Update October 2024
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L’Ancien Régime
Paris before the Revolution
6–9 March 2025 (ml 634)
4 days • £2,410
Lecturer: Prof. Glenn Richardson
Focused tour examining the arts, architecture and history of pre-Revolutionary Paris.
Magnificent interiors from the heyday of France’s Ancien Régime.
Includes a visit to the domain of Chantilly, once a rival to Versailles.
Despite its temporary eclipse by Louis XIV’s Versailles, before the Revolution Paris never ceased to be the true heart of France. All the absolutist monarchs of the Bourbon dynasty embellished it. In the 18th century, the city grew in size and became once more the kingdom’s capital of culture, famed throughout Europe as a school of manners, a showcase for luxury trades, and a byword for amorous pleasures, where opulence jostled with Dickensian poverty.
The tour goes in search of the vestiges of this lost Paris, mostly swept away since the Revolution. We visit former homes of French princes and nobles with their sumptuous interiors in the latest styles; squares and gardens announcing novelties in urban planning; and sites evoking famous moments in history, including the Revolution. The tour ends to the north of Paris with a visit to Chantilly, a mini-Versailles.
Visits have been chosen for ease of access and to illustrate high points and rarities both artistic and historical, links with famous names, and sites of major monuments since vanished.
Itinerary
Day 1. Take the Eurostar from London St Pancras at c. 10.30am. Drive to the Marais and visit the Hôtel de Soubise, its Rococo interiors considered masterpieces of the style. Continue to the Musée Carnavalet, the museum of Paris, with period
rooms and memorabilia from the Revolution. End at the Place des Vosges, an early example (1612) of a planned urban development.
Day 2: Paris. Morning lecture and walk through the gardens of the Palais Royal, residence of the regent, Philippe d’Orléans (1715–22), its shops and opera house famous places of public resort. Continue to the Louvre. In Louis XIV’s minority this was the chief seat of the monarchy and Paris residence of his mother the Queen-Regent. The young Louis improved the Louvre itself with the superb Galerie d’Apollon. We also visit the site of the Tuileries palace, gilded prison to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, where the monarchy fell on August 10th, 1792.
Day 3: Paris. Morning lecture before visiting the newly-restored Galerie Dorée housed in the Banque de France, a mini-Hall of Mirrors, remnant of a princely town-house. Continue to the Hôtel de la Marine, a Louis XV building used to house the Royal Furnishings Department. See superbly restored examples of the neo-Classical Louis XVI style in interior decoration. Finish at the medieval Conciergerie. Marie-Antoinette’s last days were spent in solitary confinement in a cell on this site, turned by her brother-in-law Louis XVIII (1814–24) into the expiatory chapel visitable today.
Day 4. Chantilly. Drive north to the domain of Chantilly, seat of the princes de Condé, hugely wealthy royal cousins who held court here before the Revolution, when Jules-Hardouin Mansart’s Grand Château was razed, to be entirely rebuilt in the late 1800s for the duc d’Aumale, an Orléans prince. Chantilly now houses his collections, as well as important vestiges of the old estate. Return to Paris for the afternoon Eurostar arriving at London St Pancras at c. 6.30pm.
This tour is subject to the confirmation of a number of special arrangements and some places may close at short notice.
Chantilly, photograph ©Jez Timms/Unsplash.
Moving on: Architecture & Memory
Bauhaus to the present in Stuttgart, Ulm and Munich
10–16 June 2025 (ml 715)
7 days • £3,470
Lecturer: Tom Abbott
Modernist and modern architecture in southern Germany, Bauhaus to the present.
Investigates the impact of politics and ideology, destruction and reconstruction, on urban design.
Based in the state capitals of Stuttgart and Munich, each major centres for art, architecture, culture and politics.
This tour celebrates great architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries in the south of Germany. It has been designed to go beyond aesthetics and technology and to explore the divergent strands of ideology and ethos which formed the context for architectural endeavour. No other European country has in the last hundred years experienced the same degree of turbulence and reversal of fortune. None has seen a comparable level of innovation and original thought, in all spheres –and of reaction and antagonism to novelty.
The optimism and utopian spirit in the aftermath of the First World War was universal, but in Germany the search for radical solutions was more intense and more mainstream –and more violently opposed. The Bauhaus, worldwide the most influential art school of the last century, and the Deutscher Werkbund were both incubators of the modernism we now see all around us. Both were snuffed out by National Socialism, which imposed an orthodoxy of aggressive Neo-Classicism.
Postwar Germany saw a re-emergence of dynamic modernism in building projects that rose, quite literally, from the ruins. Democratic design principles and avoidance of monumentalism increasingly informed architecture and design in the 1950s and 1960s. This spirit was exemplified by the Ulm School of Design, which renewed Bauhaus ideals. This trend
reached its culmination in the groundbreaking solutions created for the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, two of Germany’s wealthiest states have seen a flowering of brilliant new buildings in the past two decades.
Itinerary
Day 1: Stuttgart. Morning flight London Heathrow to Stuttgart (BA). A city centre walk includes the 1922 Central Station, the new station, Stuttgart 21, and the public library. First of two nights in Stuttgart.
Day 2: Stuttgart. Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun contributed to the Weißenhofsiedlung, a 1927 housing estate. Visit two houses by Le Corbusier and the Staatsgalerie by James Stirling (1984).
Day 3: Ulm, Munich. The former Hochschule für Gestaltung (Ulm School of Design) was designed by Bauhaus student Max Bill. In Ulm’s new city centre see the Weishaupt Art Gallery and Ulm Museum. To Munich for the first of four nights.
Day 4: Munich. Examine the history and legacy of the Nazi regime: the Documentation Centre of National Socialist History (2015); Paul Ludwig Troost’s Führerbau. Then creative reconstruction postwar, the Alte Pinakotek and Munich’s first high-rise social housing by Sep Ruf.
