Hospes Non Hospi – A Guest Not A Stranger
Tours & Study Days At
Ciceroni Travel
Our company name, CICERONI, is the Italian word for a group of eighteenth century ‘Grand Tour’ guides. We create and conduct our tours in the relaxed and informative manner of the Grand Tour with a particular accent on private visits. We use comfortable hotels in enviable country and city locations while good food and wine are an important part of our sense of hospitality. Our study days focus on individual themes, collections and exhibitions, offering an independent overview of each subject, many of which complement our tour programme.
Dutch & Spanish masters
REMBRANDT & Velázquez
Netherlands
Tuesday 7 - Friday 10 January 2020 (4 Days)
As part of 2019: The Year of Rembrandt, celebrating the 400th anniversary of his birth, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, in conjunction with Madrid’s Prado, have organised an exhibition which will examine the work of both these painters in the company of their major contemporaries. Our visit will place them in their historic context with time spent in both The Hague and Amsterdam.
Dutch & Spanish masters
REMBRANDT & Velázquez
Netherlands
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 January 2020 (4 Days)
As part of 2019: The Year of Rembrandt, celebrating the 400th anniversary of his birth, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, in conjunction with Madrid’s Prado, have organised an exhibition which will examine the work of both these painters in the company of their major contemporaries. Our visit will place them in their historic context with time spent in both The Hague and Amsterdam.
Study Day
Art & Spectacle
George IV:
UK
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Uniting the eye of a ‘connoisseur’ with the duties of a monarch has not been much in evidence over the centuries. However, one of the great exceptions was George IV who formed an unrivalled collection of art. We shall explore much of this, which remains in the Royal Collection, to be displayed in a landmark exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery.
Havana & Western Cuba
A Key to the New World
Cuba
Thursday 5 - Monday 16 March 2020 (12 Days)
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 in bonn
a symphonic revolution
Germany
Sunday 15 - Sunday 22 March 2020 (8 Days)
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.
Discover raphael's rome
painters & popes
Italy
Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 March 2020 (5 Days)
This tour to Rome is timed to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death and we shall trace his life and work in the city over the twelve years of his Roman career - to include the exhibition which will take place in Rome early in 2020, when major works from all over the world will return to Rome, many of them for the first time since originally created.