Thomas Martlet

Thomas Martlet Ltd - Our Tours
All Tours Our Tours are listed in the table below. Full details of the itinerary, accommodation, and travel arrangements are available by clicking on the photograph to the LEFT of the tour description. Tours which do not show a date are still in preparation and you can see the proposed itinerary by clicking on the photograph but prices and precise details of accommodation etc. will not be shown. We urge you to register your interest for these tours so that we can advise you as soon as new dates become available. We add to our tours from time to time so do sign up to our newsletter to be kept up to date with when & where we are going.

Tours in Chronological Order
	Pilgrim Road to Santiago 9 days 31 March-08 April 2012 We trace the Spanish section of the Pilgrim route to Santiago from Burgos to the shrine of St James	Spring Opera in Budapest 5 days 08 - 12 April 2012 Our tour explores the art, architecture and music of this vibrant city where east meets west on the banks of the Danube.
	Roman France 8 days 21 - 28 April 2012 Aquaducts, Amphitheatres, temples and churches. The best of Roman & Romanesque architecture in Southern France	Andalucia 8 days 02 - 09 May 2012 Our tour concentrates on the exotic highlights of the Islamic adventure in Spain.
	Spring Opera in Prague 5 days 13 - 17 May 2012 Capital of Bohemia and one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Prague was the nursery of our musical tradition.	Semper Opera - Dresden 6 days 20 - 25 May 2012 Verdi & Donizetti in this fine city, known to history as the Florence of the North.
	Semper Opera - Dresden 5 days 27 - 31 May 2012 Mozart and Kurt Weill in a city resurrected from the devastation of the Second World War and the attrition of 50 years of communism.	Art & Artists of the Riviera 8 days 02 - 09 June 2012 Renoir, Leger. Picasso, Matisse and others : our tour explores the artists who made the French Riviera the epicentre of 20th century art.
	Gothic France 8 days 10 - 17 June 2012 The whole history of Gothic architecture expressed in the stone and glass of the most spectacular group of medieval buildings in Europe.	Wagner's Ring in Munich 8 days 02 - 09 July 2012 Munich owes its Ruritanian charm to the caprice of the 19th century kings of Bavaria, Ludwig I, Maximilian and the mad medieval Ludwig II. Our tour includes a full performance of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen.
	Munich 8 days 02 - 09 July 2012 Munich owes its Ruritanian charm to the caprice of the 19th century kings of Bavaria, Ludwig I, Maximilian and the mad medieval Ludwig II.	Tuscany and Umbria 8 days 02 - 09 September 2012 In the heartland of Etruscan antiquity, nursery of the arts of Ancient Rome, we explore the emergence of Renaissance aspirations from medieval realities, especially in the work of Giotto, Signorelli and Piero della Francesca.
	Brief Encounter - Istanbul 5 days 23 - 27 September 2012 Constantinople, Byzantium, Micklegarth of medieval imagination: our tour explores the prodigies of Imperial, Christian and Ottoman history on the shores of the Bosphorous.	Brief Encounter - Madrid 5 days 07 - 11 October 2012 Madrid and the Escorial were the head and the heart of Philip the Second’s Spain.
	Syria, Jordan, Lebanon 15 days A fifteen day journey through the heartland of ancient empires twice as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.	Historic Sicily 8 days We explore the extraordinary artistic legacy of the Greek and Norman Empires.
	Eternal Rome 8 days We spend a full week exploring the principal monuments of Rome, Republican, Imperial, Paleo- christian and Baroque.	Brief Encounter - Florence 5 days Our tour provides a full three-day survey of the epicentre of the Italian Renaissance, visiting the principal museums, galleries and monuments.