Day 5: Munich. Visit the ‘Four-Cylinder’ BMW HQ by Karl Schwanzer and Olympic complex, by Frei Otto and Günther Benisch, both 1972. The Herz-Jesu church opened in 2000.
Day 6: Munich. Herzog & de Meuron’s 5 Höfe and Sep Ruf’s Neue Maxburg courthouse and office block. Free afternoon.
Day 7: Munich. Visit the Ohel Jakob synagogue (Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch 2004–06). Pass the Allianz Arena football stadium by Herzog & De Meuron (2005) en route to the airport. Arrive London Heathrow c. 6.00pm.
Stuttgart Library, photograph ©Michelle Tan/Unsplash.
Palermo Revealed
Art, archaeology, architecture and gastronomy
21–26 January 2025 (ml 617)
6 days • £3,320
Lecturer: Christopher Newall
A captivating city, richly encrusted with the art and architecture of many periods.
Exclusive visits: meals at two private palazzi and drinks at another; see the outstanding Palatine Chapel outside public opening hours.
See the spectacular mosaics at Monreale.
Sicily’s heritage of art, architecture and archaeological remains is exceptionally rich and varied, and Palermo is by far the most interesting of the island’s cities. Based here for all six days, the tour also has excursions to some of the best of the area’s patrimony just outside the city.
In the ninth century ad, when Byzantine rule was supplanted by that of Muslim Arabs, Palermo became the leading city on the island and famous throughout Europe for the beauty of its hillside position, its tradition of craftsmanship and its enlightened administration. In the eleventh century, Arab rule was swept aside by conquering Normans. By succumbing to the luxuriant sophistication of their predecessors they distanced themselves as far as is imaginable from their rugged northern roots. From a Palermobased cosmopolitan court they ruled an affluent and cultured nation with efficiency and tolerance.
The unique artistic blend of this golden age survives in Romanesque churches with details of Norman, Saracenic, Levantine and classical origin. Byzantine mosaicists were extensively employed, and more wall and vault mosaics survive here than in all of Byzantium. The tour includes not only the Norman buildings in Palermo but also the cathedral at Monreale.
The prosperity and power of Sicily began to wane from the later Middle Ages, but pockets of wealth and creativity remained, as Gothic and Renaissance creations demonstrate. Artistically, however, a final flourish was reached in the Age of
Baroque when churches and palaces were erected in Palermo and throughout the island which are as splendid and exuberant as anywhere in Europe.
Itinerary
Day 1. Fly at c. 8.30am from London City via Rome to Palermo (ITA Airways). Drive to Palermo where all five nights are spent.
Day 2: Palermo. Morning walk through the old centre includes a visit to several oratories. The afternoon is spent at the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia (Palazzo Abatellis), which has an excellent collection of 15th-century pictures, and at La Martorana and S. Cataldo, two outstanding Norman buildings. Dinner at a private palazzo.
Day 3: Monreale, Palermo. Monreale dominates a verdant valley southwest of Palermo, and its cathedral is one of the finest Norman churches with the largest scheme of mosaic direction to survive from the Middle Ages. A private evening visit to the Palatine Chapel.
Day 4: Palermo. Spend the day with the Duchess of Palma in an 18th-century palazzo facing the Bay of Palermo. The palace is the former residence of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of The Leopard, now the home of his adoptive son. Visit the city’s best market with the Duchess to select produce, before returning for a cooking class, lunch and a tour with the Duke and Duchess.
Day 5: Palermo. Visit the Chiesa del Gesù, an extraordinary example of Palermitan Baroque. S. Giovanni degli Eremiti is a Norman church with five cupolas and a charming garden. The cathedral has grand royal and imperial tombs. In the evening, there is a visit by special arrangement to an otherwise inaccessible palazzo, with Rococo interiors (used in Visconti’s film of The Leopard ).
Day 6: Palermo. Visit the Castello della Zisa, an Arab-Norman palace. Fly from Palermo via Milan to London City, arriving c. 6.30pm.
Illustration: Palermo, San Domenico, steel engraving c. 1850.
Art in Japan
Art, craft, architecture & design
4–15 November 2025 (ml 844)
12 days • £8,010
International flights not included
Lecturer: Dr Monika Hinkel
Many of the finest collections of Japanese art in museums and in situ in temples and shrines.
World Heritage sites at Nikko, Kyoto, Nara and Horyu-ji, and the art island of Naoshima.
Outstanding museum buildings by Tadao Ando, I.M. Pei and other leading architects.
Other aspects of Japanese culture, past and present, including gastronomy and gardens.
Itinerary
Day 1: Tokyo. The tour begins in Tokyo (flights not included). Visit the Edo-period Korakuen Garden, one of the best preserved in the city. First of three nights in Tokyo.
Day 2: Tokyo. Spend the morning in Tokyo National Museum, which houses some of the finest Japanese art in the world. Nezu Kaichiro’s extraordinary collection of Japanese and other Asian arts is perfectly presented in the eponymous museum, with a delightful garden.
Day 3: Nikko. Full-day excursion to Nikko, a historically important Shinto and Buddhist pilgrimage site with breathtaking mountain vistas. The 17th-century Tosho-gu Shrine complex was established here by the powerful Tokugawa Shoguns. Buildings are decorated with elaborate wood-carvings and beautiful paintwork.
Day 4: Tokyo to Kyoto. Start at the Ota Memorial Art Museum with its collection of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Travel by high-speed train to Kyoto, considered the centre of Japanese culture and dense with examples of art and architecture. First of five nights in Kyoto.
Day 5: Kyoto. Kyoto’s National Museum offers an impressive display of ceramics, painting, sculpture and textiles. Visit the zen temple complex of Nanzen-ji at the foot of the Higashiyama mountains. The Kodai-ji Temple is richly decorated with maki-e lacquerwork.
