Finding Dante in Florence: A Walking Tour
Learn more about Dante as we walk through Florence. Tread the same streets and see the same sites as the great poet…
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Step into Jane Austen’s Bath… (the city – not the tub). This self-guided walking tour leads you through the streets she knew, the places she lived and the world that found its way into her novels.
Learn more about Dante as we walk through Florence. Tread the same streets and see the same sites as the great poet…
“Night Nurse Needed – Should be young and pretty.” This was the ad Henri Matisse placed in 1942…
Could reading Jane Austen calm a troubled soul? Maybe. After World War I, her books were prescribed for soldiers suffering from PTSD…
It’s not unusual for angels to adorn a church, but on Bath Abbey the angels are climbing on ladders and some of them are even upside down…