AITO Travel Company of the Year Martin Randall Travel announces the launch of its five Mediterranean cruises in 2009. Following the enthusiastic response to the inaugural cruises in 2008, we are repeating this year’s cruises, and introducing two new itineraries: The Matisse Cruise and Ancient Greek Philosophy.
The Matisse Cruise (15–24 April 2009; also 24 April–4 May 2010)
Beginning in Málaga, where Picasso was born, and ending in Nice, where Matisse died, the cruise visits around twenty-five collections of modern art as well as sites and scenes that inspired some of the greatest art of the twentieth century.
A team of biographers and art historians – including Hilary Spurling and Professor Christopher Green – accompanies this cruise. The number of passengers on board Le Diamant is restricted to 180, which reduces overcrowding at museums and fosters a more cohesive and intimate ambience on board. Prices start from £2,650 per person based on double occupancy and include onboard accommodation, scheduled flights from London to Málaga to meet the ship and return flight from Nice to London, all meals, wine, all excursions and visits, all coach transportation, lectures onboard, all tips and all taxes.
In Pursuit of Caravaggio (20 September–2 October 2009)
Following in Caravaggio’s footsteps, this unique and moving study of the artist’s life and work also surveys Magna Graecia, the territory of the Ancient Greeks in Italy. Vulcanology is a third theme as, travelling along the south west coast of Italy to Sicily and Malta, the cruise passes Europe’s three only active volcanoes.
Three private concerts of music spanning the baroque era are performed in historic buildings. Prices start at £2,990 per person based on double occupancy and include onboard accommodation, flights from and back to the UK, nearly all meals, wine, soda or bottled water with lunch and dinner, excursions and visits, coach transportation, lectures onboard, concert performances, all tips and all taxes.
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