Day 6: Nara and its environs. A full-day in Nara, first capital of Japan. Birthplace of major religious development, here are some of the oldest wooden structures in the world. Visits include the temple of Todai-ji; the statues of the Hokke-do and Horyu-ji is Japan’s earliest Buddhist temple.
Day 7: Kyoto environs. A morning excursion to the Miho museum (subject to confirmation), designed by I.M. Pei and integrated into a forested nature reserve. The home of potter Kawai Kanjiro (d. 1966), a key figure in the folk art revival of the 1930s, is furnished with his work.
Day 8: Kyoto. The 14th-century temple compound of Daitoku-ji, is an important foundation of Japanese Zen. Its many sub-temples contain drylandscape gardens. Visit the Raku Museum and Nijo Castle with its lavish interiors.
Day 9: Kyoto to Naoshima, Uno. Take the ferry from Uno to Naoshima Island. With the islands of Teshima and Inujima, Naoshima forms part of the ‘Benesse Art Site’. See the striking galleries and outdoor installations that dot the landscape. Return to Uno by ferry. First of two nights in Uno.
Day 10: Uno, Naoshima. Return to Naoshima island by ferry. The Art House Project is a collection of traditional buildings that now house creative contemporary installations. The Chichu Art Museum houses several Monet paintings.
Day 11: Uno, Naoshima, Tokyo. The Lee Ufan Museum on Naoshima houses works by the artist and is the latest addition to the Benesse museums. Train to Tokyo (luggage by road). Overnight Tokyo.
Day 12: Tokyo. The tour ends after breakfast.
Illustration: Japanese woodblock.
Morocco
Cities & empires
2–13 April 2025 (ml 659)
12 days/11 nights • £5,810
Lecturer: Prof. Amira K. Bennison
From Rabat to Marrakech, including the imperial cities of Fes and Meknes.
Spectacular landscapes: the Atlas Mountains, valleys, palm groves, woodland, desert.
Watch the sun set over the dunes at Merzouga and visit the magnificent Roman ruins at Volubilis.
Morrocco’s boundaries are defined by four mountain ranges which shelter the fertile Atlantic plains and by three seas: the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the sand sea of the Sahara. One of the last nations to fall under colonial occupation in 1912 and the first to win its independence from the French in 1956. The sites along this route tell of the medieval Islamic empires and European interventions. Long drives on this journey, follow ancient trade routes, revealing dramatic landscapes, from fertile olive groves to snowcapped mountains and deep green palm oases.
Itinerary
Day 1: Rabat. Fly at c. 11.30am from London Heathrow to Casablanca via Madrid (Iberia), with onward travel to Rabat by private coach (c. 2 hours). First of two nights in Rabat.
Day 2: Rabat. On the Atlantic coast, Rabat is the successor to the Roman town of Sala Colonia which became a major city in the 12th century. Massive gateways and the striking Tour Hassan Mosque are seen, plus the 14th-century necropolis of Chellah, and a plethora of modern museums.
Day 3: Rabat to Fes via Meknes, Volubilis. Meknes was a small provincial town until the 17th century when the Alawi sultan Mawlay Ismail founded a vast imperial city to house his army of enslaved sub-Saharan Africans. To the north,
lie the ruins of Volubilis, the capital of Roman Morocco. First of three nights in Fes.
Day 4 & 5: Fes. Two full days to explore the extraordinary medieval city of Fes. The old city (Fes al-Bali) was founded in the eighth century and expanded in the 14th. In New Fes, we see the façade of the royal palace and the Jewish quarter.
Day 6: The Middle Atlas; Fes to Erfoud. Take the old caravan trail south, stopping at Midelt before crossing the Middle Atlas and descending along the Ziz valley to the Tafilalt oasis on the edge of the Sahara. First of two nights in Erfoud.
Day 7: The Tafilalt Oasis, Merzouga. Visit Tafilalt, the ancestral home of the current kings of Morocco. Evening excursion to see the sunset over the sand dunes of the desert of Merzouga.
Day 8: Erfoud to Ouarzazate. Follow a chain of palm-filled valleys west, crossing through the Dades valley. Leave the main road for the Todra Gorge with its vividly contrasting vegetation set against rock faces. Overnight Ouarzazate.
Day 9: The High Atlas; from Ouarzazate to Marrakech. The Taourirt kasbah in Ouarzazate is home of the infamous Glawi Pasha. Cross the High Atlas via the Tiz-n-Tichka pass. Descend to Marrakech for the first of three nights.
Day 10: Marrakech. The Almohad Kutubiyya Mosque minaret is the oldest of three 12thcentury mosque towers constructed in Marrakech, Rabat and Seville. In modern Marrakech, we see the Majorelle gardens. The Yves St Laurent Foundation is next door.
Day 11: Marrakech. Explore the architectural achievements of the 16th-century Sa’di dynasty. The Bin Yusuf madrasa, also a Sa’di building, is next to the 11th-century Almoravid Pavilion. Later visit the markets and Djemaa el-Fna Square.
Day 12: Marrakech to London. Fly from Marrakech to London Heathrow (British Airways), arriving at c. 4.45pm.
Illustration: Rabat, gate of Chella, early-20th-century watercolour.
Gastronomic Basque Country
Art, craft, architecture & design
1–8 September 2025 (ml 769)
8 days • £5,040
Lecturer: Gijs van Hensbergen
Includes two in restaurants with three Michelin stars. Excellent wines of La Rioja-Alavesa.
Architecture by Gehry, Calatrava, Moneo, and varied landscapes of coast, plain and mountain.
Based in Bilbao and San Sebastián.
Straddling the Pyrenees and divided between France and Spain, the Basque Country has wonderful scenery, a magnificent range of art and architecture and a culinary tradition which ranks with the best in the world. It is a land of abundance in many things, though there is one striking exception: tourists are in short supply.
