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| 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.
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| We will be using
the same three-star 'superior' hotel as on the last Learn Italy
visits to Venice in 2004, 2006 and 2008. 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 easy walking distance. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| Evening lectures
will prepare us for what we will see on the following day. Alice
Foster will be the tutor on this study holiday. She is a frequent
lecturer for the Oxford University Department for Continuing
Education and for NADFAS, and has led many successful Learn
Italy trips to Italian cities, including our former visits to
Venice. |
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| The tour organiser
will be Martin Gray. For those who want company in the evening,
some group dinners at cost price will be organised. |
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| Arrive at
Venice Marco Polo airport c. 4:30 pm; bus to Piazzale
Roma; travel by vaporetto along the Canal Grande to hotel;
optional group dinner |
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| Morning
lecture followed by visit to San Marco; afternoon: Church
of San Zaccaria (altarpiece by Bellini); evening lecture |
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| Morning:
the Scuola Grande di San Rocco (Tintoretto); afternoon:
Santa Maria dei Frari (altarpieces by Bellini and Titian):
evening lecture |
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Free day; informal meeting in evening |
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| Morning:
Galleria dell'Accademia; afternoon: Scuola di San Giorgio
degli Schiavoni (Carpaccio); evening lecture |
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| Morning:
Church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli and Church of
the Angel Raphael; afternoon: San Sebastiano (Veronese);
optional group dinner |
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| Morning:
Santa Maria dei Miracoli; afternoon: flight back to UK |
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Per person,
single room (only a few available):
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Per person,
single use of double room:
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| Per person,
sharing a double room: |
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| 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; |
| bus travel between Venice
airport and the city; |
| coach travel from the
Cotswolds and Oxford to Heathrow and return (if enough
people are departing from the area). |
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| Flights from Heathrow
to Venice currently cost about £160. Information about
how and when tickets can be purchased will be supplied on receipt
of your booking form and deposit. |
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If you wish to
join this study week, please contact Martin Gray
at
01865 860984 or
enquiries@learn-italy.com
to receive a booking form.
Places on the holiday will be first-come, first-served,
based on receipt of the booking form and deposit.
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Guideline prices, excluding flights:
