Tour Manager Notes: Versailles

Key Dates 1638 – Louis XIV born 1661 – Fouquet’s party; Louis’ personal rule begins; Versailles started 1682 – Court moves to Versailles 1715 –...

Tour Manager Notes: Belgium

Overview As a country, Belgium often suffers from prejudice and misconception. Europeans frequently blame their woes on “Brussels,” and many overseas visitors have only the...

Tour Manager Notes: Bristol

Quotes “The Bristol of 2002 is alive and well and kicking like a can-can girl.” — Sunday Telegraph “Bristol is by far and away south...

Tour Manager Notes: French Kings

Key Dates - Dynasties 450 – 754 – MEROVINGIANNB Clovis (481 – 511) 768 – 987 – CAROLINGIANNB Charlemagne (769 – 814) 987 – 1328...

Tour Manager Notes: Munich

Key Dates 1158 – Munich founded by Henry the Lion. 1255 – Munich becomes an Imperial City. 1504 – Munich established as capital of the...

Tour Manager Notes: Santiago & Burgos

Key Dates 1638 — Louis XIV born 1661 — Fouquet’s party; Louis’ personal rule begins; Versailles started 1682 — Court moves to Versailles 1715 —...

Tour Manager Notes: Vienna

Overview Population: 1.6 million Formerly Vindobona, one of the most important Roman settlements along the Danube. Grew into a city when the Babenberg family moved...

Tour Manager Notes: 18th Century Fashion

Overview When we talk of “The Fashionable” we mean the influential and the rich. But Bath was the great leveller of society. Here would be...

Tour Manager Notes: Canterbury

Overview The city of Canterbury, with its great cathedral, is the foremost ecclesiastical site in England and the spiritual capital of the Anglican/Episcopalian Church. Historically...

Tour Manager Notes: Geneva

Overview Geneva is a city of paradoxes: at once a world capital of diplomacy and human rights, a centre of finance and precision industry, and...