Autumn Update 2022 by Martin Randall Travel

Autumn Update September 2022

Within Europe, our northernmost offerings include Copenhagen Modern, Savonlinna Opera, Great Swedish Houses; our southernmost: Gastronomic Sicily, In Search of Alexander, Cities of al-Andalus. New within the UK, and in more detail overleaf, are Art in Scotland and English Georgian Towns. They are but two in a programme of twenty events on these shores. Much can be booked straight away or you can register interest with us to receive details for those not yet on sale. If you would like a steer, please call us. I have said it before but it can surely be repeated: we enjoy talking to you. With best wishes, Fiona Charrington Chief SeptemberExecutive2022

Contents A selection of tours in 2023: Art in Scotland 4 English Georgian Towns 6 Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity 8 Châteaux of the Loire ................................. 10 Copenhagen Modern ................................. 12 Essential Rome ............................................ 14 Ravenna & Urbino...................................... 16 Gastronomic Valencia ................................ 18 The Western Balkans .................................. 20 Japanese Gardens ........................................ 22 Martin Randall Festivals 24–25 Tours by date, 2022 & 2023 26–31 So far in 2024 31 Online talks with expert speakers.......... 32 Left: Ruins of Angkor Wat, Cambodia, engraving c. 1880. Martin Randall Travel Ltd 10 Barley Mow Passage, London W4 4PH Tel +44 (0)20 8742 3355 info@martinrandall.co.ukwww.martinrandall.com From North America: Tel 1 800 988 6168 (toll-free) usa@martinrandall.comATOL 3622 | ABTA Y6050 | AITO 5085

Dear traveller, Our Autumn programme is in full swing, our UK and European tours spiced up with our return to Uzbekistan, Patagonia, Oman and Japan. Further longer haul opportunities are available in 2023, including Indian Summer in the earlier part of the year, Essential South India in the latter. If you are planning for 2024, you can already book Vietnam: History, People, Food and Cambodia by River. We will soon be launching the Martin Randall Festivals for the year ahead. Music along the Rhine runs from 23–30 June. Having joined part of our Danube festival this summer, I can only urge you to consider this. The joy of river travel – the changing landscapes, towns explored, the comfort – combined with ‘truly outstanding’ concerts in palaces and churches, made for an extraordinary week.

Celebrating William Byrd follows from 1–5 July, based in Lincoln with The Tallis Scholars, Gesualdo Six, Tenebrae and many others. The J. S. Bach Journey is in September, 4–10, our much-loved musical pilgrimage through Thuringia to places where Bach lived and worked. The full list of tours for 2023 can be found at the back of this Update and on martinrandall.com.

Itinerary Day 1: Glasgow. The holdings of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum are extensive and wideranging, with major works by Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Salvador Dali, and dazzling displays of the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists.

Day 3: Glasgow, Dundee. Visit The Hunterian, a wide-ranging university museum: James McNeill Whistler, the Glasgow Boys, Scottish Colourists and – famously – Margaret MacDonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Train to Dundee. First of three nights here.

Day 4: Dundee. The McManus Art Gallery holds the best collection of Victorian Scottish painting, good English works, 20th-century art and contemporary ceramics. Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee has an excellent display of Scottish arts and crafts. Some free time – and plenty to see.

Art in Scotland

First of two nights in Glasgow. Day 2: Glasgow environs. A day in countryside begins at Pollok House, a Palladian mansion that possesses fine Spanish paintings as well as works by Scottish painters. The Burrell Collection includes Chinese ceramics, French Impressionists, medieval stained glass, etc. Overnight Glasgow.

Day 5: Aberdeen. Day trip by rail to Aberdeen. Re-opened in 2019 after refurbishment, the Art Gallery is one of the best in regional Britain. King’s College in Old Aberdeen was founded in 1495, and the chapel has medieval carving and Art Nouveau stained glass. Overnight Dundee. Day 6: Edinburgh. By train from Dundee. Visit the Scottish National Gallery. Within the British Isles this is second only to its counterpart in London for the richness, range and quality of its collection. First of two nights in Edinburgh. Day 7: Edinburgh. See first a former Victorian church with spectacular Arts and Crafts murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is a splendid building, the history of Scotland through personalities and great art. Free afternoon. Day 8: Edinburgh. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. In the surrounding park are sculptures by Miró, Moore, Hepworth and Whiteread, and the indoor collections include works by Matisse, Picasso and Dix, a worldfamous collection of Surrealism and Dada and a rollcall of the leading Scottish artists. The tour finishes by lunchtime.

Four of the most handsome cities in Britain. Train travel between cities. The Burrell Collection emerged in 2022 from six years of radical refurbishment. The consensus is that one of the world’s best boutique art galleries has just got better. The new-ish V&A Dundee also beckons, its hulking ship-like form on the historic waterfront making it the most striking art museum in Britain. Aberdeen Art Gallery was joint winner of the Museum of the Year award in 2020, after major remodelling, while it’s not long since the McManus Art Gallery and Museum, also in Dundee, underwent a thorough makeover. There are exceptional collections of works from around the world to be seen, but Scottish art may come as a revelation. Some names will be familiar – Allan Ramsay, Gavin Hamilton, Henry Raeburn, David Wilkie, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, John Bellany; the Glasgow Boys and Scottish Colourists; others may be unknown to you, and you will wonder why. All four cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen, are among the most handsome in Britain.

Right: ‘The Virgin & Child Enthroned About’ by Lorenzo Monaco, which hangs in the National Gallery of Scotland. Photo ©Mitch Hodge.

Well-stocked galleries, many recently renewed; Scottish painting a highlight.

Great cities, spectacular museums

12–19 May 2023 (mj 719) 8 days • £2,470

Expert speaker: Christopher Baker

Continental styles – assertively grandiloquent, overpoweringly ornamented, oppressively formal – were taken to be the visual manifestation of tyranny, popery and decadence. Britons believed themselves to be free and morally superior, and the ‘simplicité sevère’ of their buildings, their restraint and orderliness, can be presented as a reflection of this. The Englishness of English architecture was a fascinating compound of many factors, as you will discover.

