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Martin Randall Travel

View a complete list of cultural tours and events for 2023 and 2024, or browse by month using the buttons below.

 

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Cyprus: stepping stone of history Island civilisation in the Eastern Mediterranean

27 Mar - 04 Apr 2023 £4,270
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Gastronomic Valencia Food & art in south-east Spain

27 Mar - 03 Apr 2023 £3,520
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Essential Puglia Art & architecture in the heel of Italy

28 Mar - 04 Apr 2023 £2,870
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Florentine Palaces Defence, humanism, magnificence and beauty

29 Mar - 02 Apr 2023 £2,630
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The Ring in Berlin Wagner in the German capital

03 - 11 Apr 2023 £5,980
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Art in Japan Art, craft, architecture & design

10 - 21 Apr 2023 £6,560
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Palladian Villas The greatest house builder in history

11 - 16 Apr 2023 £2,480
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Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 18th-century-engraving.
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Romans & Carolingians Germany from Augustus to Charlemagne

12 - 19 Apr 2023 £2,960
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Cologne, early-19th-century aquatint.
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Pompeii & Herculaneum Antiquities of the Bay of Naples

17 - 22 Apr 2023 £2,390
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Pompeii, watercolour by Frank Fox, publ. 1915
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Anjou & the West Angers, Poitiers, Saintes

18 - 27 Apr 2023 £3,410
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Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity Archaeology, history, art and landscape

19 - 28 Apr 2023 £2,960
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Berat, lithograph 1851 by Edward Lear.
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The Cathedrals of England Ely, Lincoln, Durham, York, Coventry, Gloucester, Bristol, Wells, Salisbury, Winchester

19 - 27 Apr 2023 £3,210
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Durham Cathedral, engraving in The English Provinces, 1888.
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Opera in Vienna Wagner, Strauss & Strauss

20 - 25 Apr 2023 £3,290
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Vienna, Theater an der Wien, late-19th-century wood engraving.
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Southern Tuscany The Sienese Contado and the Val d’Orcia

20 - 26 Apr 2023 £2,270
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Ravenna & Urbino Byzantine capital, Renaissance court

20 - 24 Apr 2023 £1,890
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Ravenna, Mosaics in S. Apollinare, 20th-century engraving.
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Linos Piano Trio New Beginnings to Grand Finales

21 - 23 Apr 2023 £880
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

21 Apr - 02 May 2023 £4,460
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Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: three thousand years of creativity

24 Apr - 06 May 2023 £5,360
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Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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The Venetian Land Empire A spectrum of north-east Italy’s finest art and architecture

24 Apr - 03 May 2023 £4,370
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The Western Balkans Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina & Montenegro: history past & present

08 - 21 May 2023 £5,420
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Walking Hadrian’s Wall Roman civilisation at the edge of an Empire

08 - 14 May 2023 £2,930
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Hadrian’s Wall near Housesteads, wood engraving c. 1888.
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The Duchy of Milan Territory of Visconti & Sforza

08 - 15 May 2023 £3,230
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Cremona, Cathedral square
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Tuscan Gardens The pick of the region's gardens and villas

08 - 13 May 2023 £2,620
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Elias String Quartet Beethoven & Haydn

08 - 10 May 2023 £860
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Traditions of Japan Art, crafts, history, society

08 - 20 May 2023 £6,940
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Aragón: Hidden Spain Teruel, Zaragoza, Sos

10 - 18 May 2023 £2,820
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Courts of Northern Italy Princely art of the Renaissance

12 - 19 May 2023 £2,680
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Art in Scotland Great cities, spectacular museums

12 - 19 May 2023 £2,470
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Edinburgh Castle from Greyfriars cemetery, wood engraving c. 1890.
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Great Irish Houses Country houses both sides of the border

12 - 20 May 2023 £4,480
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Castle Coole, chromolithograph c. 1880.
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Cities of Catalonia 2,000 years of art and architecture, from Romans to Modernistas

13 - 22 May 2023 £3,970
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Classical Greece The Peloponnese, Attica & Athens

13 - 22 May 2023 £3,980
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Prague Spring The International Music Festival in the capital of Bohemia

15 - 21 May 2023 £3,540
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Byrd in the City London Choral Day 2023

