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Cultural Cruises

Our small ship cruises - for between 16 to 40 participants - will visit Tunisia, Libya, the Nile, Provence, Greece, Turkey, the Galapagos and Scotland.

Christmas & New Year

Our selection of Christmas 2009 and New Year 2010 cultural itineraries, covering some of Europe's finest art, architecure and music, has just been published.

English Heritage

ACE's English Heritage Collection includes an after-hours visit to the inner circle at Stonehenge, Victorian afternoon tea at Osborne House and an investigation into 100 years of British spying.

Archaeology

Our programme for 2009 covers every aspect of British, European and world archaeology and includes tours of Wessex, Syria, ancient Sicily, Jordan, the Aegean and Albania.

Natural History

We continue to expand our natural history tours, with adventurous itineraries in Madagascar and Ecuador as well as courses in Fenland and Breckland and Suffolk.

Music

In 2009 we celebrate the anniversaries of Mendelssohn and Haydn, visit the world's most beautiful music festival in Lofoten and hear Wagner's Ring in Vienna and Seattle.

Architecture

Renaissance and Baroque Saxony and Art Deco Paris feature amongst our new architecture itineraries for 2009. We also visit regions as disparate as Prussia and the Italian Marches.

Art

Flemish Painting, the French Impressionists, the art treasures of Bavaria, Madrid, St Petersburg, Venice and Rome - our art tours will explore all this and more in 2009.

Historical

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Cuba After Castro, Regensburg and Bavaria - these are just three of our new tours for 2009 alongside Chinese Civilisation, Historic Malta and Moorish Spain.

Houses & Gardens

The Gardens of Istanbul and Cambridgshire Historic Gardens take their place on our 2009 programme alongside stately homes, historic houses and Italian villas.

Gastronomy

What better way to absorb a region's cultural traditions than through its cuisine and wines - as we will discover on our gastronomy, art and architecture tour of Tuscany?

Theatre & Literature

Shakepeare's Troilus and Cressida at London's Globe lies at the heart of our programme alongside Julius Caesar and As You Like It at Stratford's Courtyard Theatre.