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26 January - 1 February, 2006
 
Mid-winter is the best time to visit Venice. The galleries and other venues are not crowded with tourists. January in Venice is usually dry, with little risk of the notorious aqua alta. It will be cold, but it can be sunny too, with wonderful effects of light, whether clear or misty.
 
We will be using the same three-star 'superior' hotel as on the last Learn Italy visit to Venice in 2004. It has all the facilities we need, but above all it is excellently placed, only a short walk from San Marco, and very close to a stop for Vaporetto 1, which plies up and down the Grand Canal, and is the key to travelling around the city and the islands. There are several restaurants within walking distance.
 
We will visit the basilica of San Marco, famous galleries such as the Accademia, and a number of famous churches and Scuole which house paintings by Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Carpaccio, Tintoretto and Veronese. Our itinerary will almost certainly include the following: the churches of San Zaccaria, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Sebastiano, and Santa Maria dei Miracoli, and the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni.
 
We will visit these places on foot, but the vaporetti will shorten our journeys, and help us to become familiar with the network of canals, streets, campi, jetties, palazzi and calli, while remaining full of wonder at this unique and extraordinary city. You will have plenty of opportunity to make full use of your season ticket for the vaporetti, exploring the entire city, as well as San Giorgio and the Giudecca with their churches by Palladio, and, if you wish, the outlying islands.
 
Evening lectures will prepare us for what we will see on the following day. Alice Foster, who led our 2004 visit to Venice, will be the tutor on this study holiday. Her special interest is in introducing art and architectural history to non-experts and revealing the pleasure of looking at images, so you need have no previous knowledge of these subjects to enjoy this holiday. On the other hand, expert art historians will know Venice to be a source of inexhaustible interest, and a week of guided visits will reveal many new and exciting insights.
 

The tour organiser will be Martin Gray. For those who want company in the evening, some group dinners at cost price will be organised.

 
 
Guideline prices, excluding flights:
Per person, single use of double room:   £915
Per person, sharing a double room:   £795
 

These prices include:
six nights bed and breakfast in a central three-star hotel in Venice;
lectures on the art and architecture of Venice;
entrance fees to museums and churches;
a week of travel on the vaporetti;
coach travel between Venice airport and the city;
coach travel between the Cotswolds and Oxford, and Heathrow (if enough people are departing from the area).
 
These prices do not include the flight to Italy. Flights from Heathrow to Venice currently cost about £150. Information about how and when tickets can be purchased will be supplied on receipt of your booking form and deposit.
 

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