Day 1: Bath. Begin at 2.00pm. Hot springs caused both Roman and Georgian towns. In the 18th century Bath became the most fashionable resort in England and one of the loveliest cities in Europe. First of five nights in Bath.

English Georgian Towns

A wide-ranging survey of the most loved period of English architecture and design. Includes most of the main concentrations of Georgian urban building in southern England. A dozen important interiors, some with exclusive out-of-hours access. Based in the Georgian resorts of Bath and Brighton, with excursions by coach and rail. Georgian buildings have long been a byword for good taste and elegance. Few sights in an English town are lovelier than a stretch of 18th-century or Regency streetscape This tour presents many of the finest terraces, squares, mansions and civic buildings in urban England and explains how and why these constructions came to be and look as they do. Matters such as crafts, skills and materials will be examined as well as the complexities and constraints of land ownership and development and the use to which rooms were put. The issues of style and taste are central, of course.

Interiors are a significant ingredient in the tour, with their furnishings and decoration, paintwork and colour, heating and lighting, cooking and – outdoors – gardening. Issues around conservation thread through the week. Why were British houses so different from their counterparts in the rest of Europe?

Day 4: Trowbridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Bath. By train to Trowbridge, which retains a dozen ambitious Georgian mansions, and Bradfordon-Avon where 18th-century textile wealth bequeathed many merchants’ mansions as well as workaday housing. Some free time in Bath.

Right: Bath, The Circus, wood engraving c. 1880.

Day 3: Cheltenham. The Georgian fashion for hydrotherapy created the exceptionally handsome Regency town of cream stucco, elegant crescents and ironwork verandas, favoured by retirees from the army and Indian Civil Service.

The art of building and the building arts 1700–1840 20–27 September 2023 (mj 895) 8 days • £2,790 Expert speaker: Andrew Foyle

Day 7: Brighton, Hove. The future Prince Regent’s visits led to Brighton becoming England’s fastest growing town. Contiguous Hove began as a resort in the 1820s. Both consist of gracious streets and squares, rippling with bow windows. Restoration of the Regency Town House has revealed much.

Day 2: Bath. Further walks around terraces, squares and crescents. The undulating topography adds picturesque charm to the Anglo-Palladian classical architecture. Interiors include the Assembly Rooms and No. 1 Royal Crescent.

Day 6: Salisbury, Goodwood. The journey to Brighton is broken by visits to Mompesson House in Salisbury and Goodwood House in Sussex. First of two nights in Brighton.

Day 8: Brighton. The Pavilion is the most flamboyant of Regency buildings and one of the most astonishing residential creations in Britain. The tour ends at 1.00pm.

Day 5: Bristol. The largest city in the West Country possesses some of the grandest Georgian terraces and squares in England, while in the medieval core there are some splendid Palladian and Greek Revival buildings. Last night in Bath.

Lecturer: Carolyn Perry Discover a forgotten history of conflict, culture and economic power. Explore the remains of once-flourishing Greek, Roman and Ottoman cities. Stay in the unesco World Heritage towns of Berat and Gjirokastra. Albania’s importance in the ancient world is writ large in the historical sources. Greek historian Thucydides describes how a dispute over the city of Epidamnus (modern Durrës) helped ignite the Peloponnesian War of 431–404 bc. Nearly 400 years later, much of Rome’s civil war between Caesar and Pompey was played out along the Albanian coast. A natural staging post between the eastern and western Mediterranean, Albania flourished under Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans. This is a country blessed with natural harbours, and a short sea crossing to the Italian port of Brindisi. It is also the start of the most direct overland route from the Adriatic to Istanbul, which in Roman times was traced by the Via Egnatia. It is this rich and forgotten history that forms the backbone of ourWetour.visit ancient cities that once had glittering reputations, but have since fallen into ruin and have only ever been partially excavated. Meanwhile, the unesco World Heritage towns of Berat and Gjirokastra shine a light onto the civilisation that developed under five centuries of Ottoman rule. Not all the sites are easy to access: but that just adds to the sense of exploration and discovery. The drive to Labova e Kryqit (Labova of the Cross), for example, involves venturing off the beaten track, to be rewarded by an exquisite Byzantine church, complete with dazzling icons and exceptional frescoes. To reach Saranda, we travel through the pristine landscapes of the Llogara National Park. Albania wriggled free of the Ottomans on 28 November 1912, but since then has endured occupation by the Austro-Hungarians, Italians and Germans, among others – as well as a repressive Communist regime that outlasted all others in Europe. Thankfully, the past two decades have seen great changes, and the country is now a candidate for entry to the European Union. Tirana is modernising at breakneck speed: the tour culminates with a two-night sojourn amid its bustle and optimism. Itinerary Day 1. Afternoon flight from London Heathrow to Tirana. Drive to Kruja. Overnight in Kruja. Day 2: Kruja, Durrës, Berat. Day 3: Berat. Overnight in Berat. Day 4: Byllis, Vlora. Overnight in Vlora. Day 5: Himara, Saranda. Overnight Saranda. Day 6: Butrint, Gjirokastra. First of two nights in Gjirokastra. Day 7: Gjirokastra, Labova e Kryqit. Overnight in Gjirokastra. Day 8: Apollonia, Ardenica, Tirana. First of two nights in Tirana. Day 9: Tirana. Overnight in Tirana. Day 10. Tirana. Fly from Tirana, arriving at London Heathrow in the afternoon.

19–28 April 2023 (mj 686)

Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity

Archaeology, history, art and landscape

10 days • £2,960

Ruins at Butrint, photo ©Renaldo Kodra.

Day 4: Beauregard, Chambord. Beauregard has a unique 17th-century gallery lined with 327 portraits of historical figures. The creation of François I and the most ambitious of the Loire châteaux, Chambord startles by its vast size. Outstanding are the double helix stairway and the fantastical roofscape of cones, wedges, elaborate gables and chimney stacks.

The distinctive and affecting feature of these buildings was that Italianate motifs were grafted onto what were essentially Flamboyant Gothic forms. Round-headed arches, square-headed windows, classical pilasters and ancient Roman candelabra decoration blend with cylindrical towers and turrets, conical spires, high-pitched roofs and elaborate dormers to produce an effect which is unmistakably French.

