Baroque & Rococo
- Some of the most uplifting and spectacular buildings in the world.
- Glorious countryside, unspoilt towns and villages.
- Option of combining with The Danube Music Festival
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22–30 August 2008
8 days •
£1,750
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Beethoven in Bonn
- Artists include the French National Orchestra, Andreás Schiff, the Capella Andrea Barca and Kurt Masur.
- Includes some of the many museums of this former capital city and a day in Cologne.
- First-class rail from London to Cologne.
- Good 4-star hotel overlooking the Rhine in Bonn.
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4–11 September 2008
7 days •
£2,300
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Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden
- For Friends of the Royal Academy
- Studies the former capitals of Brandenburg-Prussia and Saxony.
- Both have immensely rich holdings of fine & decorative arts and architecture.
- Rebuilding and restoration continues to transform both cities.
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5–12 September 2008
7 days •
£1,780
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Berlin: New Architecture
- Europe's biggest concentration of contemporary architecture.
- The list of architects virtually comprises a roll-call of the world's leading architectural practices.
- Access to private places, and time for some of the standard sights.
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5–8 June 2008
3 days •
£940
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Dresden & Meissen
- Once one of the most admired cities in Europe, rebuilding and restoration has reached a peak,
- Dresden has outstanding art collections and fine 18th- & 19th-century architecture.
- Rebuilding and restoration continues apace, and there is fine new architecture as well.
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3–9 June 2008
6 days •
£1,490
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Dresden Festspiele
- Four concerts and recitals in four historic buildings and Otello at the Semperoper.
- Accompanied by an art historian who leads walks to see the architecture and art collections
- Rebuilding, restoration and refurbishment has wrought wonders in this once shattered city.
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17–22 May 2008
5 days •
£1,450
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Mitteldeutschland
- A trawl through little-known and largely unspoilt towns at the heart of Germany.
- Great mediaeval churches, Baroque and Neo-Classical palaces, enchanting streetscape, fine art collections, beautiful countryside.
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22–30 August 2008
8 days •
£1,590
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Rhineland Romanesque
- The Rhineland at a peak of power and prosperity produced some of the most adventurous and sophisticated architecture of the Romanesque age.
- Small parish churches and great cathedrals, city and country, buildings, paintings and precious metalwork.
- Intensive and wonderfully rich study tour, though quite a lot of travelling, by rail and coach.
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16–22 August 2008
6 days •
£1,470
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Schloss Grafenegg Festival
- Three orchestral concerts and a recital in the grounds of a country house in the Wachau region. Orchestras include the London Baroque Soloists with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre de Paris with Christoph Eschenbach.
- Soloists include Christine Schäfer, Mark Padmore and Piotr Anderszewski.
- Excursions with an art historian.
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27 August–1 September 2008
5 days •
£1,960
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Strauss In Munich
- Four Richard Strauss operas in one of the world’s finest houses: Arabella, Ariadne, Elektra, and Salome.
- Walks and drives to see art and architecture.
- Plenty of free time.
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22–27 July 2008
5 days •
£1,980
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