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France Tours
Exploring art, archaeology, gastronomy, music and much more, our small-group tours to France are meticulously planned and led by expert, companionable lecturers. We offer a selection of tours to France that enjoy the country’s incomparably rich history, such as Roman & Mediaeval Provence, Poets & the Somme or Mediaeval Burgundy. Similarly, the country’s extraordinary artistic heritage is enjoyed in French art tours like The History of Impressionism, Art on the Côte d’Azur, and Mediaeval Stained Glass. With a host of other guided tours to France, including Châteaux of the Loire, Gardens of the Riviera and The Orange & Aix Music Festivals, that visit towns and regions as widespread and diverse as Alsace, Paris, Bordeaux and Nice, we provide rewardingly in-depth experiences of this wonderful country.
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.
- First-class rail travel by Eurostar from London and good hotels in both cities.
French Gothic
- Perhaps the most coherent and consistently excellent group of great buildings in Europe.
- The key monuments in the development of Gothic, with a whole day for Chartres.
Modern Art on the Côte D'Azur
- Europe’s greatest concentration of classic modern art, in a setting of idyllic scenery and pretty towns.
- Renoir, Bonnard, Braque, Léger, Miró, Giacometti, Cocteau, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso.
- Stay in Nice throughout, in a comfortable 4-star a short walk from the Promenade des Anglais.
Brittany
- A new tour for 2012.
- Brittany’s landscapes captured and cultivated: gardens, châteaux and historic towns.
- Some of the finest prehistoric sites in Europe.
Matisse & his World
- A new tour for 2012.
- Specially devised to visit the exhibition Matisse: Odds and Evens at the Centre Pompidou.
- Visit Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Matisse’s birthplace in the Pas-de-Calais region and site of a Museum largely devoted to the artist.
Mediaeval Burgundy
- Superb collection of Romanesque and early Gothic buildings.
- Exceptionally well-preserved historic towns.
- Rural drives through beautiful landscapes.
Roman & Mediaeval Provence
- The South of France in the Middle Ages.
- Considers the Roman and Early Christian influence on mediaeval sculptors and builders.
- A natural setting of exceptional attractiveness.
Opera in Paris
- Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles; Prokofiev’s L’Amour des Trois Oranges; Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie.
- Three contrasting venues: Opéra Comique, Palais Garnier and Opéra Bastille.
- Two guided visits to places of musical interest but otherwise plenty of free time between lectures and performances.
The Battle of Waterloo
- A study of the most written-about battle in history, and of one of the best-preserved battlefields.
- Prefaced by visits to Crécy and Agincourt.
Opera at Aix
- One of Europe’s finest summer music festivals.
- Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with Le Cerle de l’Harmonie and Les Arts Florissants under Jérémie Rhorer.
- A chamber version of Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, accompanied by piano duet, flute and cello.
I loved the inclusion of Le Mans and the fact that we stayed right in the centre of the two main towns. The contrast of city with countryside and big churches with small ones was very enjoyable.
All arrangements within the control of Martin Randall were faultless.What a paragon of a lecturer. All of his talks were so very informative and full of fascinating detail.
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