9–13 September 2023 (mj 855)

The Renaissance in France

Day 5: Cheverny. Built in the 1630s, Cheverny is as elegant and restrained as Baroque can get and is unmistakably French with its chiselled façade and dramatic roofline, and sumptuously decorated and furnished interiors. Drive to Paris and then continue by Eurostar to London St Pancras, arriving c. 7.30pm.

Most of the châteaux are well furnished and much decoration survives or has been well recreated. Several have gardens, among which are some fine recreations of the original Renaissance design. This itinerary provides a balanced and varied selection, and aims to side-step the crowds. Itinerary Day 1. Travel by Eurostar from London St Pancras to Paris. Drive to the hotel in Chargé where all four nights are spent.

Day 2: Azay-le-Rideau, Langeais, Villandry. Lapped by the River Indre, Azay-le-Rideau is a jewel of the French Renaissance, replete with angle turrets, elaborate gables, classicising pilasters and evocative interiors. With its formidable defensive towers Langeais, reconstructed from the 1470s, is scarcely affected by Renaissance taste. Villandry is an excellent 1530s château with three arcaded wings but its chief glories are the tiers of formal gardens.

Châteaux of the Loire

Day 3: Blois, Chenonceau. The three wings of the castle at Blois were built in the latest fashion respectively for Louis XII from 1498, François I from 1515 and, the brother of Louis XIII (by Mansart) from 1635. Continue south to Chenonceau. Surmounting a bridge across the River Cher, the Château of Chenonceau (‘des Dames’) is one of France’s most treasured sights.

Pearson Includes only the best of the houses and gardens in the region. Stay at a château hotel in the centre of the area. The region around the lower reaches of the Loire was exceptional in a country still dominated by over-mighty French monarchs and riven by factionalism until well into the 17th century.

The relative stability of a territory submissive to royal writ, the prosperity arising from highly productive agricultural land and river-borne trade, and the excellent hunting, all provided the conditions for a building boom. Especially towards the end of the 15th century and the first half of the 16th, a plethora of palaces, lodges and retreats were erected at the behest of members of the royal family and their loyal followers. These beautiful residential buildings have become paradigmatic for furnishing the world-wide image of a fairy-tale palace. More importantly they were seminal in architectural history by constituting the first significant ultramontane manifestation of the Italian Renaissance. The sudden and whole-hearted admiration for all things Italian documented by the châteaux of the Loire was stimulated, ironically, by French invasions of Italy which began under Charles VIII in 1494 and came to an end under François I thirty years later.

5 days • Lecturer:£2,310DrSarah

Château de Blois, lithograph c. 1840.

An invigorating insight to one of the world’s most carefully designed and vital cities, following its development from the Renaissance to the present. Includes Jørn Utzon’s Bagsværd Church and PV Jensen-Klint’s expressionist Grundtvig Church, two great modern ecclesiastical buildings.

Itinerary Day 1. Morning flight from London Heathrow to Copenhagen. Walk through the historic centre and around the waterfront: from the 17thcentury Børsen, unique 18th-century Christian’s Church and crypt, to the great hall and gardens of Arne Jacobsen’s Bank of Denmark, the Black Diamond Royal Library, Danish Architecture Centre, Vandkunsten’s Torpedo Hall housing and Henning Larsen’s Opera House.

29 June–3 July 2023 (mj 780) 5 days • Lecturer:£2,570Professor

Running through everything is an aesthetic sensibility that combines clarity of line and shape with an informed elegance. From the brick and copper buildings of the Renaissance, through the Rococo wit and inventive Neo-Classicism of the 18th and 19th centuries, and on through early-20th-century Arts & Crafts and Nordic Classicism, this carefully nurtured and supported design tradition has evolved into Denmark’s now long-sustained tradition of humanist Modernism.

Day 3. A day on the Øresund shore. Visit Jørn Utzon’s hugely influential Fredensborg courtyard houses set around a common building and shared landscape. Continue to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Then to Helsingør and Bjarke Ingels’ Danish Maritime Museum, dramatically set in a dry dock overlooking Hamlet’s Elsinore Castle.

Day 5. Drive to Jørn Utzen’s Bagsværd Church, considered one of his masterpieces. Then to Amager and the School By The Sound designed by Kaj Gottlob, a celebration of light and air which set a tone for progressive education. Follow the ongoing development of Amager West and its university quarter and housing by Bjarke Ingels. Fly to London Heathrow, arriving early evening.

Day 2. Visit the landscaped Assistens Kierkegaard and PV Jensen-Klint’s expressionist Hanseaticgabled Grundtvig Church. See also Jacobsen’s Bellevue and Søholm developments, and the remarkable Nærumgårds allotments. End at the Ordrupgaard Museum and Art Park, with the home of the great 20th-century Danish designer Finn Juhl, as well as a fine art collection in a manor house extended by Zaha Hadid.

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Copenhagen Modern

Day 4. A walk includes the Strøget, the model for pedestrian-centred urban design worldwide. See the Nordic Classical police station by Hack Kampmann, Jacobsen’s functionalist SAS Hotel including the Orchid Bar, Martin Nyrop’s National Romantic Rådhus, and Bindesbøll’s Neo-Classical Thorvaldsen Museum. Free time.

The city is home to several world-class museums. On paper, Danish reads almost identically to Swedish and Norwegian, but hear a Dane speak and it sounds nothing like them. So, at first glance, Copenhagen might seem another wellordered, well-mannered, Scandinavian city set under clear light over a blue sea, but experiencing it reveals a unique place melding Nordic qualities with sophisticated continental traditions.

20th-century architecture in the coastal capital

Among the domestic architecture: Finn Juhl’s home, Utzon’s Fredensborg courtyard houses and Arne Jacobsen’s Bellevue complex.

A visitor to Copenhagen will find it difficult to think of another city in Europe which has worked so hard – but apparently effortlessly – at designing a place fit for the purposes of modern citizenship. It is this commitment that makes almost every aspect of living in the city a collective and individual pleasure, as well as a sustainable one.

Copenhagen, Grundtvig Church, photo ©Daniel Lorentzen.

