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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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A comprehensive survey of the principal Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic sites in mainland Greece.

Highlights include Mycenae, Olympia, Delphi.

In Athens, a full day on the Acropolis and in the ancient Agora.

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A fascinating selection of places which have the common feature of relating to the last years of the Raj.

Shimla, the grandest hill station, the buildings a hotch-potch of European styles. Reached by the famous mountain ‘toy train’.

Chandigarh, the modern ideal city built by Le Corbusier

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Architectural excellence throughout including the cathedrals of Burgos and León. Much fine sculpture as well.

Walled villages, grand monasteries, hilltop castles and a backdrop of vast, undulating landscape.

Includes the 16th-century Palace of El Escorial.

Good food: suckling pig, slow-roast lamb and kid; good wine of the Ribera del Duero.

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A study of ten of Britain’s greatest buildings – their history, architecture, sculpture, stained glass and current life.

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Remarkable landscape, hill forts, traditional souqs, archaeological sites.

The toehold of Arabia, with a diverse population reflecting its mercantile past.

A night in a desert camp and two nights in a luxury hotel in the mountains of the Jabal Akhdar.

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