Martin Randall Travel is the exclusive operator of tours for the Friends of the Royal Academy. Full details of the 2010 tours for Friends can be found by clicking on the tours below.
We are also making donations to the Royal Academy for participants on the Music in Palladian Villas music festival.
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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Châteaux of Ile de France
- France tour for Friends of the Royal Academy
- Explore the patterns and interaction of history and design in architecture and gardens.
- Stay within the Jean Jacques Rousseau park and in a hotel a stone’s throw from Versailles palace.
- First-class train travel to Paris.
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11–16 September 2010
6 days •
£1,760
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Connoisseur’s Rome II
- For Friends of the Royal Academy.
- Art history tour concentrating on places which are difficult of access or private.
- Out-of-hours visits to the Sistine chapel and the Galleria Borghese.
- Content mainly Renaissance and Baroque.
- 5-star hotel.
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26–31 March 2010
6 days •
£2,050
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Great Houses of England, I
- For Friends of the Royal Academy.
- The finest country houses and gardens in northern England, from mediaeval to Victorian, with an emphasis on the eighteenth century.
- All aspects of the country house are studied – architecture, furniture, decoration, works of art; gardens and parks; historical context and daily life; conservation and custodianship.
- Unrushed: there is plenty of time to rest, relax and absorb. Only two hotel changes.
- Some of the most glorious countryside in England, plus a few items other than houses.
- Excellent hotels and good food.
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7–16 June 2010
10 days •
£2,690
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Morocco
- For Friends of the Royal Academy.
- From Tangier to Marrakech, including the imperial cities of Fès and Meknes.
- Spectacular landscapes: the Atlas Mountains, valleys, palm groves, woodland, desert.
- See the sun set over the sand dunes at Merzouga and visit the magnificent Roman ruins at Volubilis.
- Quite a demanding tour with some long drives.
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18–29 September 2010
12 days •
£3,240
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Persia
- For Friends of the Royal Academy
- A selection of the most interesting cities, major buildings and achaeological sites in this vast and varied country.
- A tour to Iran suitable either for first-time visitors or for those with some familiarity already.
- The lecturer’s discourse touches on ancient, Islamic and modern Iran, the arts and literature.
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9–23 April 2010
15 days •
£3,220
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Ravenna & Urbino
- For Friends of the Royal Academy.
- The best Byzantine mosaics and the finest Renaissance palaces.
- A Roman city on the plain by the sea and one of the loveliest hilltop towns in Italy.
- Why combine them? Both are somewhat out of the way, yet close to each other.
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13–17 October 2010
5 days •
£1,220
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Torre del Lago
- For Friends of the Royal Academy.
- Puccini operas in the new open-air theatre near his home.
- Based in Lucca with visits to a selection of art and architecture and to places associated with Puccini.
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11–15 August 2010
5 days •
£1,840
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Van Gogh and Dutch Art
- For Friends of the Royal Academy.
- Timed to follow the Van Gogh exhibition at the Royal Academy, January–April 2010.
- Puts the artist’s work in the context of the art and landscapes of his home country.
- Surveys the Golden Age (Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer), Van Gogh’s nineteenth-century milieu and his modernist successors.
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29 June–4 July 2010
6 days •
£1,750
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