The major buildings, monuments and art, a representative selection of all periods from Ancient Rome onwards. Covers vast swathes of the city, using private minibuses for efficient logistics. Private visit to the Sistine Chapel, shared with participants of Palaces & Villas of Rome. Rome presents three great challenges to the cultural traveller. Firstly, it is big. Items of major importance are generously strewn through an area that is around four miles in diameter. The second problem is that there are hundreds of such places in the Eternal City. The third challenge is that these items are from such a wide span of time – well over two millennia – for much of which Rome was the pre-eminent city in its sphere. This tour selects from the whole range of Rome’s heritage. The key has been generally to give preference to geography over chronology, proximity over theme. Walks explore a particular district, picking out the most significant buildings and works of art, glimpsing major and minor treasures – whatever the period. But it’s fair to say that the itinerary includes most of the most important places and works of art in Rome. There is a lot of walking, though use is made of minibuses. Not every place seen is mentioned in the description below, and the order may differ. Itinerary Day 1. Fly from London Heathrow to Rome. See the glorious Byzantine mosaics in the churches of Sta. Maria Maggiore (one of the four patriarchal basilicas) and Sta. Prassede. Evening lecture and drinks reception at the British School at Rome. Day 2. Today is largely devoted to Ancient Rome, beginning with the Colosseum, completed ad 80. The Forum has evocative remains of the key buildings at the heart of the Roman Empire. The present appearance of the Capitol, first centre of ancient Rome, was designed by Michelangelo, and the surrounding palazzi are museums. Day 3. The Basilica of St Peter in the Vatican was the outcome of the greatest architects of several generations – Bramante, Raphael, Sangallo, Michelangelo. Originally Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, Castel S. Angelo became a fortress and a Renaissance residence. Return to the Vatican in the evening for a private visit to view Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in peace, together with Raphael’s frescoes in the adjacent Stanze Day 4. The morning includes the superb Altar of Peace (Ara Pacis) erected by Augustus, paintings by Pinturicchio and Caravaggio in Sta. Maria del Popolo, and a walk in the Pincio Gardens to the Spanish Steps. The Palazzo Barberini is a great palace which became Rome’s National Gallery, with paintings by most of the Italian Old Masters. The Galleria Borghese is Rome’s finest collection of painting and sculpture.

Day 6. The morning is free. Drive in the afternoon to three contrasting churches dating to the early Middle Ages: the 6th-century circular Mausoleum of Sta. Costanza; the historically complex but exceptionally beautiful Basilica of S. Clemente; and St John Lateran, the cathedral of Rome.

Day 5. Among today’s highlights are the Pantheon, the best preserved of Roman monuments; the wonderfully adorned Piazza Navona; and the 5th-century church of Sta. Sabina. See also S. Ivo, a masterpiece of Baroque architecture with a cupola designed by Borromini.

7 days • Lecturer:£3,210DrThomas-Leo

Essential Rome

Day 7. Visit two churches to see paintings by Caravaggio: S. Agostino (Loreto Madonna) and S. Luigi dei Francesi (St Matthew series). Return to London Heathrow, arriving at c. 3.45pm. Right: detail from a ceiling in the Palazzo Barberini by Pietro da Cortona, 18th-century engraving.

The complete spectrum of art, architecture and antiquities

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28 February–6 March 2023 (mj 625)

The Early Christian and Byzantine mosaics at Ravenna are the finest in the world.

12–16 October 2023 (mj 940)

Day 4: Urbino. The Palazzo Ducale grew during 30 years of Montefeltro patronage into the perfect Early Renaissance secular environment, of the highest importance for both architecture and architectural sculpture. Its picture collection includes works by Piero della Francesca, Raphael and Titian. There are exquisite Gothic frescoes by Salimbeni in the Oratory of St John.

7–11 September 2023 (mj 858)

20–24 April 2023 (mj 687)

Private evening visit to San Vitale, Ravenna’s finest church, and the adjacent Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, to see the magnificent mosaics. Why combine them? Both are somewhat out of the way, yet near to each other.

Day 2: Ravenna. See the outstanding National Museum, with excellent Byzantine ivory carvings. The Orthodox baptistry has superlative Early Christian mosaics and S. Apollinare Nuovo has a mosaic procession of martyrs marching along the nave. In the evening, a private visit to the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, lined with fifthcentury mosaics, and the splendid church of S. Vitale with sixth-century mosaics of Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora.

Day 3: Ravenna. The Cathedral Museum possesses fine objects, including an ivory throne. Visit the Cooperativa Mosaicista, a laboratory for the restoration of mosaics (by appointment only and subject to confirmation) and the Mausoleum of Theodoric. The afternoon is free.

A study in contrasts: one a city with origins as a major Roman seaport, the other an enchanting little Renaissance settlement high in the hills.

Piero della Francesca, Raphael and Baldassare Castiglione were among those who passed through its exquisite halls. The justification for joining in one short tour these two centres of diverse artistic traditions is simple. They are places to which every art lover wants to go but which are relatively inaccessible from the main art-historical centres of Italy, yet are close to each other.

5 days • Lecturer:£1,890DrLuca

Ravenna was once one of the most important cities in the western world. The last capital of the Roman Empire in the West, she subsequently became capital of the Gothic kingdoms of Italy and of Byzantine Italy. Then history passed her by. Marooned in obscurity, some of the greatest buildings and decorative schemes of late antiquity and the early medieval era were allowed to survive until the modern age recognised in them an art of the highest aesthetic and spiritual power.

Byzantine capital, Renaissance court

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Ravenna & Urbino

In Ravenna, some of the greatest buildings of late antiquity with the finest Byzantine mosaics. In Urbino the Ducal Palace, the greatest secular building of the Early Renaissance.

Urbino, by contrast, is a compact hilltop stronghold with a very different history and an influence on Renaissance culture out of all proportion to her size. The Ducal Palace, built by the Montefeltro dynasty over several decades, is perhaps the finest secular building of its period.

Itinerary Day 1. Fly in the early afternoon from London Heathrow to Bologna and drive to Ravenna, where all four nights are spent.

Day 5: Classe, Rimini. Drive to Classe, Ravenna’s port and one of the largest in the Roman Empire. Virtually all that is left is the great Basilica of S. Apollinare. In Rimini, visit the Tempio Malatestiano, church and mausoleum of the Renaissance tyrant Sigismondo Malatesta. Drive to Bologna airport for an afternoon flight and arrive at London Heathrow at c. 8.00pm.