15 May 2023 £240
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St Bartholomew the Great, from Some London Churches, publ. 1911.
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Leipzig Mahler Festival A celebration of Mahler’s orchestral works

18 - 29 May 2023 £5,980
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Moldavia & Transylvania Towns, villages and painted churches on the edge of Europe

18 - 28 May 2023 £2,940
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

19 - 30 May 2023 £4,460
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Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Dresden Music Festival Art & music in the Saxon capital

19 - 25 May 2023 £3,430
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Castles of Wales Conquest and colonisation in medieval Britain

21 - 25 May 2023 £1,740
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Conwy Castle, lithograph c. 1840.
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Great Private Houses in Norfolk Special arrangements and in-depth visits

22 - 26 May 2023 £2,490
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The Medieval Pyrenees Catalonia, Roussillon & the Comté de Foix

23 May - 01 Jun 2023 £3,680
Monastery of Poblet, late-18th-century engraving.
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Berlin: New Architecture The unification of a capital

30 May - 03 Jun 2023 £2,280
Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin-Tiergarten. Copyright: visitBerlin, Foto: Wolfgang Scholvien
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Medieval Burgundy Abbeys and churches of the High Middle Ages

03 - 10 Jun 2023 £3,110
Autun, wood engraving c. 1860.
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Gastronomy & the Golden Age Food, art & architecture in Belgium and the Netherlands

07 - 14 Jun 2023 £4,460
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Glyndebourne & Garsington L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

08 - 11 Jun 2023 £3,100
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Versailles: Seat of the Sun King The greatest palace & garden

09 - 12 Jun 2023 £2,140
Hall of Mirrors, Versailles.
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Gastronomic Friuli-Venezia Giulia Superb food and wine in Italy’s less frequented north east

12 - 18 Jun 2023 £3,420
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Footpaths of Umbria Walks, art and wine between Arezzo and Assisi

12 - 19 Jun 2023 £3,030
Assisi, St. Francis, by Frank Fox publ. 1915.
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Art in Tyrol, South & North Frescoes, carvings and collections in Italy and Austria

12 - 18 Jun 2023 £2,920
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Great French Gardens Historic and contemporary, among the world’s finest

14 - 23 Jun 2023 £4,070
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Great Houses of the North Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Co. Durham, Northumberland

15 - 23 Jun 2023 £3,870
Castle Howard, engraving based on Colen Cambell’s Vitruvius Britannicus, 1720s.
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The Squares Walk London’s greatest glory

16 Jun 2023 £190
Belgrave Square, Pimlico, engraving (detail) c. 1830.
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Medieval Alsace Architecture and art around the Upper Rhine in France and Germany

16 - 23 Jun 2023 £3,290
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Gardens in the Highlands Horticulture and garden design in northern Scotland

17 - 25 Jun 2023 £3,620
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Walking in Southern Bohemia From castle to castle in glorious countryside

19 - 25 Jun 2023 £2,970
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Medieval Middle England Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire

19 - 23 Jun 2023 £1,680
Brixworth, engraving c. 1880.
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Walking the Rhine Valley Concerts & hikes through woods, fields & vineyards

22 - 28 Jun 2023 £3,150
Speyer, copper engraving c. 1700.
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West Cork Chamber Music Festival Concerts on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way

23 - 27 Jun 2023 £2,050
Bantry House, photo ©Lizzy Holsgrove.
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Music along the Rhine Outstanding music, beautiful countryside and historic towns along Germany’s principal river

23 - 30 Jun 2023 £3,310
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Lincolnshire Churches Major and minor, from cathedral to parish

27 Jun - 01 Jul 2023 £1,320
Lincoln Cathedral, wood engraving c. 1890.
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Copenhagen Modern 20th-century architecture in the coastal capital

29 Jun - 03 Jul 2023 £2,570
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Celebrating William Byrd Ten performances in and around Lincoln marking 400 years since the death of England's greatest composer

01 - 05 Jul 2023 £1,940
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West Country Churches Medieval art and architecture in the south west

03 - 07 Jul 2023 £1,460
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Flemish Painting From van Eyck to Rubens: Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels

05 - 09 Jul 2023 £2,140
The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, wood engraving after a painting by J. van Eyck from Le Moyen Age by Paul Lacroix, 1871.
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The Wren Tercentenary City churches & St Paul’s

