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Martin Randall Travel

View a complete list of cultural tours and events for 2020 and 2021, or browse by month using the buttons below.

 

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Ancient Greece In the British Museum

03 Dec 2020 £205
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Dresden at Christmas Art, architecture & music in the Saxon capital

21 - 27 Dec 2020 £3,210
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Siena at Christmas Art and architecture in Southern Tuscany

21 - 27 Dec 2020 £3,040
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Siena, Cathedral, watercolour by W.W. Collins, publ. 1911.
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Prague at Christmas Music, history, art and architecture

21 - 27 Dec 2020 £3,120
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Christmas in Holland Art and architecture of the Golden Age

21 - 27 Dec 2020 £3,030
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Amsterdam, the fish market, copper engraving c. 1760.
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Provence at Christmas The essence of Mediterranean France

21 - 28 Dec 2020 £3,280
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Avignon, Palais des Papes, aquatint by Sir Francis Barry.
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Milan at Christmas Italy’s northern capital

21 - 27 Dec 2020 £3,010
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Vienna at Christmas Art and architecture in the Habsburg capital

21 - 27 Dec 2020 £3,240
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Vienna, Karlskirche.
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Christmas in Western Sicily Art, archaeology & architecture in Palermo and its vicinity

21 - 28 Dec 2020 £3,190
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Palermo, detail from the mosaics in the Palatine Chapel, engraving c. 1880.
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Paris at Christmas Great exhibitions and entertainment in the Ville Lumière

22 - 27 Dec 2020 £2,810
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Mozart in Salzburg The annual winter festival

25 - 31 Jan 2021 £4,320
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The Ring in Dresden Wagner in Saxony’s historic capital

28 Jan - 04 Feb 2021 £4,210
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Wagner’s Ring in London Jurowski and the LPO in the Royal Festival Hall

05 - 11 Feb 2021 £3,390
Valkyries, engraving 1883 by A. Becker.
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Palaces & Villas of Rome From Empire to Papacy: the power of magnificence

08 - 13 Feb 2021 £2,770
Gardens of the Villa Borghese, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1905.
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Essential Rome The complete spectrum of art, architecture & antiquities

09 - 15 Feb 2021 £2,980
Rome, Trevi Fountain, watercolour by C.T.G. Fornilli, publ. 1927.
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Opera in Paris Mozart, Strauss, Verdi

20 - 25 Feb 2021 £3,210
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Israel & Palestine Archaeology, architecture & art in the Holy Land

02 - 11 Mar 2021 £5,450
Jerusalem, Mosque of Omar, watercolour by Phoebe Allen, publ. 1913.
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Florence & Venice The finest and best-known art and architecture in the Western world

08 - 15 Mar 2021 £3,190
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Eastern Andalucía: Caliphs to Kings Málaga, Granada, Úbeda, Jaén, Córdoba

15 - 24 Mar 2021 £3,270
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Venetian Palaces The greatest and best-preserved palaces of La Serenissima

16 - 20 Mar 2021 £2,610
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Essential Puglia Cultural sites in the heel of Italy

23 - 30 Mar 2021 £2,680
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Music in Berlin Art, architecture & music in the German capital

25 - 29 Mar 2021 £2,490
Berlin, Staatsoper, copper engraving c. 1750.
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The Elias String Quartet Basically Beethoven

26 - 28 Mar 2021 £860
The Elias String Quartet, ©David Shapiro.
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Ravenna & Urbino Byzantine capital, Renaissance court

07 - 11 Apr 2021 £1,710
Ravenna, Mosaics in S. Apollinare, 20th-century engraving.
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Romans & Carolingians Germany from Augustus to Charlemagne

07 - 14 Apr 2021 £2,870
Cologne, early-19th-century aquatint.
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Gastronomic Andalucía Food, wine, art and architecture

09 - 16 Apr 2021 £3,510
Jerez de la Frontera, engraving 1713.
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Classical Turkey Greeks & Romans in Anatolia

12 - 21 Apr 2021 £3,780
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Pompeii & Herculaneum Antiquities of the Bay of Naples

12 - 17 Apr 2021 £2,290
Pompeii, watercolour by Frank Fox, publ. 1915
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: 3,000 years of creativity