The best of Basque cooking mixes a strong sense of tradition with startling innovation. From the all-male dining clubs, where friends cook for each other, to the indoor markets spilling over with smoked idiazabal cheeses and gleaming fresh fish, from the rustic cider clubs to the chic new bars vying for the ‘tapas of the year’ prize, Basques remain obsessed with the quality and provenance of their food.
Juan-Mari Arzak is the most famous restaurateur in Spain. Godfather to New Basque Cuisine, he has inspired a generation of chefs including Martín Berasategui, Pedro Subijana and Hilario Arbelaitz. Together they share no fewer than 13 Michelin stars. Today Juan-Mari cooks alongside his daughter, Elena, voted best Female Chef in the World in 2012; their restaurant consistently ranks among the world’s best.
From Bilbao we drive out to the Rioja-Alavesa, the northern rim of the most prestigious winemaking area in Spain, before moving on to San Sebastián, arguably the most gastronomic city in the world. Here there is some fine contemporary architecture, while in the upland valleys and hills is a vernacular of distinctiveness and beauty.
Itinerary
Day 1: Bilbao. Fly at c. 10.00am (Vueling) from London Gatwick to Bilbao, Calatrava’s spectacular airport. First of three nights in Bilbao.
Day 2: Bilbao. A morning walk in Bilbao takes in the medieval quarter, before lunch at the riverside Art Deco market. The afternoon is spent studying Gehry’s extraordinary Guggenheim Museum.
Day 3: Laguardia, Marqués de Riscal. Laguardia is the most picturesque of Riojan villages. Morning tasting at Bodega El Fabulista, where 32,000 litres of wine are produced annually by treading the grapes. Visit the bodegas of Marqués de Riscal for lunch followed by a tasting in the cellars of their Gehry-designed hotel.
Day 4: Bilbao, San Sebastián. See the Fine Arts Museum in Bilbao, before lunch at one of Spain’s most famous restaurants, Arzak. Despite its three Michelin stars, it remains very much a family business. First of four nights in San Sebastián.
Day 5: Getaria. The traditional fishing village of Getaria offers local specialities of txakoli wine and anchovies. Lunch is at Michelin-starred Elkano, where the day’s catch is grilled on a wood fire.
Day 6: San Sebastián. This is the gastronomic capital of Spain, sweeping elegantly around one of the finest beaches on the northern coast. Behind the ancient fisherman’s quarter is the old town with a wonderfully harmonious arcaded square at the centre and traffic-free streets lined with bars. Lunch is in a private dining club, a rare privilege.
Day 7: San Sebastián, Lasarte-Oria. Morning visit to the Chillida Leku open-air sculpture museum in San Sebastián. Continue to lunch at Martín Berasategui’s three Michelin-star restaurant in Lasarte-Oria.
Day 8. Drive to Bilbao for an afternoon flight to London Gatwick, arriving at c. 2.45pm.
Illustration: Bilbao, the Church and bridge of San Antonio, wood engraving c. 1880.
Walking Hadrian’s Wall
Roman civilisation at the edge of an Empire
12–18 May 2025 (ml 684)
7 days • £2,830
Lecturer: Dr Matthew Symonds
The archaeology and history of the largest Roman construction in northern Europe.
As the most spectacular stretches are accessible only on foot, this is by necessity a walking tour. Coach excursions enable the inclusion of all the major Roman sites and relevant museums.
Traversing England from the Tyne estuary to the Solway Firth, the Wall was conceived and ordered by Emperor Hadrian in ad 122 to mark and control the northernmost limit of the Roman Empire. The ambition was extraordinary, its fulfilment – far from the pool of skills and prosperity in the Mediterranean heartlands of the Empire – astonishing: a 15-foot-high wall 73 miles long through harsh, undulating terrain, with 80 milecastles, 161 intermediate turrets and flanking earthwork ditches and ramparts.
Numerous forts, many straddling the Wall, housed a garrison of 12–15,000 soldiers from across the Empire, including Syria, Libya, Dalmatia, Spain and Belgium. Supply bases and civilian settlements grew up nearby. As a feat of organisation, engineering and willpower, Hadrian’s Wall ranks among the most extraordinary of all Roman achievements.
A study of the Wall leads to an examination of practically every aspect of Roman civilisation, from senatorial politics in Rome to the mundanities of life for ordinary Romans – and Britons – who lived in its shadow. But the Wall itself remains the fascinating focus, and the subject of endless academic debate. To see the best surviving stretches of the Wall there is no substitute for leaving wheels behind and walking along its course.
Hadrian’s Wall, photograph ©Jonny Gios/Unsplash.
Itinerary
Day 1: Housesteads. Depart Newcastle Central Station or from the hotel, Matfen Hall straight out to Housesteads. With standing remains of up to 10 feet, this is the best preserved of the Wall’s forts. Remote and rugged, there are superb views.
Day 2: walk Steel Rigg to Cawfields; Corbridge. A thrilling but challenging walk (2.6 miles, c. 3 hours). Terrain is rugged and steeply undulating. Follow the Wall through the Whinsill Crag, the Wall’s highest point. Corbridge began as a fort in c. ad 85 but later became a large civilian town.
Day 3: walk Housesteads to Steel Rigg; Chesters. Another challenging walk that rides the crest of the faultline of dolerite crags (3.2 miles, c. 3 hours). There are some steep ascents and descents on rocky terrain. The rewards include preserved milecastles and staggering views. Chesters is the most salubrious of the forts set in a river valley.
Day 4: Vindolanda; Brocolitia, Chesters. Vindolanda is the site of ongoing excavations. Artefacts include famously, the writing tablets that uniquely document details of everyday life. See remains of the Mithraic temple at Brocolitia and the bridge abutments from Chesters.
Day 5: walk Gilsland to Birdoswald. An easy walk through low-lying farmland (2 miles, c. 2 hours). Included is the only mile with both milecastles and turrets visible.
