Art in Madrid
- For Friends of the Royal Academy.
- Art history tour with two visits to the Prado plus the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection and the Reina Sofia, home to Picasso’s Guernica.
- Lesser-known places include the Sorolla Impressionist Museum, the Archaeological Museum and Goya frescoes at San Antonio de la Florida.
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5–9 May 2010
5 days •
£1,170
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Art in Madrid
- Guided tour to Spain's capital including two visits to the Prado plus the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection and the Reina Sofia, home to Picasso’s Guernica.
- Lesser-known places include the Sorolla Impressionist Museum, the Archaeological Museum and Goya frescoes at San Antonio de la Florida.
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6–10 October 2010
5 days •
£1,210
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Gastronomic Catalonia
- Eat well, drink well: 3-Michelin-starred lunch, award-winning chefs and quality wine producers.
- Sightseeing ranges from mediaeval to Modernist art and architecture.
- Contrasting bases: the centre of Barcelona and a converted farmhouse outside Figueres.
- This cultural holiday also includes the lesser-visited city of Girona, the Greek and Roman site of Empúries and a day in the northernmost reaches of the region, crossing into France.
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13–19 September 2010
7 days •
£2,580
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Gaudí & The Guggenheim
- First-class architecture in two distinct maritime cities; Bilbao and Barcelona.
- Contemporary and modernist but also important mediaeval works are seen.
- Guided tour to Spain led by the author of ‘Gaudí’.
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19–25 April 2010
7 days •
£1,980
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Granada & Córdoba
- A cultural holiday that gives ample time at the key sites of Moorish Spain: the Alhambra in Granada and the Mosque in Córdoba, with time in both cities for lesser-known sites.
- Visits the Picasso Museum in Málaga and the small Renaissance towns of Ubeda and Baeza.
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8–15 November 2010
8 days •
£2,140
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Kingdoms of Castile & León
- Tour to Spain’s most beautiful cities: Salamanca, Segovia, Avila.
- Architectural magnificence throughout including the cathedrals of Burgos and León. Much fine sculpture as well.
- Walled villages, grand monasteries, hilltop castles and a backdrop of vast, undulating landscape.
- Includes palaces of La Granja (18th-century) and El Escorial (16th-century).
- Good food: suckling pig, slow-roast lamb and kid; good wine of the Ribera de Duero.
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18–27 October 2010
10 days •
£2,180
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Opera in Spain
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Liceu with Ivor Bolton, Diana Damrau, Olga Peretyatko, Christoph Strehl, Norbert Ernst, Christoph Quest, Franz-Josef Selig.
- At Calatrava’s stunning new opera house in Valencia: La Traviata with Lorin Maazel; La Vida Breve and Cavalleria Rusticana (double bill) with Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Jorge de León, Sandra Fernández, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Anna Smirnova, Gevork Hakobyan.
- Performances interspersed with talks on the music by cultural historian, Daniel Snowman, and wine tastings introduced by Catalan wine expert, Linda Hanks.
- Two great Mediterranean cities with a wealth of art and architecture: Moorish ceramics, Catalan Romanesque and Gothic, Gaudí and the modernists, Valencian Impressionism, and buildings by Meier, Moneo, Calatrava, Chipperfield.
- Five-star hotels in both cities, first-class rail between them.
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14–19 April 2010
6 days •
£2,580
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Semana Santa in Spain
- A week of drama, devotion, crowds and fun on this tour to Spain.
- Based in two small towns: Carmona in Andalucía and Zafra in Extremadura.
- Spends a day in Seville to see some of the most renowned processions in Spain.
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29 March–5 April 2010
8 days •
£1,980
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The Pyrenees
- Cultural holiday with a thorough survey of Romanesque and Gothic architecture.
- Delves deep into the Pyrenees but also takes in low-lying and coastal Catalonia.
- Scenically and architecturally stunning, but a lot of driving on minor roads and five hotels.
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4–13 May 2010
10 days •
£2,520
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Walking to Santiago
- The last great pilgrimage route in Christendom which still attracts walkers; scenically wonderful with much fine architecture.
- Tour to Spain including selected sections from the Pyrenees through northern Spain to Compostela.
- Walking in comfort: good hotels; luggage transferred separately; maximum of 15 participants.
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9–20 May 2010
12 days •
£2,830
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30 May–10 June 2010
12 days •
£2,830
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14–25 September 2010
12 days •
£2,830
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