12 - 24 Apr 2021 £4,910
Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Gardens & Villas of the Veneto Renaissance to recent in & around Padua, Verona & Vicenza

13 - 19 Apr 2021 £2,780
Padua, Church of St Anthony, after a drawing by Inglis Sheldon-Williams in ‘A Dawdle in Lombardy’, 1928.
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Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity Archaeology, history, art & landscape

14 - 23 Apr 2021 £2,840
Berat, lithograph 1851 by Edward Lear.
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Gastronomic Provence

La cuisine du soleil, history and art in the South of France

15 - 22 Apr 2021 £3,720
Avignon, cathedral, lithograph c. 1850.
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William Howard & The Carducci String Quartet Schubert & Dvořák

16 - 18 Apr 2021 £860
The Carducci String Quartet, © Tom Barnes.
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

16 - 27 Apr 2021 £4,470
Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Cornish Houses and Gardens Landscapes, flowers, buildings and art

17 - 25 Apr 2021 £2,920
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Monet & Impressionism Paintings and places in Paris and Normandy

18 - 23 Apr 2021 £2,360
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Palladian Villas The greatest house builder in history

20 - 25 Apr 2021 £2,380
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 18th-century-engraving.
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The Cathedrals of England Ely, Lincoln, Durham, York, Coventry, Gloucester, Bristol, Wells, Salisbury, Winchester

21 - 29 Apr 2021 £2,840
Durham Cathedral, engraving in The English Provinces, 1888.
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Madrid & Toledo Cities of Empire

23 - 30 Apr 2021 £2,790
Toledo, the Tagus and Bridge of St Martin, wood engraving c. 1870.
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Courts of Northern Italy Princely art of the Renaissance

25 Apr - 02 May 2021 £2,480
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Opera in Vienna Mozart, Wagner, Gounod

26 - 30 Apr 2021 £2,910
Vienna, Theater an der Wien, late-19th-century wood engraving.
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Basilicata & Calabria Italy’s undiscovered south

01 - 09 May 2021 £3,160
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Extremadura Landscape, history and food in rural Spain

06 - 15 May 2021 £3,230
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St Petersburg Pictures and palaces in the imperial capital

07 - 14 May 2021 £3,310
St Petersburg, Winter Palace, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Classical Greece The Peloponnese, Attica & Athens

08 - 17 May 2021 £3,580
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Cave Art of France Prehistory in the Dordogne

10 - 17 May 2021 £3,060
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Great Irish Houses Country houses both sides of the border

10 - 18 May 2021 £4,090
Castle Coole, chromolithograph c. 1880.
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Traditions of Japan Art, crafts, history, society

10 - 22 May 2021 £6,940
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The Western Balkans Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina & Montenegro: history past and present

10 - 23 May 2021 £5,360
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Gardens & Villas of Campagna Romana From formal to frivolous in spectacular settings

10 - 15 May 2021 £2,520
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Medieval Heart of Portugal Romanesque and Gothic architecture

10 - 16 May 2021 £2,460
Portuguese Muleteer, engraving c. 1820
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

14 - 25 May 2021 £4,210
Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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New English Gardens & RHS Chelsea Exuberant design & planting schemes at the cutting edge

14 - 19 May 2021 £2,590
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Polyphony in Portugal A festival of glorious choral music in the churches and chapels of the beautiful and remote Alentejo

16 - 21 May 2021 £2,800
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Leipzig Mahler Festival The decennial celebration of Mahler’s orchestral works

17 - 24 May 2021 £3,980
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Footpaths of Umbria Walks, art & wine between Arezzo & Assisi

17 - 24 May 2021 £2,810
Assisi, St. Francis, by Frank Fox publ. 1915.
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Textile Collections in Russia with HALI St Petersburg & Moscow

21 - 29 May 2021 £4,560
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Gardens of Sintra Lisbon and the Portuguese Riviera

23 - 27 May 2021 £2,770
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Moving on: Architecture & Memory Bauhaus to the present in Stuttgart, Ulm and Munich

25 - 31 May 2021 £2,870
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Two Spains: The Spanish Civil War & its Aftermath Madrid, Priorat, Barcelona

26 May - 03 Jun 2021 £3,260
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Southern Tuscany The Sienese Contado & the Val d’Orcia

27 May - 02 Jun 2021 £2,190
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Walking to Santiago On foot for selected sections of the pilgrims’ way

