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Alsace
- Architecture, art and history around the Upper Rhine in France and Germany. Mediaeval and Early Modern periods predominate.
- Exceedingly lovely towns and villages, amid lush landscapes of vineyards, rolling farmland and wooded hills.
- Stay in one hotel throughout, a beautifully restored 16th-century Alsatian Inn.
- Rail travel from London to Strasbourg by Eurostar and TGV.
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30 August–6 September 2011
8 days •
£2,320
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Armenia
- Monasteries and other sacred buildings from as early as the 7th century.
- Outstanding mountainous landscape.
- Time to get to know Yerevan, with its squares, cafés and street-life.
- Flight schedules change frequently on this route and we recommend you keep diaries clear for 24 hours at either end of the tour.
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15–22 June 2011
8 days •
£2,490
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Caravaggio
- Unhurried appreciation of the finest painter of the Italian Baroque, in the company of his foremost biographer.
- Sixteen Caravaggio canvasses in all: eleven in some of Italy’s greatest art museums, four in their original chapels, and one in private hands.
- First class rail travel between Milan and Rome.
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17–23 October 2011
7 days •
£2,760
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Country House Weekend
Ardgowan, Renfrewshire
Details available in September 2010. Register your interest now.
This series of tours has a unique distinguishing feature. Participants are not accommodated in a hotel. You stay as house guests in a privately owned country house, a great historic building filled with fine furnishings and works of art. Most of the visits on the daytime excursions are to other country houses, also privately owned and often open rarely to the public.
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Country House Weekend
Kentchurch Court, Herefordshire
Details available in September 2010. Register your interest now.
This series of tours has a unique distinguishing feature. Participants are not accommodated in a hotel. You stay as house guests in a privately owned country house, a great historic building filled with fine furnishings and works of art. Most of the visits on the daytime excursions are to other country houses, also privately owned and often open rarely to the public.
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29 September–3 October 2011
5 days •
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Damascus & Aleppo
- Quite unjustifiably neglected, Syria has the finest antiquities and cities of any country in the Levant.
- Fine early islamic art and architecture, major Roman remains (Apamea and Bosra) and the pilgrimage site of St Simeon.
- Stay in ‘boutique’ hotels in Damascus and Aleppo, both within walking distance of most monuments.
- Flight schedules change frequently on this route. We recommend you keep diaries clear for 24 hours either side of these dates.
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22–30 December 2010
9 days •
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Gardens of Tuscany
- Wonderful range of gardens from Early Renaissance to 20th-century, several visited by special arrangement.
- Hotels in central Florence and Siena with free time to explore both cities.
- Ideal time of year to see Tuscany in bloom.
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28 May–4 June 2011
8 days •
£2,640
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Gastronomic Sicily
- Discover the colourful street markets of Palermo; visit authentic salt flats near Trapani and historic cellars in Marsala.
- Learn about making wine, olive oil and artisan foods from the craftsmen and women who carry on these age-old traditions.
- Explore many types of food: street food in Palermo, hand-made pastries in Erice, country vegetable cooking on an organic farm and some of the Mediterranean’s freshest seafood.
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3–10 May 2011
8 days •
£2,370
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History of Impressionism
- The finest collections of Impressionism in France, and places associated with the artists.
- Visit the recently renovated Impressionist galleries of the Musée d’Orsay.
- Stay in Rouen for four nights and Paris for one. Superior-class rail travel by Eurostar.
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21–26 September 2010
6 days •
£1,660
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4–9 September 2011
6 days •
£1,660
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Iran: The North West
- A journey through lesser-known Iran; west and north of Tehran, to Tabriz and beyond.
- With a topography as varied as it is vast; time on the road is as much a part of this tour as the sites.
- Dramatic and changing landscapes, from volcanic mountains to the Caspian sea.
- Much fine architecture: mosques, mausoleums, an Armenian church, sacred coronation sites.
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13–24 September 2010
12 days •
£3,180
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5–16 September 2011
12 days •
£3,320
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