Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour of the San Lorenzo Basilica in Florence, Italy.
Great Discoveries audio tour of the Basilica of San Lorenzo (St. Lawrence) will provide today's tourist with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit this 15th century Italian Renaissance masterpiece, which was designed by the greatest of all Florentine architects Filippo Brunelleschi. Generations of Medici, Florence's wealthiest and most powerful family, put some of the world's greatest artists to work here, men like Michelangelo, Donatello and Filippo Lippi. This was their family church and for over three-hundred years generations of the great and not so great Medici were buried here in the opulent Medici Chapel.
Don't be put off by San Lorenzo's facade of antique brickwork. It belies the treasures you will find hidden inside. As you enter San Lorenzo Basilica you will notice the sense of peace and serenity that is created by the marvelous balance and proportion of the building. Brunelleschi, who had just submitted his model for the dome of the Duomo, proposed this new style of church that is absolutely symmetrical in its design and flooded with light, not mystically shrouded in half light as had been the precedence. It is widely regarded as one of the city's purest Renaissance churches and was the very first church in this style to be built in the city.
The basilica's crowning jewel is Michelangelo's New Sacristy, the heart of the Medici Chapel and a fatal attraction for thousands of visitors each year. Michelangelo spent over 14 years of his life designing and building the New Sacristy, which contains the tomb of the greatest of all the Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent. Visitors will also view the Laurentian Library, Italy's most important library, built by Michelangelo to house the Medici century's old collection of 15,000 precious books, papyri and manuscripts.
Our carefully researched tour guides you through the Basilica, the Medici Chapel, Michelangelo's New Sacristy and the Laurentian Library. Along the way our professional narrator, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, points out and describes the most significant works of art and other historic treasures contained therein. Shatter your idea of history, throw down your guidebook and venture off to see and hear the stories behind this resplendent church, the Medici, and the great Renaissance artists who crafted this unique edifice
Guides are recorded in easy to follow segments that are readily located your iPod. This 1 hour and 24 minute 18 track, audio tour is designed to work with an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your iPod.
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Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour of the San Lorenzo Basilica in Florence, Italy.
Great Discoveries audio tour of the Basilica of San Lorenzo (St. Lawrence) will provide today's tourist with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit this 15th century Italian Renaissance masterpiece, which was designed by the greatest of all Florentine architects Filippo Brunelleschi. Generations of Medici, Florence's wealthiest and most powerful family, put some of the world's greatest artists to work here, men like Michelangelo, Donatello and Filippo Lippi. This was their family church and for over three-hundred years generations of the great and not so great Medici were buried here in the opulent Medici Chapel.
Don't be put off by San Lorenzo's facade of antique brickwork. It belies the treasures you will find hidden inside. As you enter San Lorenzo Basilica you will notice the sense of peace and serenity that is created by the marvelous balance and proportion of the building. Brunelleschi, who had just submitted his model for the dome of the Duomo, proposed this new style of church that is absolutely symmetrical in its design and flooded with light, not mystically shrouded in half light as had been the precedence. It is widely regarded as one of the city's purest Renaissance churches and was the very first church in this style to be built in the city.
The basilica's crowning jewel is Michelangelo's New Sacristy, the heart of the Medici Chapel and a fatal attraction for thousands of visitors each year. Michelangelo spent over 14 years of his life designing and building the New Sacristy, which contains the tomb of the greatest of all the Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent. Visitors will also view the Laurentian Library, Italy's most important library, built by Michelangelo to house the Medici century's old collection of 15,000 precious books, papyri and manuscripts.
Our carefully researched tour guides you through the Basilica, the Medici Chapel, Michelangelo's New Sacristy and the Laurentian Library. Along the way our professional narrator, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, points out and describes the most significant works of art and other historic treasures contained therein. Shatter your idea of history, throw down your guidebook and venture off to see and hear the stories behind this resplendent church, the Medici, and the great Renaissance artists who crafted this unique edifice
Guides are recorded in easy to follow segments that are readily located your iPod. This 1 hour and 24 minute 18 track, audio tour is designed to work with an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your iPod.
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