01 - 12 Jun 2021 £3,680
Burgos Cathedral, Capilla del Condestable, steel engraving c. 1850.
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Frank Lloyd Wright and the Chicago School

04 - 15 Jun 2021 £6,320
Fallingwater, photograph courtesy of Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
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Medieval Burgundy Abbeys & churches of the high Middle Ages

05 - 12 Jun 2021 £2,910
Autun, wood engraving c. 1860.
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Gastronomic Le Marche Food, wine, art & hilltop towns in undiscovered Italy

07 - 14 Jun 2021 £3,090
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The Venetian Land Empire A spectrum of north-east Italy’s finest art & architecture

07 - 16 Jun 2021 £3,670
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Gastronomy & the Golden Age Food, art & architecture from Belgium to the Netherlands

12 - 19 Jun 2021 £4,090
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Great Swedish Houses Royal residences, country estates and provincial palaces

14 - 20 Jun 2021 £3,390
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Walking to Derbyshire Houses Magnificent countryside and great country houses

14 - 19 Jun 2021 £2,270
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Music along the Rhine Outstanding music, beautiful countryside and historic towns along Germany’s principal river

15 - 22 Jun 2021 £3,340
W. Turner, 'On the Rhine', c. 1830, ©Sotheby’s / akg-images
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Walking the Rhine Valley Concerts & hikes through woods, fields & vineyards

15 - 22 Jun 2021 £3,120
Speyer, copper engraving c. 1700.
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Gardens in the Highlands Horticulture and garden design in northern Scotland

19 - 27 Jun 2021 £3,260
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Medieval West Midlands Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Oxfordshire

21 - 25 Jun 2021 £1,480
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Gastronomy & the Golden Age Food, art & architecture from Belgium to the Netherlands

26 Jun - 03 Jul 2021 £4,090
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Finland: Aalto & Others 20th-century architecture & design

01 - 09 Jul 2021 £3,490
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Gastronomic Friuli-Venezia Giulia Superb food and wine in Italy’s less frequented north east

05 - 11 Jul 2021 £3,130
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French Gothic The great cathedrals of northern France

05 - 11 Jul 2021 £2,460
Chartres Cathedral, steel engraving c. 1840.
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‘A terrible beauty’ Ireland and the Troubles 1916–1998

09 - 14 Jul 2021 £1,860
Political mural in Bogside, Derry-Londonderry, Photo courtesy of Tourism Northern Ireland.
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Opera in Munich Haydn, Wagner, Verdi

10 - 14 Jul 2021 £3,290
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Hindsgavl: Chamber Music in Denmark Intimate and immersive performances in beautiful surroundings

17 - 23 Jul 2021 £3,270
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Orkney: 5,000 years of culture Neolithic, Iron Age, Viking, present day

24 - 30 Jul 2021 £2,090
Kirkwall, steel engraving c. 1850
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The Hanseatic League Cities and Abbeys of Germany’s Baltic Coast

12 - 19 Aug 2021 £2,910
Lübeck, Town Hall, engraving from 'Leaves from a Sketchbook', c. 1890.
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King Ludwig II and the Wittelsbach palaces of Bavaria

15 - 20 Aug 2021 £2,680
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Walking the Danube Concerts & country walks

20 - 26 Aug 2021 £3,120
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The Danube: Celebrating Beethoven A musical voyage along Europe’s longest and loveliest river

20 - 27 Aug 2021 £3,310
The Danube: Celebrating Beethoven
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The Schubertiade Music & mountains in the Vorarlberg

21 - 27 Aug 2021 £3,830
Schubert, German engraving c. 1870.
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Mitteldeutschland Weimar & the towns of Thuringia & Saxony-Anhalt

29 Aug - 06 Sep 2021 £2,820
Arnstadt, steel engraving c. 1850
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Maritime England Royal Navy and Merchant Navy in the history of the nation

31 Aug - 06 Sep 2021 £2,580
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The Age of Bede Anglo-Saxon Northumbria

31 Aug - 03 Sep 2021 £1,040
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The Douro From Porto to Pinhão

02 - 09 Sep 2021 £3,210
The river Douro, lithograph 1813.
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Sacred Armenia Early Christian Monasteries & modern-day Yerevan

