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Architecture Tours

Our architecture tours celebrate great buildings as monuments and as dwelling-spaces, as works of engineering and works of art, and as vital components in a city’s mythos. Some tours follow particular themes, or even single architects, others survey a broader range of buildings, the best that the region has to offer. All our small-group tours are led by expert lecturers, chosen for their companionability and communication skills as well as their scholarship.

Israel & Palestine

Israel & Palestine

  • Some of the most important and evocative archaeological sites in the western hemisphere.
  • Ancient and mediaeval and modern architecture, from Herod to Bauhaus, Jewish, Roman, Christian and Islamic.
  • Enthralling streetscape and vernacular architecture in ancient walled towns, varied landscapes from rocky deserts to verdant valleys.
7–16 Feb 2012
10 days
£3,550
16–25 Oct 2012
10 days
£3,660
Connoisseur's Rome

Connoisseur's Rome

  • Concentrates on places which are difficult to access or private.
  • Out-of-hours visits to the Sistine Chapel and the Galleria Borghese.
  • Content mainly Renaissance and Baroque.
9–14 Feb 2012
6 days
£2,450
Music in Berlin

Music in Berlin

  • Excellent collections of fine and decorative arts and first rate architecture.
  • Accompanied both by a musicologist and an art historian to lead walks and visits.
  • Includes tickets to Eugen Onegin, Marriage of Figaro and Masked Ball, the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
14–19 Feb 2012
6 days
£2,380
Florence: Cradle of the Renaissance

Florence: Cradle of the Renaissance

  • Best place for an art-history tour – highly influential art, wonderful architecture.
  • The Renaissance occupies centre stage; mediaeval and other periods are not ignored.
  • Smaller group than usual.
20–26 Feb 2012
7 days
£1,980
12–18 Nov 2012
7 days
£2,040
The Art History of Venice

The Art History of Venice

  • Wide-ranging survey of art and architecture with an emphasis on the Renaissance.
  • Private after-hours visit to San Marco.
  • Avoids the crowds of busier months, lower maximum number than most of our tours.
16–22 Mar 2012
7 days
£2,260
Granada & Córdoba

Granada & Córdoba

  • Ample time at the key sites of Moorish Spain: the Alhambra in Granada and the Mosque in Córdoba, with time also for the lesser-known.
  • Visits the Picasso Museum in Málaga and the small Renaissance towns of Úbeda and Baeza.
19–26 Mar 2012
8 days
£2,350
21–28 Apr 2012
8 days
£2,350
Sicily

Sicily

  • Covers the whole island, including the main sights and many lesser known ones.
  • The whole gamut – Ancient Greek, Roman, mediaeval (particularly Norman), Renaissance, Baroque and later.
  • A full tour but carefully paced. Hotel changes kept to a minimum – only three hotels in thirteen days.
14–26 Mar 2012
13 days
£3,860
19–31 Mar 2012
13 days
£3,860
24 Sep–6 Oct 2012
13 days
£3,860
14–26 Nov 2012
13 days
£3,860
Normans in the South

Normans in the South

  • Splendid Romanesque architecture, largely built by Norman conquerors.
  • Also later mediaeval buildings from the Hohenstaufen and Angevin dynasties, with moments of later flamboyant Baroque.
  • Attractive town centres and striking raw limestone landscapes.
20–28 Mar 2012
9 days
£2,170
9–17 Oct 2012
9 days
£2,210
Gastronomic Andalucía

Gastronomic Andalucía

  • Journey south from Las Pedroñeras in La Mancha in a sweeping curve through Andalucía: Ubeda, Baeza, Córdoba, Seville, Jerez, Cádiz, Aracena.
  • Surveys the history of the region with its cuisine: Roman, Jewish, Moorish, Christian; from the simplest cooking to the elaborate and contemporary.
  • Some of Spain’s greatest monuments are here including the mosque at Córdoba and Seville Cathedral, but also good museums, small towns and spectacular countryside.
23–30 Mar 2012
8 days
£2,890
The Heart of Italy

The Heart of Italy

  • An excellent introduction to the art and architecture of the region.
  • Art and architecture of Umbria and some of Tuscany (the Marches are not included).
  • One of our longest established and most popular tours, constantly updated.
24–31 Mar 2012
8 days
£2,100
16–23 Sep 2012
8 days
£2,100
TESTIMONIALS
This was probably the best organised and most enjoyable holiday I have experienced.
We appreciated the way the lecturer took time to get to know everyone and deal with questions and particular interests.
A good balance between free time, sightseeing and lectures. I particularly enjoyed the chance to see Handel’s birthplace.

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Egypt tours

Meticulously planned and led by expert, companionable lecturers, our small-group tours to Egypt explore Egypt's many remarkable archaeological sites, such as Luxor, Abu Simbel, Denderah and Giza.
 

Expert Lecturers

The tour leaders on our small-group tours are academics and specialists in art, architecture, archaeology, gastronomy, history or music as well as good travel companions.

Italian tours

Our small-group guided tours to Italy visit the most renowned culturally- and historically-rich cities, such as Florence and Venice and lesser-known towns and regions, like Lucca and the Venetian Hills. 

Music Festivals

MRT’s all-inclusive classical music festivals combine world-class performers–Andreas Scholl, The Gabrieli, Natalie Klein–in sensational venues –Basilica di San Marco, Château de Versailles,– and concerts are exclusive to MRT clients.

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