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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.
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.
Palladian Villas
- A survey of nearly all the villas designed by Andrea Palladio (1508–80).
- Stay throughout in Vicenza, Palladio’s home town and where he built many palaces.
- With many special appointments, the itinerary would be impossible for independent travellers.
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.
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.
Poets & the Somme
- First World War poetry in the context of the Battle of the Somme and the lives (and deaths) of the poets.
- A presentation of the poetry through a study of events, landscapes and the wartime lives of individual poets. An actor reads the poems.
Cave Art of France
- A new tour for 2012.
- This tour encompasses some of the most important Prehistoric caves in Europe including Lascaux II, Peche Merle and Niaux.
- Great art, whatever its function or the ‘artist’s’ intention, in an area of outstanding natural beauty with charming villages.
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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