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Art Pursuits Abroad has been organising cultural holidays and art history courses since 2003. Our Study Tours (cultural holidays) combine the art of travelling with the pleasure of looking at and learning about art and history in beautiful places. We are highly rated by our clients with 88% describing us as excellent (and 11% as good) as a tour operator which probably explains why 50% book again with us and many become regulars.

We hope that you enjoy looking at our website and find one or more of our Study Tours which interest you.

Istria - Pearls of the Adriatic

14 Sep 2019 - 21 Sep 2019
With: Dr Vedran Barbaric
Stretching along the Croatian coastline facing Venice across the Adriatic Sea, the ancient region of Istria retains the remnants of civilizations dating from prehistoric times.

7 nights from £2,760
Ref: 19ISTR
Bauhaus - Design for Living

17 Sep 2019 - 23 Sep 2019
With: Thomas Abbott
Architect Walter Gropius launched the radical Bauhaus arts movement in 1919 in Weimar, Germany after the devastation of the First World War. Bauhaus brought together fine arts and crafts to create buildings and interiors for the modern age.

6 nights from £2,195
Ref: BAUH19
Romanesque Rhineland - Cathedrals of Speyer, Worms and Mainz

23 Sep 2019 - 28 Sep 2019
With: Dr Ulrike Ziegler
Three fine Romanesque cathedrals – Worms, Speyer and Mainz – are an architectural focus of this tour through the Middle Rhine.

5 nights from £2,195
Ref: 19RHIN
The Golden Age of Dutch Painting - Treasures of Rijksmuseum and Holland’s historic cities

1 Oct 2019 - 6 Oct 2019
With: Dr Sophie Oosterwijk
The vivid paintings by 17th-century Dutch artists capture the confidence of an enterprising, ambitious, newly created republic.

5 nights from £2,155
Ref: 19HOLL
Trier & the Moselle - Roman ruins and mediaeval monuments

9 Oct 2019 - 13 Oct 2019
With: Dr Ulrike Ziegler
Trier’s ancient Roman imperial status is reflected in its impressive architecture; vast, intricate mosaic floors; large-scale sculpted monuments and delicate glassware.

4 nights from £1,650
Ref: 19TRIE
Budapest - Masterpiece of Art Nouveau

16 Oct 2019 - 20 Oct 2019
With: Dr Anne Anderson
Budapest, the Paris of the East or the Pearl of the Danube, enjoyed a renaissance at the close of the 19th century.

4 nights from £1,690
Ref: 19BUDA
Renaissance Milan - Cultural ambition and the House of Sforza

17 Oct 2019 - 21 Oct 2019
With: Dr Paula & Dr Geoffrey Nuttall
In the late 14th and 15th centuries Milan’s power and prestige as a princely state ensured it a distinguished role as an artistic centre.

4 nights from £1,880
Ref: 19REMI
Naples - Classical to contemporary around the Campi Flegrei

23 Oct 2019 - 30 Oct 2019
With: Nigel McGilchrist
This tour is an exploration of two thousand years of Neapolitan history.

7 nights from £2,595
Ref: 19NAPL
Sorolla's Valencia - Spanish Master of Light

29 Oct 2019 - 1 Nov 2019
With: Dr Anne Anderson
Spain’s third city, Valencia is awash with some of the most striking architecture in the country.

3 nights from £1,495
Ref: 19SORO
Colours of the Cote d’Azur

5 Nov 2019 - 11 Nov 2019
With: Dr Kathy McLauchlan
In 1887 the poet Stéphen Liégeard invented the term Côte d’Azur, referring to the stretch of coastline between Toulon and San Remo.

6 nights from £1,995
Ref: 19NICE
Joachim Strupp’s Venice - A personal journey through Venetian art

10 Nov 2019 - 16 Nov 2019
With: Thomas Abbott
We are pleased to announce the first of an annual series of tours in memory of Joachim Strupp, founder of Art Pursuits. These tours will be to places Joachim visited and will include several special visits to mark his skill and accomplishment in designing the very best cultural tours.

6 nights from £2,290
Ref: 19GENI
Renaissance Florence - Art and history in the time of the Medici

13 Nov 2019 - 18 Nov 2019
With: Dr Paula Nuttall
Florence has been hailed as ‘the cradle of the Renaissance’ – birthplace of a re-awakening of a Weltanschauung with man at the centre of the cosmos.

5 nights from £1,895
Ref: 19FLOR
Dresden - The Heart of Saxony

5 Dec 2019 - 10 Dec 2019
With: Thomas Abbott
Elegantly set in a curve of the River Elbe, the city of Dresden was one of the greatest political and cultural centres in the German Empire.

5 nights from £2,490
Ref: 19DRES
Augsburg - Cradle of the German Renaissance

12 Dec 2019 - 16 Dec 2019
With: Dr Ulrike Ziegler
It is not by surprise that the German Renaissance is dawning in Augsburg.

4 nights from £1,595
Ref: 19AUGS
Renaissance Rome - The Eternal City in the age of Michelangelo and Raphael

19 Feb 2020 - 24 Feb 2020
With: Dr Paula Nuttall
Michelangelo buon Arroti and Raffaello Sanzio were the first true superstars of western art. This Art Pursuits Abroad Study Tour will take you through the Eternal City in the footsteps of these two artistic giants and their contemporaries.

