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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.

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Opera in Sicily Five performances in historic theatres in beautiful Baroque cities

18 - 24 Oct 2024 £5,440
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Sicily: From the Greeks to the Baroque Temples, churches and palazzi: three thousand years of history

25 Oct - 03 Nov 2024 £4,880
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Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Florentine Palaces Defence, humanism, magnificence and beauty

30 Oct - 03 Nov 2024 £2,860
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