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Andante Travels
Tours like The Peloponnese - From Homer to Hadrian & beyond (2008)
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Bare Bones Athens (2008)
Greece
The ancient city centre including the Acropolis, the National museum, full of gold, with optional days out to the famous sanctuaries at Delphi and Sounion (Half-term)
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Crete - Minoan Civilisation (2008)
Greece
The excavations at Knossos in the early 20th century first brought this remarkable civilisation into focus, and it was named by the excavator Sir Arthur Evans after the legend of King Minos. Ancestors of the Myceneans and then the Classical Greeks, the Minoans may be seen as the key to understanding western culture.
25/05/08 to 02/06/08
Prices
£1680 per person (sharing)
Greece's Northern Glories - Epirus and Macedonia (2008)
Greece
Glorious northern Greece - lakes and mountains, monasteries, painted tombs and palaces in Epirus and Macedonia.
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Latium - The Roman Countryside (2008)
Italy
Ancient Roman politicians headed for the glorious peace of their country estates in the bucolic idyll which was Latium. We explore rural villages, small towns and the Imperial palaces of Hadrian at Tivoli and Tiberius at Sperlonga. The gardens of Ninfa and Tivoli should be stunning in May.
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Bare Bones Troy (2008)
Turkey
Ephesus, Pergamum, Miletus and other great classical cities, and the long-lived settlement which has been identifed as Troy - is it or isn’t it?