06 Jul 2023 £220
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Savonlinna Opera The annual summer festival in lakeland Finland

06 - 11 Jul 2023 £3,370
Savonlinna, after a pen and ink drawing, early 20th-century.
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Hindsgavl: Chamber Music in Denmark Intimate and immersive performances in beautiful surroundings

11 - 16 Jul 2023 £3,520
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Cave Art of France Prehistory in the Dordogne

12 - 19 Jul 2023 £3,310
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Lusatia: Germany’s Eastern borderlands Cities, palaces and gardens along the Oder-Neisse Line

17 - 23 Jul 2023 £2,460
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The London Backstreet Walk From Hyde Park Corner to the Tower

19 Jul 2023 £190
Fountain Court, Inner Temple, watercolour by Jack Merriott.
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Opera in Munich Handel, Wagner & Purcell in the great Bavarian capital

19 - 23 Jul 2023 £3,450
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The Hanseatic League Cities and abbeys of Germany’s Baltic Coast

27 Jul - 03 Aug 2023 £3,080
Lübeck, Town Hall, engraving from 'Leaves from a Sketchbook', c. 1890.
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London Gardens Walk The City and its borders

28 Jul 2023 £210
St. Paul's Cathedral, watercolour by A.R. Hope Moncrieff, publ. 1916.
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Verona Opera Lyric spectacle in the Veneto

02 - 06 Aug 2023 £3,140
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Medieval Saxony Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque

07 - 16 Aug 2023 £3,130
Paderborn
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Drottningholm & Confidencen Dardanus and The Fairy Queen

11 - 14 Aug 2023 £2,060
Drottningholm Palace, copper engraving c. 1700.
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Rossini & Puccini Opera in their home territories, Torre del Lago and Pesaro

14 - 20 Aug 2023 £3,780
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King Ludwig II and the Wittelsbach palaces of Bavaria

15 - 20 Aug 2023 £3,050
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The Lucerne Festival Music in Switzerland

20 - 25 Aug 2023 £4,480
Lucerne, wood engraving c. 1890.
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The Schubertiade Music and mountains in the Vorarlberg

25 - 31 Aug 2023 £3,970
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Mitteldeutschland Weimar and the towns of Thuringia and Sachsen-Anhalt

27 Aug - 04 Sep 2023 £3,320
Arnstadt, steel engraving c. 1850
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London Neighbourhoods The City to Marble Arch

31 Aug 2023 £200
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

01 - 12 Sep 2023 £4,730
Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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The Heart of Italy Umbria’s finest art and architecture

02 - 09 Sep 2023 £2,940
Spoleto, Ponte delle Torri, reproduction of a 19th-century steel engraving.
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Walking to Santiago On foot for selected sections of the pilgrims’ way

02 - 13 Sep 2023 £3,790
Burgos Cathedral, Capilla del Condestable, steel engraving c. 1850.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel Engineering modern Britain

03 - 08 Sep 2023 £2,430
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The Bach Journey A journey exploring the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach through central Germany

04 - 10 Sep 2023 £3,040
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The Age of Bede Anglo-Saxon Northumbria

04 - 08 Sep 2023 £1,370
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Gastronomic Basque Country Food, art & architecture in the Basque lands

04 - 11 Sep 2023 £4,310
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Dutch Modern 20th-century and contemporary architecture

06 - 11 Sep 2023 £2,830
Van Nelle Tobacco Factory in Rotterdam.
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Ravenna & Urbino Byzantine capital, Renaissance court

07 - 11 Sep 2023 £1,890
Ravenna, Mosaics in S. Apollinare, 20th-century engraving.
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Courts of Northern Italy Princely art of the Renaissance

08 - 15 Sep 2023 £2,680
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Classical Greece The Peloponnese, Attica & Athens

09 - 18 Sep 2023 £3,980
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Châteaux of the Loire The Renaissance in France

09 - 13 Sep 2023 £2,310
Château de Chenonceau, watercolour by A.H. Hallam Murray, publ. 1904.
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: three thousand years of creativity

11 - 23 Sep 2023 £5,360
Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Walking in Slovenia A green and historic nation

11 - 18 Sep 2023 £3,480
Lake Bled.
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Georgia Uncovered Treasures of the Southern Caucasus