5 nights from £2,195
Ref: 20ROME
Mediaeval Splendour in Ravenna & Venice - Artistic Treasures of the Great Italian Cities

4 Mar 2020 - 9 Mar 2020
With: Dr Sally Dormer
In Ravenna we see the proof that even as the torch of the Roman Empire flared and guttered out, Europe was on the threshold of a period of incomparable artistic achievement. By the time Alaric sacked the Eternal City in 410, Ravenna had been the imperial capital for eight years.

5 nights from £2,095
Ref: 20RAVE
Jordan - Ancient cities, Biblical sites and desert castles

8 Mar 2020 - 15 Mar 2020
With: Sue Rollin
Our tour includes spectacular sites created by Romans, Christians and Muslims: flourishing cities of the Decapolis, Byzantine basilicas with resplendent mosaics, a fascinating Umayyad desert baths complex and a crusader stronghold towering high above the valley of the Dead Sea.

7 nights from £3,750
Ref: 20JORD
Bruges, Ghent and Brussels - Jan van Eyck and Netherlandish Painting

11 Mar 2020 - 15 Mar 2020
With: Dr Sophie Oosterwijk
Explore with us the history, art and architecture of the two great cities of Ghent and Bruges, the earliest showcases of commercial success, where Hubert and Jan van Eyck ‘invented’ a realistic style of painting.

4 nights from £1,550
Ref: 20FLAN
Porto & Art Noveau - Arte Nova in the Douro River Valley

31 Mar 2020 - 5 Apr 2020
With: Dr Anne Anderson
As is the case for so many of Europe’s greatest cities, Porto owes much to a mighty river. The Douro, which flows through the city, has ensured not just lucrative trading deals but fertile ground for the production of world-famous wines.

5 nights from £2,150
Ref: 20PORT
Villas of the Veneto - Architecture and lifestyle in the age of Palladio

21 Apr 2020 - 26 Apr 2020
With: Dr Marie-Louise Lillywhite
Andrea Palladio is one of the most influential architects of all time. To a large extent, his enduring fame was the result of his publication in 1570 of the Quattro Libri dell’Architettura which made his designs available to architects all over the world.

5 nights from £2,240
Ref: 20VILA
Heidelberg and the Romantic Neckar valley

22 Apr 2020 - 27 Apr 2020
With: Dr Ulrike Ziegler
This new Art Pursuits Abroad study tour invites you to explore one of Germany’s best loved cities and to uncover its Romantic past.

5 nights from £2,450
Ref: 20HEID
On The Golden Road - From Prague to Nuremburg

28 Apr 2020 - 3 May 2020
With: Thomas Abbott
This Art Pursuits Abroad study tour will give you the opportunity to study the life of Charles IV and the art of his time, while highlights of our Prague visit will be Charles’s architectural legacy.

5 nights from £1,995
Ref: 20TALE
Liguria and Le Cinque Terre

3 May 2020 - 9 May 2020
With: Anthony Majanlahti
Liguria has the shape of an arch placed between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea and it is known as “la Riviera dei Fiori”, for its variety of flowers and numerous natural parks.

6 nights from £2,965
Ref: 20LIGU
le Marche - Venetian painters abroad

14 May 2020 - 21 May 2020
With: Nigel McGilchrist
The tranquillity of the long maritime valleys of the Marche is distilled in the exquisite paintings of Lotto and Crivelli, found in its churches and palaces, and reflected in the understated music of Pergolesi and Rossini.

7 nights from £2,950
Ref: 20MARC
Swabia - Art and history between Augsburg and Stuttgart

17 May 2020 - 24 May 2020
With: Dr Ulrike Ziegler
Present-day ‘Schwaben’ encompasses parts of the German federal states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

7 nights from £2,370
Ref: 20SWAB
The Golden Road to Samarkand - Art and architecture of Central Asia

26 May 2020 - 5 Jun 2020
With: Sue Rollin
Tales of the Silk Road have enticed and beguiled the west for centuries, and images of the ‘mysterious east’, lingered on in the western imagination long after the overland trade route had disintegrated.

10 nights from £3,565
Ref: 20UZBE
Royal Krakow - Poland’s Cultural Capital

8 Jun 2020 - 12 Jun 2020
With: Thomas Abbott
With the exception of Prague, Krakow is the only metropolis in eastern Middle Europe to have survived wars and regime changes unscathed.

4 nights from £1,690
Ref: 20KRAK
Provence - School of the South

8 Jun 2020 - 13 Jun 2020
With: Dr Kathy McLauchlan
“When you’re born there, it’s hopeless, nothing else is good enough.” So beguiled was Cézanne by his home region of Provence, he is reputed to have spoken these words, and certainly he never tired of painting the area in his lifetime.

5 nights from £2,545
Ref: 20PROV
Georgian Arcadia - Great Country Houses and Landscape Parks of North Yorkshire 1700-1800

18 Jun 2020 - 21 Jun 2020
With: Barbara Peacock
Yorkshire is architecturally the richest of England’s counties and remains the most Georgian part of England with magnificent estates, country houses and landscape parks.

3 nights from £1,195
Ref: 20YORK
Hamburg - The Gateway to the World

20 Jun 2020 - 23 Jun 2020
With: Thomas Abbott
Fondly referred to by residents as ‘Gateway to the World’, Hamburg is Germany’s largest port and second largest city. It is defined by its proximity to the water, the Elbe river courses through its heart, dividing itself up into a network of smaller waterways and canals that meander through the urban landscape.

3 nights from £1,615
Ref: 20HAMB

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