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Expert-led cultural tours by Martin Randall Travel

Martin Randall Travel has the widest selection of small-group tours available covering a wide range of themes focusing on art, architecture, music, archaeology, history, gardens and gastronomy. Many tours involve elements of various themes, such as a combination of art history, architecture and music. Most of our tours run with between 10 and 20 participants. We strictly limit the numbers, specifying the maximum in each tour description, which is rarely more than 22 and often fewer.

Martin Randall Travel has the widest selection of small-group tours available covering a wide range of themes focusing on art, architecture, music, archaeology, history, gardens and gastronomy. Many tours involve elements of various themes, such as a combination of art history, architecture and music. Most of our tours run with between 10 and 20 participants. We strictly limit the numbers, specifying the maximum in each tour description, which is rarely more than 22 and often fewer.

Expert-led cultural tours Holidays

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The finest country houses and gardens in northern England, from medieval to Victorian, with an emphasis on the eighteenth century.
All aspects of the country house are studied – architecture, furniture, decoration, works of art; gardens and parks; historical context and daily life; conservation and custodianship.
Unrushed: there is plenty of time.

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Europe’s greatest concentration of classic modern art in the idyllic Mediterranean setting where it was created.

Old and new collections, with outstanding work by Renoir, Bonnard, Braque, Léger, Miró, Giacometti, Cocteau, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso.

Visits to the coastal towns and villages which inspired the artists, staying in Nice throughout.

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A musical voyage through Habsburg heartland via Europe’s most sublime waterway.

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Explores treasures which are lesser-known, rarely accessible or simply off the beaten track.
Access to many is by special arrangement; some are still in private hands. Also an after-hours visit to the Basilica di San Marco.
Includes visits to the islands of Murano, San Lazzaro degli Armeni and Lazzarretto Nuovo.

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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.

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.

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