Audio Guide Category: walk

Exploring Detroit’s Historic Fort Wayne

LOCATION: 6325 WEST JEFFERSON, DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48209 PLEASE NOTE: FORT HOURS ARE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 10AM – 4PM, MAY THROUGH OCTOBER. Volunteer-led guided tours ($8) are Saturdays only, 11am and 2pm and may be booked through this link. For…

Coffee And Catch Up

Join Nathaniel and Amelia on a visitation to Robins Nest Emporium as if you’re in their ‘shoes’.

Claude Vigée

Claude Vigée was born on January 3, 1921, in Bischwiller. After finishing his schooling, he undertook studies in medicine. In 1940 he was forced into exile to southwest France, where he participated in the Jewish Resistance, before reaching the United …

The jewish cemetries of Halberstadt

There are three Jewish cemeteries in Halberstadt: Am Roten Strumpf (1644 – early 19th century), Am Berge (19th century) and Klein Quenstedter Straße (from 1895).

The Jewish Community in Halberstadt

Hello and welcome to our tour through the history of the Jewish community in Halberstadt. We will take you to the different places where the community was active. Throughout the tour you will learn about the history of Jewish life in Halberstadt as well…

Jewish Families

Jewish life in Halberstadt was largely normal in the city in the 1920s. Numerous families lived throughout the city and enriched social, economic and cultural life through their activities. This tour introduces some of these families and also describes …

Walk with Hermann Schwab

Hermann Schwab was born in Frankfurt am Main on April 7, 1879. His father, Moses Löb Schwab (1846-1913), sent the commercially trained son to the brass works of the Hirsch family in Eberswalde in 1900. From Eberswalde, Schwab joined the metal works &#8…

The new jewish Halberstadt

Halberstadt’s new Jewish quarter was created by the construction of company houses and villas by the metal trader “Aron Hirsch und Sohn”. The Nußbaum family and the department stores’ owner Willy Cohn also lived here. The m…

Jewish Entrepeneurship in Halberstadt

With the founding of the German Empire in 187, Jews became citizens with equal rights. The Jews in Halberstadt experienced the following period up until World War I as a “Golden Age”. In the streets Schmiedestrasse and am Hohen Weg, business…

EcoArt

Join us on an artistic ecologically awareness tour of Famalicão.

Your walk in Menton

Near the principality of Monaco, on the Franco-Italian border, is Menton, a small French commune in the Alpes-Maritimes. This very touristy seaside resort on the Côte d’Azur is particularly known for its lemon festival and its characteristic…

Niccioleta, a Twentieth Century Mining Village

The original nucleus of Niccioleta was built in the mid-1930s by the Società Montecatini (Montecatini Company), which had discovered an important pyrite deposit in the area. The village takes its name from a rural settlement slightly to the north…

A walk along the Uralsky Arbat

A walk along the Uralsky Arbat  Let’s start, perhaps, with a little information about this street. Its length is about 1.5 kilometers, the pedestrian part is 970 meters. From Anton Valek Street to Kuibyshev Street. Before the revolution the s…

Necropoli della Banditaccia

È una delle tombe ceretane più notevoli, caratterizzata da un breve dromos, due piccole stanzette laterali, e si articola in una grande sala longitudinale con banchine e due colonne poligonali sostenenti capitelli di tipo eolico; il tetto …

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