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Martin Randall Travel

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Dresden at Christmas Art, architecture & music in the Saxon capital

21 - 27 Dec 2021 £2,940
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Prague at Christmas Music, history, art and architecture

21 - 27 Dec 2021 £3,210
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Siena at Christmas Art and architecture in Southern Tuscany

21 - 27 Dec 2021 £3,040
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Siena, Cathedral, watercolour by W.W. Collins, publ. 1911.
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Milan at Christmas The art and architecture of Italy’s northern capital

22 - 28 Dec 2021 £3,110
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Christmas in Holland Art and architecture of the Golden Age

22 - 28 Dec 2021 £3,190
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Amsterdam, the fish market, copper engraving c. 1760.
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Paris at Christmas Great exhibitions and entertainment in the Ville Lumière

22 - 27 Dec 2021 £2,960
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String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam The world's largest string quartet festival

31 Jan - 05 Feb 2022 £2,780
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Essential Rome The complete spectrum of art, architecture & antiquities

22 - 28 Feb 2022 £3,130
Rome, Trevi Fountain, watercolour by C.T.G. Fornilli, publ. 1927.
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Connoisseur’s Rome Art & architecture: lesser-known, off the beaten track and private visits

22 - 27 Feb 2022 £2,960
Villa Borghese, from 'Rome' by Alberto Pisa,publ. A&C Black 1905
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Art in Texas Outstanding collections in city & desert

23 Feb - 06 Mar 2022 £6,670
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Gastronomic Andalucía Food, wine, art and architecture

04 - 11 Mar 2022 £3,560
Jerez de la Frontera, engraving 1713.
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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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Venetian Palaces The greatest and best-preserved palaces of La Serenissima

15 - 19 Mar 2022 £2,690
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Welsh National Opera Madame Butterfly, Don Giovanni

16 - 18 Mar 2022 £840
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The Art of Florence Cradle of the Renaissance

21 - 27 Mar 2022 £2,610
Florence, watercolour publ. 1904.
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Classical Turkey Greeks & Romans in Anatolia

21 - 30 Mar 2022 £3,780
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Eastern Andalucía: Caliphs to Kings Málaga, Granada, Úbeda, Jaén, Córdoba

28 Mar - 06 Apr 2022 £3,370
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Israel & Palestine Archaeology, architecture & art in the Holy Land

29 Mar - 07 Apr 2022 £5,860
Jerusalem, Mosque of Omar, watercolour by Phoebe Allen, publ. 1913.
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New Orleans to Natchitoches History, architecture & jazz

30 Mar - 09 Apr 2022 £5,480
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Gastronomic Provence

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

31 Mar - 07 Apr 2022 £3,720
Avignon, cathedral, lithograph c. 1850.
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Gardens of the Riviera In and around Menton and Nice

01 - 07 Apr 2022 £2,430
Menton, engraving from Picturesque Europe, c. 1880.
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Normans in the South Castles & cathedrals in Puglia, Basilicata & Campania

05 - 13 Apr 2022 £2,980
Castel del Monte, lithograph by Edward Lear from Edward Lear in Southern Italy.
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The Cathedrals of England Ely, Lincoln, Durham, York, Coventry, Gloucester, Bristol, Wells, Salisbury, Winchester

06 - 14 Apr 2022 £2,920
Durham Cathedral, engraving in The English Provinces, 1888.
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Mozart in Berlin Music, art & architecture in the German capital

06 - 11 Apr 2022 £3,420
Berlin, Staatsoper, copper engraving c. 1750.
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Romans & Carolingians Germany from Augustus to Charlemagne

06 - 13 Apr 2022 £2,960
Cologne, early-19th-century aquatint.
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Ravenna & Urbino Byzantine capital, Renaissance court

07 - 11 Apr 2022 £1,790
Ravenna, Mosaics in S. Apollinare, 20th-century engraving.
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Essential Jordan The major Nabataean, Roman, Christian & Islamic sites

09 - 17 Apr 2022 £4,770
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Art in Japan Art, craft, architecture & design

11 - 22 Apr 2022 £6,560
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Tom Abbott’s Berlin An insider’s view of Germany’s ever-changing capital

11 - 15 Apr 2022 £2,420
Berlin, dome of the Reichstag building, used under license from shutterstock.com.
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Cornish Houses and Gardens Landscapes, flowers, buildings and art

19 - 27 Apr 2022 £2,980
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Gardens & Villas of the Veneto Renaissance to recent in & around Padua, Verona & Vicenza

19 - 25 Apr 2022 £2,710
Padua, Church of St Anthony, after a drawing by Inglis Sheldon-Williams in ‘A Dawdle in Lombardy’, 1928.
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Pompeii & Herculaneum Antiquities of the Bay of Naples

