10 holidays match your criteria.
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.
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
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.
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.
Superb music in elegant châteaux and churches along France’s greatest river
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.
A study of ten of Britain’s greatest buildings – their history, architecture, sculpture, stained glass and current life.
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.
Art and architecture in the major cities and small towns which lie along the Roman road, the Via Emilia.
Romanesque architecture and 16th-century painting are particularly strongly represented.
Based in the utterly charming ducal city of Parma and in the university city of Bologna.
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.
