Audio Guide Category: walk

Listening to the Landscape: Walking Through History

Welcome to History in the Landscape at the Ivy Creek Natural Area Our thanks go the Virginia Department of Forestry and the Ivy Creek Foundation for their support of this project. My name is Dede and I have been guiding walks at Ivy Creek for … we…

Irkutsk Itinerary: Pages of the Great Victory

During the celebration of the 75th anniversary of victory in the great Patriotic war, we have prepared an audio guide to the places of military glory of our city. Each monument, square and building that was included in this guide, has a personal history…

Orthodox churches of Irkutsk

The city of Irkutsk, founded in 1661, now belongs to the historical settlements of Russia. The historical center of the city is included in the UNESCO world heritage tentative list, and most Orthodox churches are located in this area. There are about 17…

Gagarin Boulevard, Irkutsk Embankment Cycle

Irkutsk city appearance on boards of Angara river – one of the most spectacular rivers in Eastern Siberia –  is a peculiar event which went along the life of the river itself. It can be said that Irkutsk started from one particular fort…

Irkutsk Routes: Historical Center

Follow this route and you will see all the historically important places of Irkutsk. The route starts with the place where the first cossacks stepped on the shores of the Angara River. Yakov Pokhabov and other cossacks built Irkutsk Ostrog which is cons…

Irkutsk Routes: Along the main streets

Irkutsk is situated in the Eastern Siberia on the shores of the Angara River. Historical Center of the city begins near the walls of Spasskaya Church. Epiphany Cathedral’s domes are near this church, as well as the monument to city’s first p…

Castellaneta in tour

CASTELLANETA is a city and common in the province of Taranto, in the APULIA region of southern ITALY, about 40 km from Taranto. Located in a territory spanningfrom the Murgia to the ianon sea,  caracterized by numerous ravines (similar to canyon). …

Sea and ground

The Sicilian territory presents a wealth not only from an architectural, cultural but also from a naturalistic point of view. There are wild spots, natural reserves, woods, mountains and expanses of agricultural fields. Not for this we belong to the Med…

Temple of Segesta

This audioguide will accompany you in the exploration of the Doric temple of Segesta, at the discovery of its essence. Rather than to base the story on a list of historical and architectural informations we have prefered to give central importance to yo…

Inglese

Established by the Sicilian Region, the Archaeological Park of Selinunte, with an extension of about 270 hectares, is one of the largest and most extraordinary archaeological sites in the Mediterranean. It is an expression of classical civilization, and…

Thames River Heritage Park: Life on Groton Bank

When the Pequots built a palisaded village on top of the ridge, perhaps as earlier native peoples had done, this would have been a wooded area, with small, stony beaches between granite ledges. With fish and shellfish along shore, game in the woods, and…

Thames River Heritage Park: The Navy and Groton Bank

Naval connections to this river go back to the very beginnings of an American navy. At the start of the American Revolution, Connecticut outfitted its own state navy, and its several ships, including the Spy, Defense, and Oliver Cromwell sailed out of t…

Thames River Heritage Park: Whaling and Groton Bank

The Massachusetts ports of Nantucket and then New Bedford established whaling as a principal New England maritime industry. While we support the conservation of these huge, intelligent creatures, whales were then seen as a resource whose insulating blub…

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