03 - 11 Sep 2021 £3,750
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Cyprus: stepping stone of history Island civilisation in the Eastern Mediterranean

04 - 12 Sep 2021 £3,760
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Walking to Santiago On foot for selected sections of the pilgrims’ way

06 - 17 Sep 2021 £3,680
Burgos Cathedral, Capilla del Condestable, steel engraving c. 1850.
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Moscow & St Petersburg Cultural highlights of Russia’s greatest cities

06 - 14 Sep 2021 £4,440
Moscow, early-18th-century copper engraving.
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Champagne: vines, cellars and cuvées Reims, Épernay, Côte des Blancs

07 - 11 Sep 2021 £2,280
Rheims Cathedral, engraving, 1890.
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Dutch Modern 20th-century and contemporary architecture

09 - 13 Sep 2021 £2,240
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

10 - 21 Sep 2021 £4,210
Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Georgia Uncovered Treasures of the Southern Caucasus

11 - 21 Sep 2021 £4,180
View of Tbilisi.
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Châteaux of the Loire The Renaissance in France

11 - 15 Sep 2021 £2,240
Château de Chenonceau, watercolour by A.H. Hallam Murray, publ. 1904.
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Classical Greece The Peloponnese, Attica & Athens

11 - 20 Sep 2021 £3,580
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Courts of Northern Italy Princely art of the Renaissance

12 - 19 Sep 2021 £2,480
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The Imperial Riviera Trieste, Ljubljana and the Istrian Peninsula

13 - 19 Sep 2021 £2,520
Trieste, steel engraving c. 1840
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Walking Hadrian’s Wall Roman civilisation at the edge of an Empire

13 - 19 Sep 2021 £2,160
Hadrian’s Wall near Housesteads, wood engraving c. 1888.
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Lusatia: Germany’s Eastern borderlands Cities, palaces & gardens along the Oder-Neisse Line

13 - 19 Sep 2021 £2,290
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: 3,000 years of creativity

13 - 25 Sep 2021 £4,960
Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Gastronomic Galicia Food and wine in an enchanting corner of north-west Spain

13 - 20 Sep 2021 £3,540
Santiago - view
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Art in the Netherlands A spectrum of the finest

19 - 25 Sep 2021 £2,930
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The Heart of Italy Umbria’s finest art & architecture

20 - 27 Sep 2021 £2,670
Spoleto, Ponte delle Torri, reproduction of a 19th-century steel engraving.
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Walking a Royal River Art, architecture & history from the source to Hampton Court

20 - 26 Sep 2021 £2,540
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Gastronomic West Country 'The best larder in all of Europe'

20 - 26 Sep 2021 £3,260
Exeter Cathedral, from The English Provinces p265.
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Early Christian & Medieval Rome Rare splendours from tempestuous times

21 - 28 Sep 2021 £3,220
Rome, cloister of St John Lateran, wood engraving 1877.
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Aragón: Hidden Spain Teruel, Zaragoza, Sos

22 - 30 Sep 2021 £2,820
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Sailing the Dalmatian Coast Maritime beauty, natural & architectural

25 Sep - 05 Oct 2021 £4,080
Dubrovnik, 20th-century etching.
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Gastronomic Crete Ambrosia & díaita, from land to table

26 Sep - 04 Oct 2021 £3,580
Crete, ruins.
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The Divine Office: Choral Music in Oxford A unique event of exceptional musical intensity and spiritual potency

27 Sep - 01 Oct 2021 £2,430
Magdalen bell tower, Oxford, 1924–1926. By George F. Nicholls. Heritage-Images / The Print Collector ©akg-images.
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World Heritage Malta From Neolithic to now

27 Sep - 03 Oct 2021 £3,140
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Granada & Córdoba with Úbeda & Baeza

27 Sep - 04 Oct 2021 £2,790
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The Victorian Achievement Architecture, Industry & Art in Lancashire & Yorkshire

27 Sep - 04 Oct 2021 £2,330
Liverpool, St George’s Hall and Lime Street Station, 19th-century lithograph by Charles Wilkinson.
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Norman Conquest and Plantagenet Power Great castles and churches of south-east England

28 Sep - 01 Oct 2021 £1,310
Canterbury, cathedral, wood engraving c. 1880 from ‘Brittons Cathedral Antiquities.’
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Ravenna & Urbino Byzantine capital, Renaissance court