Day 6: walk Walltown to Cawfields; Carlisle, Bowness-on-Solway. The final walk is spectacularly varied, from rocky hilltops to lowland pasture (c. 3 miles, c. 2½ hours). See the Wall collections in the Tullie House Museum, Carlisle. The Wall ended at Bowness-on-Solway.
Day 7: South Shields, Wallsend. At South Shields, Arbeia is a fine reconstruction of a fort gateway, as well as a soldier’s barrack block. Segedunum was the most easterly of the forts. The coach drops off at Newcastle station before returning to the hotel.
Opera in Santa Fe
Summer music in the mountains of New Mexico
27 July– 3 August 2025 (ml 750)
7 nights • £6,570
Flights are not included
Lecturer: Dr John Allison
One of the world’s great summer opera festivals in the spectacular New Mexico mountains.
2025 operas: Rigoletto; Die Walküre; The Marriage of Figaro; The Turn of the Screw; La Bohème.
Performances are introduced by John Allison and interspersed with optional visits.
Established in 1957, Santa Fe Opera was the brainchild of New York conductor John Crosby, who felt a home-grown opera company would provide a fertile training ground for young American talent – as well as the ideal complement to Santa Fe’s celebrated arts scene.
We stay in a comfortable hotel a 15-minute drive to the opera house. From here there is a gentle programme of visits and excursions.
Itinerary
Day 1: Santa Fe. Your room is available from 3.00pm. The tour begins with supper in the hotel restaurant at c. 8.30pm.
Day 2. A leisurely start to the tour with a 10.00am lecture to introduce the festival. Walk round the main plaza, the historic and contemporary hub of Santa Fe. Visit the low-slung, adobe Palace of the Governors. Adjacent is the New Mexico Museum of History which gives an excellent overview from Spanish colonisation to the creation of the atom bomb. The afternoon is free.
Day 3. Morning lecture on tonight’s performance. Walk to the New Mexico Museum of Art. There is the option of continuing to the Georgia O’Keeffe museum. Dinner at 5.00pm. Opera at 8.00pm: Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi) with Carlo Montanaro (conductor), Julien Chavaz (director). Gerardo
Bullón (Rigoletto), Elena Villalón (Gilda), Duke Kim (Duke), Stephano Park (Sparafucile), Marcela Rahal (Maddalena), Le Bu (Monterone).
Day 4. Morning lecture then visit to Museum Hill. Later, a backstage tour of the opera house is followed by a buffet dinner. 8.00pm opera: Die Walküre (Richard Wagner) with James Gaffigan (conductor) and Melly Still (director). Tamara Wilson (Brünnhilde), Ryan Speedo Green (Wotan), Jamez McCorkle (Siegmund), Vida Miknevičiūtė (Sieglinde), Sarah Saturnino (Fricka), Soloman Howard (Hunding).
Day 5. Morning lecture. The rest of the morning and early afternoon are free. We suggest a walk to Canyon Road, an attractive avenue of commercial galleries. 8.00pm opera: The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) with Harry Bicket (conductor) and Laurent Pelly (director). Florian Sempey (Count Almaviva), Marina Monzó (Countess Almaviva), Riccardo Fassi (Figaro), Liv Redpath (Susanna), Hongni Wu (Cherubino), Maurizio Muraro (Bartolo), Lucy Schaufer (Marcellina), Steven Cole (Don Basilio).
Day 6. Drive into the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Visit the cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people – resident here until c.1550. 8.00pm opera: The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten) with Gemma New (conductor) and Louisa Muller (director). Jacquelyn Stucker (Governess), Brenton Ryan (Peter Quint), Christine Rice (Mrs. Grose), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Miss Jessel).
Day 7. The day is free after the morning lecture. 8.00pm opera: La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini) with Iván López-Reynoso (conductor) and James Robinson (director). Sylvia D’Eramo (Mimì), Long Long (Rodolfo), Szymon Mechliński (Marcello), Emily Pogorelc (Musetta), Soloman Howard (Colline), Efraín Solís (Schaunard), Kevin Burdette (Benoît/Alcindoro).
Day 8. Free morning in Santa Fe. Early afternoon transfer to Albuquerque Airport.
Crosby Theatre, photograph ©Robert Godwin.
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Calendar | 2024
October 2024
18–24 OPERA IN SICILY (mk 525)
18–24 Roman & Medieval Provence (mk 524)
Dr Alexandra Gajewski
22–28 Modern Art on the Côte d’Azur (mk 530)
Mary Lynn Riley
24–31 Istanbul Revealed (mk 540) Jeremy Seal
24– 5 Samarkand & Silk Road Cities (mk 543)
Dr Peter Webb
25– 3 Sicily: from the Greeks to the Baroque (mk 526) John McNeill
26– 3 Essential Jordan (mk 480) Graham Philip
28– 4 Gastronomic Catalonia (mk 544)
Gijs van Hensbergen
30– 3 Florentine Palaces (mk 551)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
30– 3 Opera at Wexford (mk 549) Dr John Allison
30– 3 Art in Madrid (mk 550) Dr Xavier Bray
31– 5 Music of the Czech Lands (mk 552)
Prof. Jan Smaczny
November 2024
1– 9 Minoan Crete (mk 554)
Dr Christina Hatzimichael-Whitley
2– 9 Ancient & Islamic Tunisia (mk 555)
Dr Zena Kamash
5– 9 Venetian Palaces (mk 558)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
6– 8 Symposium: Roman Britain (mk 556)
8–19 The Making of Argentina (mk 560)
Chris Moss
9–22 Essential India (mk 572) Dr Giles Tillotson
11–16 Venice Revisited (mk 565) Dr Susan Steer
15–18 Chamber Music Break:
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective with Matthew Rose (mk 573) Dr Katy Hamilton
19–23 Ravenna & Urbino (mk 575)
Dr Luca Leoncini
25 Advent Choral Day (lk 580)
December 2024
20–27 Vienna at Christmas (mk 598) Tom Abbott
20–27 Bruges at Christmas (mk 600)
Dr Sophie Oosterwijk
20–27 Paris at Christmas (mk 599) Patrick Bade
20–27 Dresden at Christmas (mk 601)
Dr Jarl Kremeier
20–27 Venice at Christmas (mk 595)
Dr Susan Steer
20–27 Christmas in Emilia Romagna (mk 596)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
20–27 Naples at Christmas (mk 597)
Dr Luca Leoncini
27– 2 Modern Art on the Côte d’Azur at New Year (mk 606) Monica Bohm-Duchen
Tours listed with a code (e.g. ml 300) are available to book – for full details, visit martinrandall.com. To register your interest in any other title, please contact us. Dates for tours and events that have not yet been launched are subject to change.
