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Barcelona Art & Culture
Barcelona is where Europe goes to play. She’s a city that sparkles and fizzes, making the world watch just to see what she’ll do next. Plunge straight into her buzzing heart and discover just how Barcelona became Barcelona with this remarkably in-depth app by two old pros who have been writing about the city for decades.
Find out moreVenice Art & Culture
This enhanced, greatly expanded and updated version of Facaros and Pauls’ Cadogan guide to Venice offers an in-depth exploration of history, art and culture for any who want more than factoids and sound bites.
Find out moreFlorence Art & Culture
Whether you only have a couple of days to visit Florence’s museums, or want to spend a vacation seeking out every single work by Donatello or every Medici villa, this is the app for you. The 400 entries cover not only the tourist sights, but also the biographies of the artists, sculptors, architects and writers who changed the history of the western art and thought from Masaccio and Michelangelo to the most obscure.
Find out moreGreek Islands
This app is the culmination of over 40 years travelling and writing about the Greek islands. It covers all the inhabited Greek islands (and some fascinating uninhabited ones), bringing out their unique personalities, history, mythology, their archaeological and historical sites, their beaches, gorges, mountains, and waterfalls (yes, there are some!), their beautiful villages and churches.
Find out moreBologna + Modena Art & Culture
It’s an uncanny brown apparition on the misty Emilian plain, a city of a billion bricks and a thousand arcades, sheltering under a pair of tipsy, lofty medieval towers. Bologna may be the odd duck of Italian art cities, but no one can deny its geeky charisma. This is the city of learned doctors and Formula One speedsters, of promenaders under graceful porticos and platoons of ladies in furs, gliding serenely down the avenues on their bicycles.
Find out moreItalian Food Decoder
Whether you’re a first time visitor to Italy or a hopelessly smitten foodie, this app will help you navigate the extraordinary world of Italian food—and make sure when you're in a restaurant, you get what you want.
Find out moreFrench Food Decoder
The perfect companion for any English speaker visiting or living in France, with over 1,260 entries full of fascinating background info and anecdotes accumulated over the author’s 30 plus years of living in France.
Find out moreGreek Food Decoder
There’s far more to Greek cuisine than gyros, moussaka, and baklava. There are gogkes, ambelofasoula, and stamnagathi! And what’s the name of that beautiful fish that the waiter has just presented for your inspection? A sargos, skaros and a thrapsalo?
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