19 - 24 Apr 2022 £2,360
Pompeii, watercolour by Frank Fox, publ. 1915
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Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity Archaeology, history, art & landscape

20 - 29 Apr 2022 £2,890
Berat, lithograph 1851 by Edward Lear.
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

22 Apr - 03 May 2022 £4,420
Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Genoa & Turin Palaces & galleries in north west Italy

23 - 29 Apr 2022 £2,580
Turin, Palazzo Madama and Palazzo Reale, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: 3,000 years of creativity

25 Apr - 07 May 2022 £5,060
Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Palladian Villas The greatest house builder in history

26 Apr - 01 May 2022 £2,380
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 18th-century-engraving.
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The Ligurian Coast Arts, history and scenery on the Riviera di Levante

30 Apr - 06 May 2022 £2,820
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Sailing the Dalmatian Coast Maritime beauty, natural & architectural

30 Apr - 10 May 2022 £4,070
Dubrovnik, 20th-century etching.
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Flemish Painting From van Eyck to Rubens: Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels

04 - 08 May 2022 £1,990
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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St Petersburg Pictures and palaces in the imperial capital

06 - 13 May 2022 £3,410
St Petersburg, Winter Palace, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Courts of Northern Italy Princely art of the Renaissance

06 - 13 May 2022 £2,570
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Classical Greece The Peloponnese, Attica & Athens

07 - 16 May 2022 £3,790
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Gardens of the Bay of Naples With Ischia, Capri and the Amalfi Coast

08 - 15 May 2022 £3,480
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Gastronomic Le Marche Food, wine, art & hilltop towns in undiscovered Italy

09 - 16 May 2022 £3,180
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Walking Hadrian’s Wall Roman civilisation at the edge of an Empire

09 - 15 May 2022 £2,890
Hadrian’s Wall near Housesteads, wood engraving c. 1888.
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Traditions of Japan Art, crafts, history, society

09 - 21 May 2022 £6,940
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The Western Balkans Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina & Montenegro: history past & present

09 - 22 May 2022 £5,420
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Sailing the Dalmatian Coast Maritime beauty, natural & architectural

11 - 21 May 2022 £4,070
Dubrovnik, 20th-century etching.
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Budapest Reopened Art, architecture & music in the Hungarian capital

11 - 15 May 2022 £1,980
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East Coast Galleries From Boston to Washington DC

11 - 24 May 2022 £7,210
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Extremadura Landscape, history and food in rural Spain

12 - 21 May 2022 £3,320
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Kraków & Silesia Art, architecture & history in southern Poland

13 - 20 May 2022 £3,090
Krakow, University, lithograph c.1820
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

13 - 24 May 2022 £4,420
Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Great Irish Houses Country houses both sides of the border

13 - 21 May 2022 £4,210
Castle Coole, chromolithograph c. 1880.
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Footpaths of Umbria Walks, art & wine between Arezzo & Assisi

16 - 23 May 2022 £2,880
Assisi, St. Francis, by Frank Fox publ. 1915.
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Arts & Crafts in the Lake District Churches, houses and museums

16 - 20 May 2022 £1,920
Ruskin’s house at Brantwood, wood engraving c. 1880 after a drawing by L.J. Hilliard.
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Medieval Heart of Portugal Romanesque and Gothic architecture

16 - 22 May 2022 £2,460
Portuguese Muleteer, engraving c. 1820
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In Search of Alexander Classical sites in northern Greece

17 - 23 May 2022 £2,860
Thessaloniki, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Textile Collections in Russia with HALI St Petersburg & Moscow

20 - 28 May 2022 £4,560
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Moldavia & Transylvania Towns, villages and painted churches on the edge of Europe

21 - 29 May 2022 £2,630
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Polyphony in Portugal A festival of glorious choral music in the churches and chapels of the beautiful and remote Alentejo

22 - 27 May 2022 £2,800
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Dark Age Brilliance Late Antique & Pre-Romanesque

23 - 30 May 2022 £2,470
Ravenna, San Vitale, engraving 1906 from 'The Shores of the Adriatic'.
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Oberammergau 2022 The Decennial Passion Play in Bavaria

24 - 30 May 2022 £3,240
Oberammergau.
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Gardens of Sintra Lisbon and the Portuguese Riviera

29 May - 02 Jun 2022 £2,530
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Gastronomy & the Golden Age Food, art & architecture from Belgium to the Netherlands

05 - 12 Jun 2022 £4,090
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Walking to Santiago On foot for selected sections of the pilgrims’ way

07 - 18 Jun 2022 £3,680
Burgos Cathedral, Capilla del Condestable, steel engraving c. 1850.
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Connoisseur’s Prague Art, architecture & design, with privileged access

07 - 13 Jun 2022 £2,980
Prague, Charles Bridge, watercolour by B. Granville Baker, publ. 1923.
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Connoisseur’s Vienna Art, architecture, music & private visits