Ravenna, Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, wood cut by Giulio Ricci c. 1930.

8 days • £3,520 International flights not included

Day 5: Dénia, Parcent. Ascend into the mountains through orange and almond groves to Parcent for a wine tasting at Bodegas Gutiérrez de la Vega, a family-run business famous for their sweet Moscatel wine. Return to Dénia for a grazing lunch at the market.

Valencian cuisine is both ancient and new. Wind-dried octopus prepared to a 3,000-year-old Phoenician recipe is a revelation, as is the sweet luxury of almond biscuit accompanied by an ice cold Moscatel. The Moors held the Levante for 400 years and the phantom flavours live on. The final lunch is provided by 3-star Michelin chef Quique Dacosta, a whirlwind of inventive brilliance, theatre and caprice.

Flights not included but can be booked for you.

Gastronomic

There is nothing fresher or more vibrant than Valencian cuisine. The legendary huertas –market gardens, orange groves, paddy fields and orchards – are the city’s larder. Valencian markets are some of the most beautiful in the world; the Gothic silk market is a World Heritage Site. The tour includes experiences such as a paella cooking demonstration in a restaurant surrounded by rice fields, access to the fish auction in Dénia, and tasting goat’s milk cheeses and honey in the mountains. There is hospitality at great bodegas such as Casa los Frailes, source of wines served to visiting heads of state at Madrid’s Palacio Real. There are also everyday treats – a horchata, a tiger nut milk pick-you-up; an Aqua de Valencia, a fresh orange-based cocktail; and rifling the wine cellar and nibbling at a perfectly burnt brandade at Casa Montaña, arguably the best bar in the world.

Day 4: Gandia, Dénia. Drive south from Valencia to a remarkable orchard where around 400 varieties of citrus fruits are grown. Continue to Casa Manolo for lunch. In Denia watch the arrival of the fishing boats with exclusive access to the fish auction. First of four nights in Dénia.

Day 8. Drive to Valencia airport in time for the recommended return flight to London Gatwick (Easyjet, currently c.1.00pm).

27 March–3 April 2023 (mj 657)

Lecturer: Gijs van Hensbergen From the sea to the mountains of south-east Spain, a conspectus of Valencian cuisine. Myriad gastronomic influences, as well as current cutting-edge chefs, 3-star Michelin chef Quique Dacosta among them. Based in the vibrant city of Valencia and in the charming seaside town of Dénia.

Day 3: Valencia. The Museo del Patriarca houses a fine collection of religious art, then to the Museum of Fine Arts, one of the best in Spain. Paella originates from La Albufera, a freshwater lagoon on the Gulf of Valencia. Taste this authentic rice dish, cooked over a wood fire.

Day 2: Valencia. First to the fine modernista-style Mercado Central, one of the oldest-running food markets in Europe. Lunch is at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Valencia (tbc). In the evening visit the National Ceramics Museum.

Itinerary Day 1: Valencia. Leave from Valencia airport following the arrival of the recommended flight from London Gatwick (Easyjet, currently arriving 12.30pm). Flights are not included. Tapas dinner at Casa Montaña. First of three nights in Valencia.

Day 6: Fontanars dels Alforins, Cocentaina. At Fontanars dels Alforins, a wine tasting at the prestigious Casa los Frailes. Continue to Cocentaina for lunch at the family-run restaurant L’escaleta (2-star Michelin).

Day 7: Dénia. The morning is free before continuing to Quique Dacosta’s restaurant (3-star Michelin) for lunch.

Food and art in south-east Spain

Gastronomy Gastronomic Lombardy, April 2023 • Gastronomy & the Golden Age, 7–14 June 2023 • Gastronomic FriuliVenezia Giulia, 12–18 June 2023 • Gastronomic Basque Country, September 2023 • Gastronomic Piedmont, October 2023 • Gastronomic Sicily, 13–20 November 2023 – for all tours and events in 2023, see pages 28–31. Please contact us to register your interest Valencia, Mercado Central, photo ©Juan Gomez.

Day 3: Zagreb, Osijek. Overnight Osijek (Croatia).

The Western Balkans Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro 8–21 May 2023 (mj 714) 14 days • £5,420

Itinerary Day 1: Zagreb. Early morning flight (British Airways) from London Heathrow to Zagreb. Day 2: Zagreb. The westernmost place on this tour, the capital of Croatia ranks with the loveliest cities of Central Europe.

Lecturer: Professor Cathie Carmichael

A ground-breaking journey through one of the most politically complex and fissiparous yet fundamentally similar regions of Europe. Rural villages, imposing capitals and magnificent mountainous landscapes. Exquisite Byzantine wall paintings, fortress-like monasteries, Ottoman mosques, Art Nouveau architecture. This journey takes us to borderlands where, for much of their history, the South Slavs have been divided by competing empires and cultures. In Serbia, the Nemanjić dynasty flourished from the 12th until the 14th centuries and built monasteries that combined Byzantine and Romanesque influences. But from the early-15th century until the mid-19th century, the Ottoman Turks ruled Serbia, Bosnia and much of Slavonia. Meanwhile, the Habsburg Empire reached south into Croatia, and Venice dominated the cities of the Adriatic coast. The modern politics and structure of the Western Balkans were defined by the Congress of Berlin in 1878; the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, which created the first Yugoslavia; the Second World War, which ravaged the region and gave birth to Tito’s Yugoslavia; and, most recently, the maelstrom of the 1990s and the emergence of the present seven independent states. What are the Western Balkans like now?

Day 4: Ilok, Novi Sad. First of two nights in Belgrade (Serbia). Day 5: Belgrade. Day 6: Belgrade, Manasija. First of two nights in Kraljevo (Serbia). Day 7: Studenica, Sopoćani. Day 8: Višegrad, Sarajevo. First of two nights in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina).

Day 9: Sarajevo. Day 10: Sarajevo, Mostar. Overnight Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina). Day 11: Stolac, Trebinje, Tivat. First of three nights in Tivat (Montenegro).