Delhi, the Qutb Minar, wood engraving c. 1880.
Calendar | 2025
January 2025
13–20 Caravaggio: Lombardy to Naples (ml 613)
Dr Xavier Bray
20–25 Valletta Baroque Festival (ml 615)
Prof. John Bryan
21–26 Palermo Revealed (ml 617)
Christopher Newall
24– 3 Oman, Landscapes & Peoples (ml 620)
Dr Peter Webb
27– 1 Pompeii & Herculaneum (ml 621)
Dr Mark Grahame
28– 3 Mozart in Salzburg (ml 619)
Richard Wigmore
February 2025
5–10 Opera in Paris (ml 623) Dr Michael Downes
11–18 Renaissance Rivals (ml 624)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
17–24 Granada & Córdoba (ml 625)
Gijs van Hensbergen
24– 2 Palaces & Villas of Rome (ml 628)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
25– 3 Essential Rome (ml 630)
28– 4
Dr Thomas-Leo True
Hamburg: Opera & ‘Elphi’ (ml 631)
Dr John Allison
March 2025
3–10 Florence & Venice (ml 633)
Desmond Shawe-Taylor
6– 9 L’Ancien Régime (ml 634)
Prof. Glenn Richardson
8–13 Gardens of Madeira (ml 638)
Dr Gerald Luckhurst
10–14 Ravenna & Urbino (ml 640)
Dr Luca Leoncini
11–15 Venetian Palaces (ml 641)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
16–22 Modern Art on the Cote d’Azur (ml 639)
Mary Lynn Riley
18–29 Indian Summer (ml 642) Raaja Bhasin
19–24 Strauss in Berlin (ml 643)
Barry Millington
23–30 Gastronomic Andalucía (ml 645)
Gijs van Hensbergen
24–31 Walking in Sicily (ml 646)
25–31
Dr R.T. Cobianchi
Florence Revisited (ml 647)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
26– 4 Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity (ml 648)
Carolyn Perry
28– 5 Minoan Crete (ml 649)
Dr Christina Hatzimichael-Whitley
31–12 Civilisations of Sicily (ml 650)
Dr Luca Leoncini A symposium in Taunton
April 2025
1– 9
Normans in the South (ml 652)
John McNeill
1– 6 Opera in Vienna (ml 665)
Dr John Allison
2– 6 The Venetian Hills (ml 653)
Dr Carlo Corsato
2– 6 Art in Madrid (ml 654)
2– 9
Dr Zahira Véliz Bomford
Romans & Carolingians (ml 656)
Dr Hugh Doherty
2–11 Tuscany Revealed (ml 655)
Dr Flavio Boggi
2–13 Morocco (ml 659)
Prof. Amira Bennison
3– 7 Opera & Ballet in Copenhagen (ml 658)
3–15
Simon Rees
Samarkand & Silk Road Cities (ml 657)
Dr Peter Webb
5–14 Cities of Catalonia (ml 660)
7–13
10–16
11–13
Gijs van Hensbergen
Gastronomic Lombardy (ml 661)
Christine Smallwood
Val D’Orcia and the Sienese Hills (ml 662)
Prof. Fabrizio Nevola
Welsh National Opera (ml 663)
Simon Rees
11–13 Chamber Music Break: The Marmen Quartet (ml 664) Richard Wigmore
22–29 The Heart of Italy (ml 667)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
22–30 Cornish Houses & Gardens (ml 668)
Anthony Lambert
23– 1 The Cathedrals of England (ml 671)
Dr Hugh Doherty
24–30 Gardens & Villas of the Italian Lakes (ml 670) Colin Crosbie
25– 4 Classical Turkey (ml 669)
Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
25– 4 Ribera del Duero Gijs van Hensbergen
28– 3 Pompeii & Herculaneum (ml 673)
Dr Mark Grahame
28– 4 World Heritage Malta (ml 675)
Juliet Rix
28– 7 Medieval Saxony (ml 674) Dr Ulrike Ziegler
28–10 Civilisations of Sicily (ml 672)
Dr Philippa Joseph
May 2025
2– 8 Art in the Netherlands
2– 9 Courts of Northern Italy (ml 677)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
3– 9 The Ligurian Coast (ml 678)
Dr Luca Leoncini
4–11 Istanbul Revealed (ml 676) Jeremy Seal
5–12 Gastronomic Provence (ml 710)
Victoria Daskal
6–11 Palladian Villas (ml 680) Dr Sarah Pearson
7–15 Aragón: Hidden Spain (ml 692)
Dr Zahira Véliz Bomford
8–14 Medieval Toulouse & Languedoc (ml 703)
John McNeill
8–15 MUSIC ALONG THE RHINE (ml 693)
9–15 Walking the Rhine Valley (ml 681)
Richard Wigmore
9–16 Ancient & Islamic Tunisia (ml 683)
Dr Zena Kamash
9–19 Mahler in Amsterdam (ml 682)
Dr Paul Max Edlin
10–17 Medieval Normandy (ml 705)
Dr Richard Plant
10–19 Classical Greece (ml 679)
Dr Nigel Spivey
11–15 Gardens of Sintra (ml 698)
Dr Gerald Luckhurst
12–18 Walking Hadrian’s Wall (ml 684)
Dr Matthew Symonds
12–18 Gastronomic Friuli-Venezia Giulia (ml 686) Marc Millon
12–25 The Western Balkans (ml 685)
Prof. Cathie Carmichael
13–16 Norman Conquest & Plantagenet Power (ml 694) Marc Morris
13–18 Tuscan Gardens (ml 688)
Dr Katie Campbell
14–20 Shostakovich Festival Leipzig (ml 687)
Elizabeth Wilson
15–27 Samarkand & Silk Road Cities (ml 689)
Dr Peter Webb
16–23 Art in Scotland (ml 690)
Desmond Shawe-Taylor
19–23 Arts & Crafts in the Lake District (ml 691)
