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Writers’ Florence - Visitors, residents & exiles: literary lives & literature
- Florence has a remarkable place in the history of English literature as so many important writers visited the city or lived here.
- See places they frequented and inhabited, which inspired them and which they described.
- Attention is also paid to American, French and German writers, and to great Italians.
- Led by a literary historian and by an actor who reads relevant passages in pertinent places.
- In 2011, the opportunity to combine the tour with the Festival of Music in Florence, 23–28 October.
Mentioned below are other holidays that fall either side of this one. If you would like to book two or more holidays in a row, it will be your responsibility to make your own way between them, however we are happy to offer advice if necessary. The exceptions are tours that are specifically offered as 'pre-festival' or 'post-festival' tours – for these we provide a transfer between tour and festival where needed. Please note that our online booking process allows for only one tour to be booked at a time so please contact us if you would like to book more than 1 tour or music festival.
Gastronomic Piedmont
- Piedmont is one of the most prestigious and arguably the most exciting gastronomic region of Italy.
- Study wine and food production with the growers and makers, enjoy tastings and have meals in an excellent range of restaurants.
- Beautiful landscapes: upland pasturage, rolling hills, sloping vineyards and hazelnut woods.
Genoa & Turin
- Two grand cities in north-western Italy, unaccountably neglected by tourists.
- Great art and architecture from mediaeval to Baroque, particularly rich in palaces.
Naples
- Selects the best of the art, architecture and antiquities in Naples.
- Performance of Puccini’s La Bohème at the recently restored Teatro San Carlo.
- Also visits the palaces and gardens at Caserta.
Pompeii & Herculaneum
- Perhaps the most exciting tour possible dealing with Roman archaeology.
- The two principal sites buried by the ad 79 eruption of Vesuvius plus Greek Paestum and the Naples Archaeological Museum.
- Lesser-visited sites such as Cumae and Pozzuoli.
Villas of the Veneto
- Studies villas from the beginning of the Renaissance to the end of the 18th century.
- Palladio’s most famous works are included.
- Some time also for a choice selection of delightful little towns.
Writers’ Venice
- A new tour for 2012.
- Great figures of English, American and Italian literature in Italy’s most inspirational of cities.
- Visit places they frequented and inhabited, which inspired them and which they described.
The visits and trips were very varied and excellently chosen. I was thrilled by every minute of it.
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