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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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India’s leading cities, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi, former centres of British governance.

A wealth of imperial architecture from the 18th to the mid-20th centuries, as well as the magnificent Islamic monuments of Delhi.

Private visits and special access are a feature of the tour.

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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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