There has been a major change in the past two decades. The capitals and main cities that we shall visit are all lively and welcoming, but each retains a distinct character. Croatia is prosperous and joined the EU in the summer of 2013. Its historic links to Vienna and Budapest can be seen clearly. Our other destinations are more complex and multi-layered. Belgrade is historically the extension of a strategic Ottoman citadel overlooking the Danube and Sava. Sarajevo combines mosques, Orthodox churches, squares and kafanas in a mountainous setting. Its troubled history is not far below the surface. The smaller Bosnian towns on our route (Višegrad, Mostar and Trebinje) have great charm. Kotor – in Montenegro – is a small fortified Venetian port city with a Romanesque cathedral on the shore of a fjord. A feature of this tour is that it takes in remote and functioning Serbian Orthodox monasteries that are of exceptional architectural and artistic interest. With some long days and much driving through hilly terrain, the late-spring and autumn departures will show the countryside at its best.

Day 12: Kotor, Perast. Day 13: Cetinje, Njeguši. Day 14: Tivat. Fly from Dubrovnik, arriving at London Heathrow in the afternoon.

Mostar, from ‘Balkan Sketches’, 1926.

A study of the evolution of Japanese gardens through the centuries. From Kyoto’s wealth of exquisite temple gardens to Tokyo’s hill-and-pond gardens.

Fine examples of ‘borrowed scenery’ at Nara, with its Buddhist temples and deer park, and Hikone Castle on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa.

Day 4. Visit Ginkaku-ji’s pavilion which overlooks a dry-landscape garden, and the garden at Chishaku-in. Optional: The Miho Museum.

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Day 6. Full day in Nara. The 12th-century Joruriji has a ‘pure land’ temple garden with pagoda and hall containing nine golden Buddhas. Day 7. Nanzen-ji is distinguished by its massive gate and quarters of the abbacy and contains important dry-landscapes by Kobori Enshu. See also the landscaped pond garden at Murin-an. Day 8. Hikone lies on the shores of Lake Biwa; the adjoining park Genkyu-en is a famous feudal garden. Continue to Kanazawa: first of two nights.

Day 3. Bullet train to Kyoto. The 14th-century Tenryu-ji is a Zen Buddhist temple with pond garden. First of five nights in Kyoto.

Japanese Gardens

12 days • £6,420 International flights not included

Itinerary Day 1. The tour starts with lunch in the Tokyo hotel. Visit the Imperial Palace and East Palace Garden. First of two nights in Tokyo. Day 2. See the vast landscaped 17th-century garden of Koishikawa Korakuen. The Nezu Museum has a collection of Far Eastern arts. Kiyosumi: a late 19th-century garden built for Iwasaki Yataro.

Day 5. See Ryoan-ji: one of Japan’s most abstract stone gardens. Kinkaku-ji retains aspects of the ‘paradise’ style. The temple compound of Daitoku-ji contains many dry-landscape gardens.

12 days • £6,610 International flights not included

Throughout the 1,600-year-old Japanese tradition of creating gardens, the chief consideration has been the depiction of a landscape. This approach was firmly established with the earliest gardens built in the fifth and sixth centuries under the expertise of architects and artisans from Korea and China, who introduced their scholarly taste for the elegant pond garden. From the continent, a variety of sacred landscapes deriving from Buddhist as well as Chinese religious cosmographies entered Japanese culture; Mt. Sumeru, the centre of the universe according to Buddhist legend, has frequently been represented through the centuries, as have been the Taoist Islands of the Blessed Immortals. This tour presents gardens from all periods of Japanese history, from ‘paradise’-style temple gardens and the enigmatic Zen Buddhist rock gardens of Kyoto, to the borrowed castle scenery at Hikone and the tea gardens of Kanazawa, to the amalgamation of all these styles in the imposing gardens of the samurai elite in Tokyo. It offers an insight into the incorporated symbolism and an opportunity to appreciate the relationship of gardens to the Japanese way of life.

Day 11. The 18th-century Rikugi-en offers superb views over its lake. Hama-rikyu is a peaceful retreat in the heart of the metropolis. Day 12: Tokyo. The tour ends after breakfast.

Tokyo, Kyoto, Hikone, Nara and Kanazawa

Day 9. Kenroku-en: one of Japan’s finest strolling landscape gardens; the villa Seisonkaku sits within its grounds. Day 10. Bullet train to Tokyo. Visit The Tokyo National Museum. First of two nights here.

Lecturer: Yoko Kawaguchi

9–20 November 2023 (mj 108)

Lecturer: Yoko Kawaguchi

More tours in Japan Art in Japan, 10–21 April 2023 (mj 674) Traditions of Japan, 8–20 May 2023 (mj 717) For all tours and events in 2022 & 2023, see pages 26–31. Visit www.martinrandall.com/japan for full details or contact us. Watercolour of an (unknown) Japanese Garden by Mortimer Menpes, publ. 1901.

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MUSIC IN VENICE 13–18 NOVEMBER 2022 This festival provides a unique opportunity to hear the authentic sound of La Serenissima. The city may be utterly enchanting to look at and its art and architecture among the finest achievements of western civilisation, but the maritime republic happens also to have been the centre of European musical life from the Renaissance to the Age of Baroque. Visit martinrandall.com for full details or contact us Contact us to register your interest: MUSIC ALONG THE RHINE 23–30 JUNE 2023 CELEBRATING WILLIAM BYRD 1–5 JULY 2023 THE JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH JOURNEY 4–10 SEPTEMBER 2023 THE THOMAS TALLIS TRAIL 20–22 OCTOBER 2023 UK CHAMBER MUSIC BREAKS: Castalian String Quartet, 3–5 March 2023 Linos Piano Trio, 21–23 April 2023 Elias String Quartet, 8–10 May 2023 Albion Quartet, 3–5 November 2023Photo ©Ben Ealovega.