08 - 14 Jun 2022 £3,230
The Secession Building, wood engraving 1898, the year of its completion.
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Gastronomic Veneto From Verona to the Adriatic, the Po Valley to the Dolomites

08 - 15 Jun 2022 £3,840
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Leipzig Bach Festival Music by the Bach family and their baroque contemporaries

09 - 15 Jun 2022 £3,430
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Medieval Burgundy Abbeys & churches of the high Middle Ages

09 - 16 Jun 2022 £2,980
Autun, wood engraving c. 1860.
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Treasures of Moravia Town and countryside of a forgotten province

13 - 20 Jun 2022 £2,910
Lednice, after Josef Vaic (1884–1961).
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Leipzig Bach Festival Music by the Bach family and their baroque contemporaries

15 - 20 Jun 2022 £3,010
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Versailles: Seat of the Sun King The greatest palace & garden

17 - 20 Jun 2022 £2,080
Hall of Mirrors, Versailles.
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Gardens in the Highlands Horticulture and garden design in northern Scotland

18 - 26 Jun 2022 £3,370
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Wagner in Leipzig All thirteen operas in the composer’s birthplace

19 - 27 Jun 2022 £3,390
Richard Wagner, woodcut c. 1930.
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Medieval Kent Castles, cathedrals & churches

20 - 24 Jun 2022 £1,520
Dover, steel engraving c. 1850.
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Franconia Art and architecture in Germany’s medieval heartland

20 - 27 Jun 2022 £2,960
Coburg Castle and Park, from Germany, by E T & E Harrison Compton, 1912
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Lucca & vicinity Romanesque to Renaissance in northern Tuscany

20 - 26 Jun 2022 £2,440
Lucca, San Martino, engraving c. 1800
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Wagner in Leipzig All thirteen operas in the composer’s birthplace

29 Jun - 04 Jul 2022 £2,360
Richard Wagner, woodcut c. 1930.
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Finland: Aalto & Others 20th-century architecture & design

30 Jun - 08 Jul 2022 £3,590
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French Gothic The great cathedrals of northern France

04 - 10 Jul 2022 £2,530
Chartres Cathedral, steel engraving c. 1840.
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Music in Suffolk Churches The MRT Festival of Sacred Music

04 - 07 Jul 2022 £1,960
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Cave Art in Spain Atapuerca to Altamira

05 - 11 Jul 2022 £2,650
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Bauhaus The birth of modern architecture and design

05 - 10 Jul 2022 £2,390
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Northumbria Countryside, coast, architecture & art

06 - 14 Jul 2022 £3,290
Warkworth Castle, wood engraving from The Saturday Magazine, 1833.
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Wagner in Leipzig All thirteen operas in the composer’s birthplace

06 - 11 Jul 2022 £2,860
Richard Wagner, woodcut c. 1930.
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Walking to Derbyshire Houses Magnificent countryside and great country houses

11 - 16 Jul 2022 £2,440
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Western Ireland Archaeology Archaeology, history & landscape

18 - 24 Jul 2022 £2,660
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Oberammergau 2022 The Decennial Passion Play in Bavaria

19 - 25 Jul 2022 £3,240
Oberammergau.
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Orkney: 5,000 years of culture Neolithic, Iron Age, Viking, present day

23 - 29 Jul 2022 £2,190
Kirkwall, steel engraving c. 1850
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The Hanseatic League Cities and Abbeys of Germany’s Baltic Coast

04 - 11 Aug 2022 £2,970
Lübeck, Town Hall, engraving from 'Leaves from a Sketchbook', c. 1890.
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Moving on: Architecture & Memory Bauhaus to the present in Stuttgart, Ulm and Munich

09 - 15 Aug 2022 £2,870
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King Ludwig II and the Wittelsbach palaces of Bavaria

17 - 22 Aug 2022 £2,810
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The Road to Santiago The pilgrimage route through northern Spain

02 - 14 Sep 2022 £4,060
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Courts of Northern Italy Princely art of the Renaissance

02 - 09 Sep 2022 £2,570
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The Etruscans Italy before Rome

05 - 11 Sep 2022 £2,270
Paintings from Cerveteri, wood engraving from Cities & Cemeteries of Etruria 1878.
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Cave Art of France Prehistory in the Dordogne

05 - 12 Sep 2022 £3,180
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The Douro From Porto to Pinhão

06 - 13 Sep 2022 £3,250
The river Douro, lithograph 1813.
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Peru: the Andean Heartland Pre-Columbian to present day

07 - 20 Sep 2022 £5,740
Remains of the Inca fort at Cuzco, lithograph, 1854.
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Frank Lloyd Wright and the Chicago School

09 - 20 Sep 2022 £6,430
Fallingwater, photograph courtesy of Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
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Classical Greece The Peloponnese, Attica & Athens

