Italy
SARDINIA - BIRDS, FLOWERS & NURAGHI
As well as surveying Sardinia's abundant fauna and flora, this course will introduce... more
ROMAN & BYZANTINE RAVENNA
Today a small, tranquil town of cobbled streets, Ravenna once ranked as one of the Mediterranean's... more
POMPEII WITH HERCULANEUM
Meanwhile on Mt Vesuvius broad sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several... more
ITALIAN LAKES, VILLAS AND GARDENS
It was in Italy that the renewed interest in Classical precedents – otherwise known... more
VILLAS & GARDENS IN LAZIO
From the age of antiquity through the Renaissance and Baroque periods and up to the present... more
FRIULI-VENEZIA-GIULIA
The province of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, occupying the north-east corner of Italy,... more
ART & GASTRONOMY OF TUSCANY
Where better to savour Tuscany’s unique culinary inheritance than amidst the artistic... more
POMPEII WITH HERCULANEUM
Meanwhile on Mt Vesuvius broad sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several... more
PALLADIO & THE VILLAS OF THE VENETO
Even five centuries after his birth, Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) remains one of the most... more
RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ROME
Raphael and Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Bernini... an Italian quartet inexorably... more
RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ROME
Raphael and Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Bernini... an Italian quartet inexorably... more
