Pompeii, steel engraving c. 1850.
Cultural tours in Italy
Using lecturers pre-eminent in their field, and exerting our influence where it counts – to gain out-of-hours visits to the Sistine Chapel in Rome and to the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, for example – our small-group tours of Italy do full justice to an incomparably rich cultural heritage.
We also offer fresh perspectives on old friends, using art historians, not musicologists, on our opera tours of Verona and seeing Florence, Padua and Bologna through the prism of science and medicine as well as art.
We bring you Puccini at the maestro’s lakeside villa, the mosaics of Ravenna and the frozen worlds of Pompeii and Herculaneum. We dine finely in Piedmont, throw light on the Dark Ages in the northern Adriatic and stand at the crossroads of European civilisations in Sicily. We gaze up at Michelangelo’s David and down at Etruscan tombs. We give you Italy, packaged in a gilt-edged portfolio.
Featured tours and events in Italy
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I loved every minute, even though we visited many places we did not seem rushed – the pace was perfect. "
Normans in the South - Castles and cathedrals in Puglia, Basilicata and Campania
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Trip of a lifetime. "
Art in Texas - Outstanding collections in city and desert
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Freddie Matthews made the trip very special. Having two local archeologists at Angkor added even more to my understanding of the sites. This was the only trip that I have ever found with six nights and days at Angkor. "
Cambodia by River - From the Mekong Delta to the city of Angkor