29 Sep - 03 Oct 2021 £1,710
Ravenna, Mosaics in S. Apollinare, 20th-century engraving.
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Gardens & Villas of the Italian Lakes Como and Maggiore

30 Sep - 06 Oct 2021 £3,210
Lake Maggiore, by Ella du Cane publ. 1905.
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Bulgaria Archaeology & art from prehistoric to modern

02 - 11 Oct 2021 £3,070
Plovdiv, bridge over the Maritza, image ©Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy Stock Photo.
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Istanbul Revealed Byzantine & Ottoman metropolis

04 - 10 Oct 2021 £2,890
Istanbul, Haghia Sophia, early 18th-century engraving.
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Sailing the Dalmatian Coast Maritime beauty, natural & architectural

05 - 15 Oct 2021 £4,080
Dubrovnik, 20th-century etching.
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Tudor Encounters A symposium in York

06 - 08 Oct 2021 £610
Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I c.1573-1575. Oil on wood panel. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England ©Alamy Stock Photo.
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Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden Art and architecture in Brandenburg and Saxony

07 - 15 Oct 2021 £3,310
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Morocco Cities & empires

09 - 20 Oct 2021 £4,680
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Footpaths of Umbria Walks, art & wine between Arezzo & Assisi

11 - 18 Oct 2021 £2,810
Assisi, St. Francis, by Frank Fox publ. 1915.
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Pompeii & Herculaneum Antiquities of the Bay of Naples

11 - 16 Oct 2021 £2,290
Pompeii, watercolour by Frank Fox, publ. 1915
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Palladian Villas The greatest house builder in history

12 - 17 Oct 2021 £2,380
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 18th-century-engraving.
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Vietnam: History, People, Food From Ha Noi to Ho Chi Minh

17 - 29 Oct 2021 £6,290
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: 3,000 years of creativity

18 - 30 Oct 2021 £4,960
Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Castile & León The magnificent heart of Spain

18 - 27 Oct 2021 £3,110
Segovia, La Granja de San Ildefonso, watercolour by Mima Nixon, publ. 1916.
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Modern Art on the Côte d’Azur Picasso, Matisse, Chagall & their contemporaries

20 - 26 Oct 2021 £2,680
Nice, etching c. 1925 by Frederick Farrell
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Essential Jordan The major Nabataean, Roman, Christian & Islamic sites

23 - 31 Oct 2021 £4,360
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Cambodia by River From the Mekong Delta to the city of Angkor

30 Oct - 12 Nov 2021 £6,280
Elephant's Terrace at Angkor Wat, from ‘Ruins in Cambodia’, publ. 1923.
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Textiles in Japan with HALI Historic costume & textiles in museums & private collections

31 Oct - 11 Nov 2021 £7,260
Karaori, Hayashibara Museum of Art.
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The Art of Florence Cradle of the Renaissance

01 - 07 Nov 2021 £2,530
Florence, watercolour publ. 1904.
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Les Années Folles Paris in the Jazz Age

04 - 07 Nov 2021 £1,840
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Ancient and Islamic Tunisia Carthaginian, Roman & Arabian North Africa

05 - 12 Nov 2021 £2,660
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Art in Japan Art, craft, architecture & design

08 - 19 Nov 2021 £6,960
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Art History of Venice Painting, sculpture and architecture in the world’s most beautiful city

08 - 14 Nov 2021 £2,880
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Gastronomic Sicily Food & wine in the west

08 - 15 Nov 2021 £3,210
Palermo, Palatine chapel
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Venetian Palaces The greatest and best-preserved palaces of La Serenissima

09 - 13 Nov 2021 £2,610
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Oman, Landscapes & Peoples Desert, coast & mountains

12 - 22 Nov 2021 £5,910
Etching, 1927, by E.J. Detmold.
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Art in Madrid The Great Galleries

17 - 21 Nov 2021 £1,980
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Patagonia: ‘Uttermost Part of the Earth’ History, legends, landscapes and wildlife in southern Argentina & Chile

10 - 25 Mar 2022 £8,380
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Oberammergau 2022 The Decennial Passion Play in Bavaria

19 - 25 Jul 2022 £3,240
Oberammergau.
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