16 - 26 Sep 2023 £4,590
View of Tbilisi.
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Walking a Royal River Art, architecture & history from the source to Hampton Court

18 - 24 Sep 2023 £2,730
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English Georgian Towns The art of building and the building arts 1700–1840

20 - 27 Sep 2023 £2,790
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Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity Archaeology, history, art and landscape

20 - 29 Sep 2023 £2,960
Berat, lithograph 1851 by Edward Lear.
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Frank Lloyd Wright and the Chicago School

22 Sep - 03 Oct 2023 £6,430
Fallingwater, photograph courtesy of Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
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Fiesole to Lucca: Tuscany on foot Countryside, gardens, villas & sculpture

24 Sep - 01 Oct 2023 £3,420
Tuscan landscape, etching c. 1920.
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Essential Andalucía Spain’s southern province

25 Sep - 05 Oct 2023 £3,830
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Pompeii & Herculaneum Antiquities of the Bay of Naples

25 - 30 Sep 2023 £2,390
Pompeii, watercolour by Frank Fox, publ. 1915
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Sir Christopher Wren The tercentenary of England's most famous architect

26 - 30 Sep 2023 £2,310
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Medieval Champagne Architecture, sculpture and stained glass

26 Sep - 03 Oct 2023 £3,120
Reims Cathedral, 19th-century engraving.
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Arts & Crafts in the Cotswolds Art and artefacts in the buildings they were designed for

26 - 30 Sep 2023 £2,090
Design by William Morris, reproduced in Pen Drawings & Pen Draughtsmen by Joseph Pennell, publ. 1889
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The Cathedrals of England Ely, Lincoln, Durham, York, Coventry, Gloucester, Bristol, Wells, Salisbury, Winchester

27 Sep - 05 Oct 2023 £3,210
Durham Cathedral, engraving in The English Provinces, 1888.
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Two Spains: The Spanish Civil War & its Aftermath Madrid, Priorat, Barcelona

27 Sep - 05 Oct 2023 £3,360
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Siena & San Gimignano Hilltop towns of Tuscany

30 Sep - 04 Oct 2023 £1,840
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Gardens & Villas of Campagna Romana From formal to frivolous in spectacular settings

02 - 07 Oct 2023 £2,710
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Art in the Netherlands A spectrum of the finest

04 - 10 Oct 2023 £3,110
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Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden Art and architecture in Brandenburg and Saxony

05 - 13 Oct 2023 £3,770
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Malta: prehistoric to present with a day on Gozo

09 - 15 Oct 2023 £3,320
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Ravenna & Urbino Byzantine capital, Renaissance court

12 - 16 Oct 2023 £1,890
Ravenna, Mosaics in S. Apollinare, 20th-century engraving.
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Gastronomic Piedmont Some of the finest food and wine in Italy

14 - 20 Oct 2023 £3,780
The Val Lucerne, Piedmont, steel engraving after William Brockedon (1787-1854).
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Castile & León The magnificent heart of Spain

16 - 25 Oct 2023 £3,330
Segovia, La Granja de San Ildefonso, watercolour by Mima Nixon, publ. 1916.
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: three thousand years of creativity

16 - 28 Oct 2023 £5,360
Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Footpaths of Umbria Walks, art and wine between Arezzo and Assisi

16 - 23 Oct 2023 £3,030
Assisi, St. Francis, by Frank Fox publ. 1915.
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In Search of Alexander Classical sites in northern Greece

16 - 22 Oct 2023 £3,090
Thessaloniki, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Palladian Villas The greatest house builder in history

17 - 22 Oct 2023 £2,480
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 18th-century-engraving.
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Renaissance Rivals Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael: the tumultuous trio

18 - 24 Oct 2023 £3,740
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The Thomas Tallis Trail

A choral pilgrimage with The Tallis Scholars in their 50th anniversary year

20 - 22 Oct 2023 £1,380
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Essential Jordan The major Nabataean, Roman, Christian and Islamic sites

21 - 29 Oct 2023 £5,020
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The Ligurian Coast Arts, history and scenery on the Riviera di Levante

21 - 27 Oct 2023 £3,060
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Oman, Landscapes & Peoples Desert, coast and mountains

21 - 31 Oct 2023 £6,810
Etching, 1927, by E.J. Detmold.
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Modern Art on the Côte d’Azur Picasso, Matisse, Chagall & their contemporaries

