

Date Created: 7/11/2007

File Size: 24.54 MB

Tracks: 12 Attachments: Included in the zip file are plain text instructions and a pdf map.

Description: Let's get ready to Rambla! On this tour, we take you down Barcelona's most famous promenade, La Rambla, as we uncover the history of Barcelona from tapas to bottom. Learn how a dried up riverbed (Rambla in Arabic) grew to become one of the liveliest streets in the world and the symbol of a city rejuvenated. Here you can experience all the flows of daily life in Barcelona and let yourself drift on a sea of sights, sounds and smells as we fill in the details to help make sense of the rich pageant that is La Rambla. Major stops include the sprawling Boqueria Food Market, the Grand Teatre de Liceu, the palm tree-laden Placa Reial and the Palau Guell, Antoni Gaudi's original masterpiece and an early example of Spanish art nouveau. The tour finishes along the shores of the Mediterranean at Barcelona's renovated Port Vell. It was here that Christopher Columbus first set foot upon returning from the new world and marks the end the Rambla strolled by Columbus and countless others - Picasso, Joan Miro, Einstein, George Orwell, Cervantés, Pablo Neruda and now...it's your turn. Ramble on!