Please contact Laura Gray via the contact form (the bottom of the home page) about any of these trips in which you might be interested, so they can be planned sensibly and you can receive the necessary information as soon as it becomes becomes available. Some may be very popular.
Naples: 20–26 January with Agnes Crawford
This will be Learn Italy’s first visit to this vibrant and fascinating city. There will be excursions out of the city to Pompeii and Herculaneum. This trip is complete and there are no places availabile.
Ferrara: 13–16 February with Alexandra Lawrence
For anyone who has read Ali Smith’s How to be Both, a visit to the Palazzo Schifanoia is imperative. We will enjoy the temporary exhibition at Palazzo dei Diamanti; Il Cinquecento a Ferrara. Mazzolino, Ortolano, Garofalo, Dosso.
Ravenna: 12–16 March with Verdiana Baioni
Superb mosaics from the fifth and sixth centuries with an expert guide.
Piero della Francesca: 26 September–October 2 with Agnes Crawford
Visits to find his paintings in Arezzo, Sansepolcro, Urbino, Perugia and Monterchi.
Parma 9–13 October
These are the probable dates for next year’s Verdi Festival. The programme is still to be organised.
Venice 17–23 November with Patrick Doorly
Any journey on Vaporetto Number 1 is surely amongst the most wonderful boat trips in the world, and is surely never disappointing. This trip is complete and there are no places available.
