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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The programme was full but still gave enough time for independent activities and relaxation. Just the right balance between travel and sight seeing. Good choice and order of sites. "
Classical Greece - The Peloponnese, Attica and Athens
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The lecturer and tour manager were excellent with their wide knowledge and ease of answering any questions thrown at them. "
Morocco - Cities & empires
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I have thoroughly enjoyed all the MRT tours I have been on. It is the attention to detail – nothing is left to chance. There is always an alternative if something proves to not be possible. Everyone is so helpful and obliging. I always feel so relaxed on a MRT holiday. The quality of the hotels, meals and visits but especially the music or opera. It is just fabulous. "
Baroque & Rococo - In Southern Germany