Tour Manager Notes: Padua

Overview Padua is known as “La Dotta” (The Learned) — its university, founded in 1221, is the second oldest in Italy after Bologna, and still...

Tour Manager Notes: Spanish Customs

The Bullfight Although the English translation of the Spanish term corrida de toros, is bullfight, the ritual is not really a fight.  Correr in Spanish...

Tour Manager Notes: Verona 

Overview  Verona is famous as the setting for the story of Romeo and Juliet and also, today, as the place to go and see spectacular...

Tour Manager Notes: Assisi

Key Dates 1182 Francis born. 1209 Pope authorizes Francis’s religious community. 1221 Franciscan Rules sanctioned by Pope. 1226 Francis dies. 1228 St Francis canonized. c.1296–1304...

Tour Manager Notes: Chiemsee

Overview The “Bavarian Ocean” — Chiemsee — is the largest lake in Bavaria, covering roughly 9¼ square miles. Its shores and islands form one of...

Tour Manager Notes: Gothic Cathedral

How to Build a Gothic Cathedral With 10 People Persons 1 to 6 stand in pairs facing each other. They raise their hands in front...

Tour Manager Notes: Pau

Walking Tour Start your Walking tour at Point A on the map (Place Gramont). Take the street to the right out of the top of...

Tour Manager Notes: Stonehenge

Overview Stonehenge (henge means ‘to hang’) is Europe's most famous prehistoric monument.  Its first recorded history is that of Geoffrey of Monmouth, who was a...

Tour Manager Notes: Venice 

Key dates c. 450 AD – The lagoon is settled as the Roman Empire collapses 697 – Election of first Doge 829 – Relics of...

Tour Manager Notes: Avila

Overview The Castilian city of Avila, situated in the shadow of the Sierra de Gredos, is the finest example in Europe of a medieval walled...