This guide offers the history-and art-loving traveler 12 narrative tours of Venice using audio CDs alongside easy-to-follow maps, detailed diagrams of churches, and helpful information about how to get around. With more than 12 million tourists spending a day or less in the city, time is of the essence. Two guided audio CDs allow independent travelers the freedom to go at their own pace, picking and choosing what they want to see and when they want see it. Each carefully selected tour--whether through the famed St. Mark's Square or other sites often overlooked by the busy traveler--brings to life the city's rich history and heritage with fascinating stories about historical figures, artists, and musicians. Included is a comprehensive historical and artistic time line and glossary."