Dr Alexandra Gajewski 22– 1 Oman, Landscapes & Peoples (mi 557)

13–19 Modern Art on the Côte d’Azur (mi 536)

Gijs van Hensbergen 17–29 Civilisations of Sicily (mi 553)

John McNeill 21–27 Roman & Medieval Provence (mi 556)

Monica Bohm Duchen 15 The London Squares Walk (li 539) Martin Randall 17–23 The Imperial Riviera (mi 550) Richard Bassett 17–26 Castile & León (mi 551)

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Dr Sophie Hay 12 The London Backstreet Walk (li 533) Barnaby Rogerson 12–14 Symposium:AncientGreece: People & Polis (mi 534)

Dr Michael Downes November 2022 2– 6 Art in Madrid (mi 565)

Dr Xavier Bray 7–12 The Story of Venice (mi 566)

Dr Michael Douglas-Scott

Dr Peter Webb 24–30 Raphael, in Celebration (mi 558) Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 25– 3 Israel & Palestine (mi 560) Dr Matthew J. Adams 31– 5 Opera & Ballet in Paris (mi 564)

Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 10–21 Japanese Gardens (mi 568) Yoko Kawaguchi 10–25 Patagonia: ‘Uttermost Part of the Earth’ (mi 569) Chris Moss 13–18 MUSIC IN VENICE (mi 570) 21–26 Venice Revisited (mi 573)

Dr Susan Steer 8–12 Venetian Palaces (mi 567)

October 2022 3– 9 Istanbul Revealed (mi 518) Jeremy Seal 3–10 Gastronomic Puglia (mi 517) Christine Smallwood 4– 9 Palladian Villas (mi 520) Dr Sarah Pearson 5 Whitehall (li 521) Martin Randall 6–14 Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden (mi 525) Dr Jarl Kremeier 7–15 Basilicata & Calabria (mi 527) John McNeill 10–17 Walking in Southern Tuscany Dr Thomas-Leo True 11–14 Connoisseur’s Pompeii (mi 535)

Dr Susan Steer 21–27 Florence Revisited (mi 575)

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Dr Luca Leoncini 21–27 Christmas in Holland (mi 590) Dr Sophie Oosterwijk 21–27 Vienna at Christmas (mi 592)

At the time of printing, spaces are available on Dresden at Christmas and Umbrian Christmas – please contact us for full information or visit www.martinrandall.com

December 2022 20–27 Palermo at Christmas (mi 588)

Left: Turkish design, from ‘The Grammar of Ornament’ by Owen Jones, 1865. Below: Vienna, Schloss Schönbrunn, mid-20th-century etching by Luigi Kasimir.

Dr Jarl Kremeier 21–27 Dresden at Christmas (mi 594) Tom Abbott 21–28 Umbrian Christmas (mi 596) Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 22–27 Paris at Christmas (mi 598) Patrick Bade

Several of our tours in 2023 are now available to book (any listed with a code in brackets here). Visit www.martinrandall.com for full details.

February 2023 21– 2 Israel & Palestine (mj 626)

January 2023 17–23 Valletta Baroque Festival (mj 605) Andrew Hopkins 28– 3 Mozart in Salzburg Richard Wigmore

Carolyn Perry 20–24 Ravenna & Urbino (mj 687)

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Dr Hugh Doherty 17–22 Pompeii & Herculaneum (mj 683)

Dr Mark Grahame 18–26 Cornish Houses & Gardens Anthony Lambert 19–27 The Cathedrals of England Jon Cannon 19–28 Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity (mj 686)

Dr Luca Leoncini 21–23 UK Chamber Music Break: Linos Piano Trio at The Castle Hotel, Taunton 21– 2 Samarkand & Silk Road Cities (mj 688) Dr Peter Webb 24– 6 Civilisations of Sicily (mj 692)

Dr Philippa Joseph 27– 3 Gardens & Villas of the Italian Lakes Steven Desmond Hamburg: Opera & ‘Elphi’ Berlin New Architecture Tom Abbott Music in Berlin

Classical Turkey Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones April 2023 3–11 The Ring in Berlin Barry Millington 10–21 Art in Japan (mj 674) Dr Monika Hinkel 12–19 Romans & Carolingians (mj 678)

The Venetian Land Empire Dr Michael Douglas-Scott Palladian Villas Dr Michael Douglas-Scott Tuscan Gardens Dr Katie Campbell Cities of Catalonia Gijs van Hensbergen

Dr Garth Gilmour 27– 4 Palaces & Villas of Rome Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 28– 6 Essential Rome (mj 625) Dr Thomas-Leo True March 2023 3– 5 UK Chamber Music Break: Castalian String Quartet at The Castle Hotel, Taunton 13–20 Florence & Venice (mj 643) Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 14–25 Indian Summer (mj 644) Raaja Bhasin 20–26 Cities of al-Andalus (mj 650) Dr Amira Bennison 21–25 Venetian Palaces (mj 652) Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 27– 3 Gastronomic Valencia (mj 657) Gijs van Hensbergen 27– 4 Cyprus: Stepping Stone of History Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 28– 4 Essential Puglia (mj 658) John McNeill Opera In Vienna The Printing Revolution Dr Michael Douglas-Scott Florentine Palaces Dr Fabrizio Nevola

Versailles: Seat of the Sun King Professor Tony Spawforth 12–18 Gastronomic Fruili-Venezia Giulia Marc Millon 14–23 Great French Gardens Steven Desmond 16–23 Medieval Alsace (mj 769) Dr Richard Plant 17–25 Gardens in the Highlands Colin Crosbie 19–23 Medieval Middle England (mj 772) John McNeill 23–30 MUSIC ALONG THE RHINE 23–30 Walking the Rhine Valley 29– 3 Copenhagen Modern (mj 780) Professor Harry Charrington The FlemishSchubertiadePainting

Dr Michael Downes Opera in Munich & Bregenz Verona Opera Dr R.T. Cobianchi

Dr Sue Jones West Cork Music Festival Art in Tyrol Dr Ulrike Ziegler Glyndebourne & Garsington Dr John Allison Lincolnshire Churches Great Houses of the North July 2023 1– 5 CELEBRATING WILLIAM BYRD 3– 7 West Country Churches John McNeill 10–16 Lusatia: Germany’s Eastern Borderlands Dr Jarl Kremeier 20–24 Savonlinna Opera Simon Rees Hindsgavl: Chamber Music in Denmark

Dr Michael Douglas-Scott The Medieval Pyrenees Dr Richard Plant Walking in the Cotwsolds June 2023 4–11 Medieval Burgundy (mj 754) John McNeill 7–14 Gastronomy & the Golden Age Gijs van Hensbergen 9–12

Subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter: www.martinrandall.com/newsletter-signup 29 May 2023 8–10 UK Chamber Music Break: The Elias String Quartet at The Swan, Lavenham 8–14 Walking Hadrian’s Wall Dr Matthew Symonds 8–15 The Duchy of Milan Dr Luca Leoncini 8–20 Traditions of Japan (mj 717) Professor Timon Screech 8–21 The Western Balkans (mj 714) Professor Cathie Carmichael 10–18 Aragón: Hidden Spain (mj 715) Dr Zahira Bomford 12–19 Courts of Northern Italy (mj 723) Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 12–19 Art in Scotland (mj 719) Christopher Baker 13–22 Classical Greece (mj 712) Professor Tony Spawforth 15–21 Great Swedish Houses Ulrica Häller 16–22 In Search of Alexander Professor Tony Spawforth 16–25 Anjou, Poitou & Saintonge John McNeill 18–29 Leipzig Mahler Festival 18–28 Moldavia & Transylvania (mj 727) Dr Shona Kallestrup 19–30 Samarkand & Silk Road Cities (mj 725) Dr Peter Webb Prague Spring Opera & Ballet in Copenhagen Dresden Music Festival Dr Christina Hatzimichael-Whitely Great Irish Houses Anthony Lambert Georgian Dublin Dr Conor Lucy Footpaths of Umbria Dr Thomas-Leo True Southern Tuscany

Isambard Kingdom Brunel Anthony Lambert Sussex Modern Monica Bohm Duchen

Dr Michael Douglas-Scott Walking in Northern Tuscany

Dr Thomas-Leo True Walking in Slovenia

Dr Philippa Joseph Gardens & Villas of Campagna Romana Amanda Patton Siena & San Gimignano

August 2023 26– 3 Mediaeval Saxony Dr Ulrike Ziegler The Hanseatic League Andreas Puth King Ludwig II Tom Abbott

September 2023 4–10 THE JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH JOURNEY 4–11 The Heart of Italy Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 4–11 Cave Art of France Dr Paul Bahn 5–16 Walking to Santiago Dr Rose Walker 6–11 Dutch Modern (mj 853) Professor Harry Charrington 7–11 Ravenna & Urbino (mj 858) Dr Luca Leoncini 8–15 Courts of Northern Italy (mj 859) Professor Fabrizio Nevola 9–13 Chateaux of the Loire (mj 855) Dr Sarah Pearson 9–18 Classical Greece (mj 856) Dr Dan Jolowicz 11–23 Civilisations of Sicily (mj 862) Christopher Newall 20–27 English Georgian Towns (mj 895)

The Industrial Revolution Paul Atterbury The Victorian Renaissance Christopher Newall Shakespeare & his World Dr Charles Nicholl Orkney: 5,000 years of culture

Tom Abbott 23–29 The Ligurian Coast Dr Luca Leoncini 25–30 Pompeii & Herculaneum (mj 903)

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VeronaRossiniTheOrgansMitteldeutschlandofBach’sTimeLucerneFestivalinPesaroOpera Dr Michael Douglas-Scott Drottningholm & Confidencen The Age of Bede Imogen Corrigan

Top: ‘The School of Athens’ (detail), engraving c. 1781. Previous page: detail from an 1821 engraving.

Dr Philippa Joseph 27– 5 The Cathedrals of England Jon Cannon 28– 4 Gardens & Villas of the Italian Lakes Steven Desmond Normandy Marc Morris Design & Modernism in Turin & Milan

Dr Nigel Spivey 25– 5 Essential Andalucía (mj 905)

Dr Michael Downes

Andrew Foyle 22–30 Basilicata & Calabria John McNeill 22– 3 Frank Lloyd Wright (mj 900)

Walking a Royal River Sophie Campbell

The Sibelius GastronomicFestivalBasque Country Gijs van Hensbergen

John McNeill 18–26 Two Spains: The Spanish Civil War & its Aftermath Giles Tremlett 20–22 THE THOMAS TALLIS TRAIL 21–29 Essential Jordan (mj 980) Felicity Cobbing 22–28 Modern Art on the Côte d’Azur Mary Lynn Riley 31– 5 Palermo Revealed Dr R.T. Cobianchi Wexford Opera Festival Gastronomic Piedmont Marc Millon & Cynthia Chapman Palladian Villas Dr Sarah Pearson Parma Verdi Festival Court Centres of the Po Dr Michael Douglas-Scott Footpaths of Umbria Nigel McGilchrist Renaissance Rivals Dr Michael Douglas-Scott ArtMoroccointhe Netherlands Walking & Gardens in Madeira Dr Gerald Luckhurst Istanbul Revealed Jeremy Seal Welsh National Opera Simon Rees In Churchill’s Footsteps Phil Reed

Subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter: www.martinrandall.com/newsletter-signup 31 October 2023 5–13 Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden Dr Jarl Kremeier 9–15 Malta: prehistoric to present (mj 930) Juliet Rix 12–16 Ravenna & Urbino (mj 940) Dr Luca Leoncini 16–25 Castile & León Gijs van Hensbergen 16–28 Civilisations of Sicily (mj 932)

November 2023 2– 5 Les Années Folles Patrick Bade 3– 5 UK Chamber Music Break: The Albion Quartet at The Castle Hotel, Taunton 7–11 Venetian Palaces (mj 105) Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 9–20 Japanese Gardens (mj 108) Yoko Kawaguchi 13–19 Art History of Venice (mj 110) Dr Susan Steer 13–20 Gastronomic Sicily (mj 111) Marc Millon 15–19 Art in Madrid (mj 112) Dr Xavier Bray 20–26 The Art of Florence Dr Flavio Boggi 30–13 Essential South India (mj 132)

Asoka Pugal Oman, Landscapes & Peoples Dr Peter Webb Opera in Naples & Rome December 2023

We usually offer around seven tours over Christmas and New Year. Please contact us to register your interest. 2024 February 2024 25– 8 Vietnam: History, People, Food (mk 181) Dr Dana Healy March 2024 9–22 Cambodia by River (mk 194) Freddie Matthews

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