22 - 28 Oct 2023 £3,060
Nice, etching c. 1925 by Frederick Farrell
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Italian Design Modernism in Turin and Milan

23 - 29 Oct 2023 £3,320
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Malta: prehistoric to present with a day on Gozo

23 - 29 Oct 2023 £3,320
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Wexford Festival Opera Rare operas in a convivial ambience

30 Oct - 04 Nov 2023 £2,520
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Palermo Revealed Art, archaeology, architecture and gastronomy

31 Oct - 05 Nov 2023 £2,890
Palermo cathedral, steel engraving c.1850
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Les Années Folles Paris in the Jazz Age

02 - 05 Nov 2023 £2,020
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Venetian Palaces The greatest and best-preserved palaces of La Serenissima

07 - 11 Nov 2023 £2,730
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Japanese Gardens Tokyo, Kyoto, Hikone, Nara & Kanazawa

09 - 20 Nov 2023 £6,610
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Art History of Venice Painting, sculpture & architecture in the world’s most beautiful city

13 - 19 Nov 2023 £2,880
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Gastronomic Sicily Food & wine in the west

13 - 20 Nov 2023 £3,480
Palermo, Palatine chapel
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Art in Madrid The Great Galleries

15 - 19 Nov 2023 £2,080
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The Art of Florence Cradle of the Renaissance

20 - 26 Nov 2023 £2,950
Florence, watercolour publ. 1904.
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The Printing Revolution Renaissance print culture in Rome & Venice

20 - 27 Nov 2023 £4,120
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Celebrating Picasso Special exhibitions in Málaga, Madrid, Barcelona and Paris

21 - 29 Nov 2023 £3,830
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Essential South India Temples, Empires & Spices in Tamil Nadu & Kerala

30 Nov - 13 Dec 2023 £5,810
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Turin at Christmas Palaces, porticos & piazze

20 - 27 Dec 2023 £3,440
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Florence at Christmas Cradle of the Renaissance

20 - 27 Dec 2023 £3,760
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Verona at Christmas with Mantua & Padua

21 - 28 Dec 2023 £3,320
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Paris at Christmas Art and music in the Ville Lumière

21 - 27 Dec 2023 £3,680
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Munich at Christmas Bavaria's magnificent capital and its environs

21 - 28 Dec 2023 £4,030
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Music in Berlin at New Year Art, architecture & music in the German capital

28 Dec 2023 - 03 Jan 2024 £4,250
Berlin, Staatsoper, copper engraving c. 1750.
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Oman, Landscapes & Peoples Desert, coast and mountains

25 Jan - 04 Feb 2024 £6,810
Etching, 1927, by E.J. Detmold.
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Vietnam: History, People, Food From Ha Noi to Ho Chi Minh

25 Feb - 08 Mar 2024 £6,340
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Welsh National Opera Così fan tutte, Death in Venice

08 - 10 Mar 2024 £1,040
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Cambodia by River From the Mekong Delta to the city of Angkor

09 - 22 Mar 2024 £7,090
Elephant's Terrace at Angkor Wat, from ‘Ruins in Cambodia’, publ. 1923.
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Normans in the South Castles & cathedrals in Puglia, Basilicata & Campania

19 - 27 Mar 2024 £3,240
Castel del Monte, lithograph by Edward Lear from Edward Lear in Southern Italy.
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Malta: prehistoric to present with a day on Gozo

22 - 28 Apr 2024 £3,480
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Cornish Houses and Gardens Landscapes, flowers, buildings and art

23 Apr - 01 May 2024 £3,370
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The Western Balkans Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina & Montenegro: history past & present

13 - 26 May 2024 £5,770
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Lucca & vicinity Romanesque to Renaissance in northern Tuscany

03 - 09 Jun 2024 £2,560
Lucca, San Martino, engraving c. 1800
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Medieval West Midlands Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Oxfordshire

24 - 28 Jun 2024 £1,640
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Finland: Aalto & Others 20th-century architecture and design

27 Jun - 05 Jul 2024 £3,980
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West Coast Architecture A century of building in Arizona and California

13 - 23 Sep 2024 £6,830
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Malta: prehistoric to present with a day on Gozo

07 - 13 Oct 2024 £3,480
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