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Rick Steves on the iPhone

Rick Steves' iPhone Apps are personal tour guides for your iPhone or iPod Touch. These interactive, multimedia guides will lead you on walking tours straight from the pages of Rick Steves' best-selling travel guidebooks. Numbered points on the map correspond with recommended tour sights. Spin the compass icon to switch views between sights, hotels, restaurants and WCs along your route.

Tap any point to read Rick's detailed information on the sight, including history and suggested viewpoints. Tap the Info tab of any sight, hotel, restaurant for more details — including cost, hours, address, and phone number. The zoom feature on the interactive map helps you get a closer view of streets, landmarks, and other points of interest.

A pull-down audio player lets you listen to Rick talk about each section of the tour, and videos provide more detailed information about the sights.

Once downloaded, these Rick Steves apps are completely self-contained on your iPhone or iPod Touch, so you won't incur pricey roaming charges in Europe.

Available Applications

Note: You will need to have iTunes installed on your computer in order for the following links to work.

Rick Steves' Louvre Tour

This tour guides you through the best of the Louvre Museum, including Greek and Roman statues, Medieval alter pieces, ancient artifacts, and French Romantic and Italian Renaissance paintings. You'll view such famed pieces as the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa and get an interactive history lesson.

Rick Steves' Historic Paris Walk & Tour

This tour guides you through the best of historical Paris, including Notre-Dame, Saint-Chapelle, Medieval Paris, St. Séverin, the Latin Quarter, and the Pont Neuf, Paris' oldest standing bridge. Your tour ends where Paris began — on the Seine River — the perfect place to relax after a long day of walking.

Rick Steves' Orsay Museum Tour

This tour guides you through the art of the Musée d'Orsay with in-depth coverage of the museum's wings of Conservative Art, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Primitives, and Art Nouveau. You'll view famed works by Whistler, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Van Gogh (to name a few).

Rick Steves' St. Peter's Basilica Tour

This tour guides you through the best of this grand church, including the basilica's atrium, nave, main altar, apse, and the history of Pope John XXIII and St Peter's Square. Cap off your tour with a climb to the dome where you'll take in a spectacular view of Rome and Vatican City.

Rick Steves' Versailles Tour

Trace history's royal footsteps as Rick guides you through the best of Versailles including the Royal Opera House, the Chapel, the King's and Queen's Wings, and the Hall of Mirrors. You'll bask in the expansive Greco-Roman themed Gardens and visit the the Domain de Marie-Antoinette.

Rick Steves' Ancient Rome Tour

Rick highlights the best of Ancient Rome, taking you through the Colosseum's exterior and interior, under the Arch of Constantine, and into the Forum's Main Square. See the temple of Julius Ceaser, the Curia (Senate House), Caligula's Palace on Palatine Hill, and much more.

 

For more information contact: iphonesupport@ricksteves.com

Rick Steves iPhone and iPod Touch applications were created by Übermind, a Seattle-based software consultancy firm, and Avalon Travel, the publisher of Rick Steves' European guidebooks.