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A Food-Lover’s guide to The Grove and West Third, Los Angeles

If you want to hang for an afternoon and do what a typical Angelino does, The Grove and West Third Street are for you. It’s in what’s called the Fairfax District, only five minutes by car from Museum Mile, and it’s where everyone goes, mostly to e…

Water Museum of Venice: The wild Po of Maistra

The itinerary takes us through the wide and sinuous twists and turns of the Po di Maistra, one of the various branches of the Po river, among thick vegetation, water birds and splendid waterways. Immersed in peaceful silence, you will have the opportuni…

Water Museum of Venice: 2000 years of history in the Po Delta

Thanks to the many marks left by humans on the landscape, this itinerary will allow us to witness and understand the evolution of the population, from Roman times to the period of the integral reclamation. Human signs have been built up in layers, and y…

Oberlin Service Men and Women

This tour, originally created by the Oberlin Heritage Center in 2017 as a guided tour, was meant to not only remember and commemorate those who sacrificed and died in service, but to honor all of the men and women who have served in the military branche…

Oberlin’s African-American Community: Historic Groveland

Oberlin College was founded in 1833 and the community quickly formed around it.  Free and fugitive, African-Americans came to Oberlin.  Some only stopped here, others stayed and made their home. The southeast quadrant has historically housed t…

Oberlin College: The First Century

Oberlin College was founded in 1833.  This tour introduces visitors to the College’s early history, including the founders’ decisions to admit women alongside men and to admit blacks  alongside whites.  The tour also discusses…

History of the Schools of Oberlin

The founding of the Oberlin Colony and Oberlin Collegiate Institute occurred in 1833, and just one year later the Oberlin Public Schools were founded, which represents the priority this infant community placed on education. A mass meeting of the citizen…

Oberlin History Highlights-A Short Introduction

This short tour, taking 15-20 minutes to complete, introduces the history of Oberlin, including its religious inspiration, its abolitionist commitment and its attention to the education of women.  It was co-created for the Coalition for Oberlin His…

Lorain Historical Walking Tour

The City of Lorain Historical Architecture Tour was created by the Lorain Historical Society and features over 30 stops along a 1.6 mile loop. Each marker includes architectural history as well as interesting history about the life and use of the buildi…

The Lorain Tornado Tour

On June 28, 1924 an F4 tornado touched down in Sandusky and Lorain, taking a total of 85 lives and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. This tour was developed as part of the 95th anniversary commemoration in 2019. The stories from that torn…

Entertaining Aldershot: Music Halls, Theatres and Cinemas

This on-line virtual tour takes the visitor around the sites of some of the old music halls, theatres and cinemas of Aldershot town, giving an insight into the story of how the population of Aldershot has been entertained over the last 165 years. Follow…

Walking around the City Walls

The historical walls of Senigallia are an identity monument of the city, although they are less known. Of the ancient fortified walls, both the sixteenth-century one of Guidobaldo from the Rovere, and the eighteenth-century one of the “Ampliamento…

Cupramontana; visit to the historical center

The origins of Cupra Montana date back to the sixth and fifth centuries BC, and are named after a temple that stood there, dedicated to the goddess Cupra, a deity venerated by the Picenes for fertility and love. Originally, the Picenes were the ones who…

Senigallia Mini Tour

This tour will accompany you through the most rilevant places of the city. Starting from the Rotonda sul Mare, symbol of the unchained ‘50s, we will do a travel backwards the history going through Reinassence cort’s intrigues, on the romans …

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