Janet Sinclair
19–25 Prague Spring (ml 702)
Dr Michael Downes
19–28 The Venetian Land Empire (ml 695)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
22– 1 Moldavia & Transylvania (ml 696)
Dr Shona Kallestrup
26– 1 Austria: Abbeys & Organs (ml 699)
Simon Williams
27– 2 Dresden Music Festival (ml 700)
Barry Millington
27– 3 Footpaths of Umbria (ml 701)
Nigel McGilchrist
30– 7 Medieval Burgundy (ml 704)
John McNeill
June 2025
2– 6 Great Private Houses in Norfolk (ml 707)
Dr Andrew Moore
2–13 Art in Japan (ml 708) Timon Screech
3–10 The Ring in Basel Barry Millington
6–18 The Road to Santiago (ml 712)
Dr Richard Plant
9–15 Traversing the Tyrol (ml 714)
Dr Ulrike Ziegler
9–24 Eastern Turkey (ml 713) Ian Colvin
10–16 Moving on: Architecture & Memory (ml 715) Tom Abbott
11–16 Leipzig Bach Festival (ml 716)
Prof. John Butt OBE
13–21 Great Irish Houses (ml 717)
Anthony Lambert
16–20 The Welsh Marches (ml 719) John McNeill
16–20 COTSWOLDS CHORAL FESTIVAL (ml 720)
18–30 Galleries of the American Midwest (ml 721) Gijs van Hensbergen
23–27 Lincolnshire Churches (ml 722)
John McNeill
23–29 Connoisseur’s Vienna (ml 725)
Dr Jarl Kremeier
24–29 Stockholm Modern (ml 723)
Prof. Harry Charrington
26– 1 Chichester & the South Downs (ml 727)
Janet Sinclair
30– 4 Medieval Oxfordshire (ml 730)
John McNeill
Houses of the Midcounties Treasures of Moravia Glyndebourne & Garsington/Grange
July 2025
1– 7 Great Swedish Houses (ml 731)
2– 6
7–13
11–14
14–18
Ulrica Häller
Flemish Painting (ml 732)
Lusatia: Germany’s Eastern borderlands (ml 736) Dr Jarl Kremeier
Versailles: Seat of the Sun King (ml 738) Patrick Bade
Savonlinna Opera I (ml 739) Simon Rees
14–19 In Churchill’s Footsteps Katherine Carter
16–23 MUSIC ALONG THE SEINE (ml 740)
20–25 Savonlinna Opera II (ml 743)
Dr John Allison
22–28 French Gothic (ml 744)
24–31 The Hanseatic League (ml 745)
27– 3
Andreas Puth
Santa Fe Opera (ml 750)
Dr John Allison
Bayreuth Festspiele
Beaune Music Festival
Gstaad Menuhin Festival
Lockenhaus Festival
Lofoten Festival
Shakespeare & his World
August 2025
4–11 Gdańsk & Eastern Pomerania (ml 752)
Dr Hugh Doherty
6–14 Baroque & Rococo (ml 753) Tom Abbott
13–20 Iceland’s Story (ml 760) Dr Chris Callow
22–28 The Schubertiade (ml 761)
Richard Wigmore
24– 1 Mitteldeutschland (ml 762)
Dr Jarl Kremeier
26– 1 Walking in Southern Bohemia (ml 763)
Martina Hinks-Edwards
31– 5 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (ml 765)
Anthony Lambert
Drottningholm & Confidencen
The Lucerne Festival
Salzburg Summer
September 2025
1– 5
1– 8
The Age of Bede (ml 767) Imogen Corrigan
Gastronomic Basque Country (ml 769)
Gijs van Hensbergen
1–17 Peru: the Andean Heartland (ml 766)
Dr David Beresford-Jones
3–10 Cave Art of France (ml 768) Dr Paul Bahn
4–16
Samarkand & Silk Road Cities (ml 771)
Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
5–12 Courts of Northern Italy (ml 770)
Prof. Fabrizio Nevola
5–13 Sacred Armenia (ml 774)
Ian Colvin
5–15 Frank Lloyd Wright (ml 773)
Prof. Harry Charrington
6–15 Classical Greece (ml 775) Dr Dan Jolowicz
7–11 Châteaux of the Loire
8–12 Castles of Wales (ml 781) Marc Morris
8–14
The Imperial Riviera (ml 776)
Dr Mark Thompson
9–16 Trecento Frescoes (ml 772)
Donal Cooper
10–17 Parma & Bologna (ml 777)
Dr R.T. Cobianchi
12–20 Great Houses of the North (ml 779)
Christopher Garibaldi
15–20 Gardens & Villas of Campagna Romana (ml 784) Amanda Patton
15–22 The Heart of Italy (ml 786) Leslie Primo
15–25 Georgia Uncovered (ml 785) Ian Colvin
16–23 Medieval Champagne John McNeill
17–25 The Cathedrals of England (ml 788)
Dr Hugh Doherty
17–26 Albania: Crossroads of Antiquity (ml 787)
Carolyn Perry
17–26 Scottish Houses & Castles (ml 791)
Alistair Learmont
17–28 Walking to Santiago (ml 778)
18–27
19–26
Dr Rose Walker
Sicily: from the Greeks to the Baroque (ml 789) Dr Mark Grahame
Gastronomic Asturias & Cantabria
Gijs van Hensbergen
19–29 West Coast Architecture (ml 790)
Prof. Neil Jackson
21–27 Early Railways: the North (ml 793)
Anthony Lambert
22–28 In Search of Alexander
Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
29– 4 Pompeii & Herculaneum (ml 801)
Dr Nigel Spivey
29– 4 Friuli Venezia-Giulia (ml 805)
Dr Carlo Corsato
29– 9 Essential Andalucía (ml 803)
Dr Philippa Joseph Art in Le Marche
Bayreuth Barockfest
Beethoven in Bonn
Cold War Berlin
