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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It was an honour to be part of an audience in such auspicious surroundings. We were essentially provided with a divine and memorable week and a sense of individual achievement. Thank you so much. "
The Divine Office: Choral Music in Oxford - A unique event of exceptional musical intensity and spiritual potency
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Excellent information given and care taken to ensure special exhibitions were included. "
Flemish Painting - From van Eyck to Rubens: Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels
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I had the most happy and exciting eight days of my life. "
Essential Jordan - Nabataean, Roman, Christian and Islamic sites