Berlin in the Twentieth Century
- Studies a city with the most turbulent 20th-century history of any in Europe.
- Buildings, streets, museums, memorials, ruins, art galleries – powerful sights, powerful associations.
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24–28 June 2009
5 days • £1,650
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Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden
- Studies the former capitals of Brandenburg-Prussia and Saxony.
- Both have immensely rich holdings of fine & decorative arts and architecture.
- Rebuilding and restoration continues to transform both cities.
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5–12 June 2009
8 days • £1,980
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4–11 September 2009
8 days • £2,080
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Dresden Festspiele
- Five concerts and recitals in four historic buildings including the Semperoper.
- Accompanied by an art historian who leads walks to see the architecture and art collections.
- Rebuilding, restoration and refurbishment has wrought wonders in this once shattered city.
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22–27 May 2009
6 days • £1,890
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Handel in Halle
- Five concerts, including two works for the stage (plus a musical church service).
- Operas: Ariodante, Serse.
- Visits to some places of outstanding interest in the vicinity including Bach’s city of Leipzig and Naumburg with its astounding 13th-century sculpture.
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4–10 June 2009
7 days • £2,040
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Mediaeval Saxony
- One of the most fascinating areas of early mediaeval art and architecture.
- Straddling the former border between East and West Germany and still relatively little visited.
- Some delightful landscape and attractive towns.
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28 July–4 August 2009
8 days • £1,580
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Rhineland Romanesque
- The Rhineland produced some of the most adventurous and sophisticated architecture of the Romanesque age.
- Small parish churches, great cathedrals, city and country, buildings, paintings and metalwork.
- Intensive and wonderfully rich study tour.
- First-class rail travel on Eurostar. Some lengthy drives once in Germany.
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9–15 August 2009
7 days • £1,720
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The Bauhaus
- The art, design and architecture of last century’s most influential art school.
- Includes the college buildings & several pioneering examples of modernism.
- A special exhibition in Berlin draws on the three Bauhaus Foundations in Germany.
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23–27 July 2009
5 days • £1,550
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The Iron Curtain
- A unique and exciting journey from the Baltic to the Adriatic.
- Criss-crosses between west and east, assessing the impact of the Iron Curtain on both sides while having time for the main sights.
- Led by a historian, writer and former ambassador to relevant countries.
- 2009 marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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7–21 September 2009
15 days • £3,560
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