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| At the time of writing there are still
places on all three of the trips detailed below. As with former Learn Italy
holidays, the prices do not include flights. |
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| I am now in the process of starting to
organise holidays for next year. Here are the likely dates for the first
two of these: |
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| Breathtakingly intricate and decorative
mosaics in seven of the eight UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the
exquisite and much-copied church of San Vitale, form the focus of this long
weekend in Ravenna, and offer plenty to delight the eye and mind. We will
also visit nearby Rimini to admire Alberti's influential but unfinished
Tempio Malatestiano, and spend a day in Ferrara, elegant home-city of the
Dukes of Este. The small central hotel in which we will stay in Ravenna
limits the size of this group to about a dozen. |
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single use of double room: £670
sharing a double room: £485
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| This unusual study holiday will be centred
in the seaside resort of Riccione. From there we will make trips by coach
and train to four very different cities. Ravenna, to the north, is famous
for its exquisite sixth-century mosaics. Urbino, a hill town in the Marche,
is dominated by the Federigo di Montefeltro's Ducal Palace, a masterpiece
of Renaissance architecture, which now houses an excellent art gallery.
Another famous Renaissance building, Alberti's Tempio Malatestiano, is to
be found in the historic centre of Rimini, Italy's most famous seaside town,
and only a ten-minute train journey from Riccione. The farthest away of
our destinations - is Ascoli Piceno, a jewel-like medieval city nestling
in the mountains of the Marche. The holiday prices include supper at our
four-star hotel every night. |
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single use of double room: £895
sharing a double room: £795 |
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| Parma is best known for its cheese and
ham, but it is an attractive, elegant and spacious city with a superb Romanesque
cathedral and baptistery, the work of the twelfth-century sculptor and architect
Benedetto Antelami. Modena's masterpiece is also a Romanesque cathedral,
one of the finest in Italy, with an ornately sculpted west front also unusually
by a named twelfth-century artist, Wiligelmus. These wonderful buildings
will be the focus of the visit, along with other Romanesque monuments in
the area. There will also be plenty of opportunity to see other aspects
of the two cities. For example, Parma's Galleria Nazionale houses a magnificent
collection of works by Correggio and Parmigianino, among other famous local
painters. |
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single use of double room: £780
sharing a double room: £665 |
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| Classes at five stages are offered, so
the school can cater for Italian speakers at all levels, even absolute beginners
in certain weeks. You will learn Italian in small groups all morning, and
explore Genoa (and do your homework) in the afternoon. Various kinds of
accommodation are available, from home-stays to four-star hotels. Flights
to Genoa are inexpensive, and being off the main tourist routes, this is
a cheap city in which to live. I can help you attend this language school
at any time of year, but don't go in the summer, when it is thronged with
students; March and November are good out-of-season months. |
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six nights at a central two-star hotel plus twenty hours tuition: £425 |
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| Four possibilities for next year are in
the offing. Study visits to Venice and Madrid require little or no explanation.
A Learn Italy visit to Sicily is likely to be a departure from former single-venue
ventures. This will be a trip of perhaps ten days, and involve travelling
around the island, with three stopovers. |
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For further information about any of these study holidays, please contact
Martin Gray:
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Telephone:
E-mail: martin.gray9@btopenworld.com
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