Holiday Extras

Cuba - is there another country in the Caribbean which has proved to be so endlessly fascinating in recent times? Explore the colonial and contemporary history of this remarkable country as it seeks to enter the modern world, albeit to a different rhythm to everyone else, the shadow of revolution still in the background.

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 and we celebrate the 250th anniversary of this occasion when we take a group to Bonn next March for a Festival Week when all his symphonies will be performed, supported by visits to Cologne, Aachen, Brühl and elsewhere.

Piero della Francesca is one of the most fascinating, if enigmatic, of renaissance painters. His cool, majestic style is a vital part of the fifteenth century’s quest to find newly expressive approaches to religious narrative and one fully explored during this tour based in lovely Arezzo.