Great Gardens of the South
Rhineland Palaces & Castles
Samarkand & Silk Road Cities
Thameside Houses & Palaces
Turner & the Sea
Yorkshire Modern
October 2025
2– 8 Gardens & Villas of the Italian Lakes (ml 807) Amanda Patton
2– 8 Piero della Francesca (ml 806)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
4–13 Bulgaria (ml 808) Dr Nikola Theodossiev
4–13
Sailing the Aegean (ml 818)
Dr Nigel Spivey
6–13 Habsburg Austria (ml 811)
Dr Jarl Kremeier
6–19 The Western Balkans (ml 814)
Mark Thompson
7–12 Bauhaus (ml 812) Tom Abbott
7–13 Modern Art on the Côte d’Azur (ml 813)
Monica Bohm-Duchen
7–14 Fiesole to Lucca: Tuscany on Foot (ml 816)
Dr Thomas-Leo True
10–18 Basilicata & Calabria (ml 810) John McNeill
13–17 Siena & San Gimignano (ml 780)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
13–17 Ravenna & Urbino (ml 815)
Dr Luca Leoncini
13–22 Castile & León (ml 825)
Gijs van Hensbergen
16–25 Extremadura (ml 826) Chris Moss
18–24 Gastronomic Piedmont (ml 828)
Cynthia Chaplin
18–26 Essential Jordan (ml 829)
Prof. Graham Philip
20–27 Footpaths of Umbria (ml 831)
Dr Thomas-Leo True
20– 1 Civilisations of Sicily (ml 832) John McNeill
20– 1 Traditions of Japan (ml 833) Timon Screech
23–30 Istanbul Revealed (ml 835) Jeremy Seal
24–30 Roman & Medieval Provence (ml 836)
Dr Alexandra Gajewski
24– 3 Oman: Landscapes & Peoples (ml 837)
Dr Peter Webb
27– 2 World Heritage Malta (ml 809) Juliet Rix
28– 2 Palladian Villas (ml 847)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
1492 Giles Tremlett
Cyprus: stepping stone of history
Opera at Wexford
The Douro
Tudor England
November 2025
1– 8 Ancient & Islamic Tunisia
3–10
Gastronomic Catalonia
Gijs van Hensbergen
Calendar | 2026
4–15 Art in Japan (ml 844) Monika Hinkel
4–16 Painted Palaces of Rajasthan (ml 843)
Dr Giles Tillotson
5– 9 Art in Madrid (ml 845) Dr Xavier Bray
5–14 Great Palaces of Italy Dr Luca Leoncini
6–17 Japanese Gardens (ml 846)
Yoko Kawaguchi
10–16 Art History of Venice (ml 849)
Dr Susan Steer
11–15 Venetian Palaces (ml 848)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott 13–16 Les Années Folles Patrick Bade
17–23 The Art of Florence (ml 852)
Dr Flavio Boggi
24– 1 The Printing Revolution (ml 853)
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
26–28 Chamber Music Break: Stile Antico (ml 854)
Gastronomic Sicily Granada & Córdoba Symposium
Venice Remade HANDEL IN VALLETTA
December 2025
We usually offer around seven tours over Christmas and New Year. Please contact us to register your interest – either call us, or send an e-mail to alerts@martinrandall.co.uk
February 2026
22– 6 Vietnam: History, People, Food Architecture of the British Raj
March 2026
7–21 Cambodia by River Bengal by River
May 2026
22–29 MUSIC ALONG THE RHINE
August 2026
14–21 MUSIC ALONG THE DANUBE
November 2026
Footsteps of the Buddha Mughals & Rajputs
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Online talks by expert speakers
A Tale of Two Cities: Kyoto and Tokyo
Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
£55 | View until 22 October 2024
Mozart’s ‘Figaro’ – a Marriage made in Heaven | Ian Page
£55 | View until 21 November 2024
Understanding Buddhist Art: A Journey of Cultural Connections | Freddie Matthews
£75 | Tuesdays, 17 September–22 October 2024
View until 17 December 2024
Conflict & Penance: the remarkable history of Henry II & Thomas Becket
Dr Hugh Doherty
£45 | Wednesdays, 9–23 October 2024
View until 18 December 2024
The Reformation and Art in Germany
Dr Ulrike Ziegler
£65 | Thursdays, 24 October–21 November 2024
View until 16 January 2025
Fake Heritage – from Artefact to Artifice John Darlington
£75 | Wednesdays, 6 November–11 December 2024
View until 5 February 2025
Questioning the First Christmas: the Nativity Story in Early Christian Traditions
Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
£65 | Thursdays, 28 November–19 December 2024
View until 13 February 2025
Early Christian and Medieval Rome: Architecture and imagery from Constantine to Innocent II | John McNeill
£65 | Thursdays, 5 December 2024–23 January 2025
View until 20 March 2025
Talks are broadcast live on Zoom at 4.30pm (London). Recordings are available exclusively for subscribers to view for up to eight weeks after a series ends.
www.martinrandall.com/online-talks
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