10 - 19 Sep 2022 £3,790
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Georgia Uncovered Treasures of the Southern Caucasus

10 - 20 Sep 2022 £4,180
View of Tbilisi.
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Footpaths of Umbria Walks, art & wine between Arezzo & Assisi

12 - 19 Sep 2022 £2,880
Assisi, St. Francis, by Frank Fox publ. 1915.
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: 3,000 years of creativity

12 - 24 Sep 2022 £5,090
Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Gardens & Landscapes of the Dutch Wave Piet Oudolf & Modern Garden Design

12 - 17 Sep 2022 £2,420
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Gastronomic Galicia Food and wine in an enchanting corner of north-west Spain

12 - 19 Sep 2022 £3,640
Santiago - view
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Dorset Churches Parish churches, abbeys and minsters

12 - 16 Sep 2022 £1,690
Dorchester
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St Petersburg Pictures and palaces in the imperial capital

16 - 23 Sep 2022 £3,410
St Petersburg, Winter Palace, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Samarkand & Silk Road Cities with Tashkent, Shakhr-i-Sabz, Bukhara and Khiva

16 - 27 Sep 2022 £4,420
Khiva, the Grand Minaret, wood engraving c. 1880.
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Gastronomic Emilia-Romagna Food and art along the Via Emilia

17 - 23 Sep 2022 £3,280
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Monet & Impressionism Paintings and places in Paris and Normandy

18 - 23 Sep 2022 £2,480
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Walking a Royal River Art, architecture & history from the source to Hampton Court

19 - 25 Sep 2022 £2,620
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Gardens & Villas of the Italian Lakes Como and Maggiore

22 - 28 Sep 2022 £3,290
Lake Maggiore, by Ella du Cane publ. 1905.
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Piero della Francesca A pilgrimage from Umbria to Milan

26 Sep - 02 Oct 2022 £2,780
Perugia, Cathedral, lithograph by V. Faini c.1930.
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World Heritage Malta From Neolithic to now

26 Sep - 02 Oct 2022 £3,250
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Essential Andalucía Spain’s southern province

26 Sep - 06 Oct 2022 £3,720
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The Cathedrals of England Ely, Lincoln, Durham, York, Coventry, Gloucester, Bristol, Wells, Salisbury, Winchester

29 Sep - 07 Oct 2022 £2,920
Durham Cathedral, engraving in The English Provinces, 1888.
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Ravenna & Urbino Byzantine capital, Renaissance court

29 Sep - 03 Oct 2022 £1,790
Ravenna, Mosaics in S. Apollinare, 20th-century engraving.
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Gastronomic Puglia

‘L’orto d’Italia’: food & wine in the vegetable garden of Italy

03 - 10 Oct 2022 £3,320
Trani.
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Palladian Villas The greatest house builder in history

04 - 09 Oct 2022 £2,380
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 18th-century-engraving.
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Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden Art and architecture in Brandenburg and Saxony

06 - 14 Oct 2022 £3,410
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Morocco Cities & empires

07 - 18 Oct 2022 £4,860
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Basilicata & Calabria Italy’s undiscovered south

07 - 15 Oct 2022 £3,160
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Connoisseur’s Pompeii Food, wine and archaeology in the Bay of Naples

11 - 14 Oct 2022 £1,670
The Bay of Naples and Vesuvius, 19th-century gouache.
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The Imperial Riviera Trieste, Ljubljana and the Istrian Peninsula

17 - 23 Oct 2022 £2,640
Trieste, steel engraving c. 1840
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Civilisations of Sicily Mediterranean crossroads: 3,000 years of creativity

17 - 29 Oct 2022 £5,090
Segesta, watercolour by Alberto Pisa, publ. 1911.
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Roman & Medieval Provence The south of France in the Middle Ages

21 - 27 Oct 2022 £2,760
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Israel & Palestine Archaeology, architecture & art in the Holy Land

25 Oct - 03 Nov 2022 £5,860
Jerusalem, Mosque of Omar, watercolour by Phoebe Allen, publ. 1913.
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Art in Madrid The Great Galleries

02 - 06 Nov 2022 £1,980
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Venetian Palaces The greatest and best-preserved palaces of La Serenissima

08 - 12 Nov 2022 £2,690
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Japanese Gardens Tokyo, Kyoto, Hikone, Nara & Kanazawa

10 - 21 Nov 2022 £6,420
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Florence Revisited Art off the beaten track & in private collections

21 - 27 Nov 2022 £2,740
Florence, Uffizi, the Tribune, engraving 1820.
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Venice Revisited From prison to palazzo: art and life in historic Venice

21 - 26 Nov 2022 £2,830
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Indian Summer Delhi, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Shimla

14 - 25 Mar 2023 £5,510
Amritsar, the Porcelain Dome, watercolour by Mortimer Menpes, publ. 1910.
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