This carefully designed wine tour offers an enticing introduction to Tuscany’s winemakers, combining private tastings at smaller producers with time to enjoy the region’s historic hill towns, beautiful landscapes and outstanding cuisine.

4 nights price from £3497 per person

Departs: 19 Apr 2027

One of the world’s oldest university cities, Padua is an elegant city which has nurtured students from Galileo and Copernicus to the present day.

5 nights price from £2569 per person

Departs: 14 Jun 2027, 20 Sep 2027

Italy not only has many of the greatest 16th and 17th century gardens in Europe, it also has some which have been extensively restored and indeed created in the 20th century. We visit two of these at Ninfa and La Landriana.

5 nights price from £2625 per person

Departs: 10 May 2027, 11 Oct 2027

One has to go far to find a more perfect and peaceful landscape than the shores of Lake Como, where this tour is based. Tranquil, serene and timeless, the mountains that fringe the crystal waters provide a dramatic backdrop, as do the countless pristine villas that stretch up the hillsides from the lake shores.

5 nights price from £3765 per person

Departs: 25 Apr 2027

La Scala, Milan is, for most opera lovers, the world’s most revered and important opera house. The theatre opened in 1778 with a performance of an opera by Salieri and since then, many of the greatest Italian operas have received their first performance on its hallowed stage.

4 nights price from £2530 per person

Departs: 18 Feb 2027, 26 Oct 2027

This new itinerary in the company of historian and archaeologist Dr Ellie Jones, takes you to the heart of the world’s most powerful and inspiring ancient civilisation.

4 nights price from £2195 per person

Departs: 22 Feb 2027, 13 Dec 2027

The largest island in the Mediterranean, Sicily’s strategic importance has given it a violent, eventful and colourful history. Doric temples, Roman mosaics, elegant and powerful Norman architecture and a wealth of Baroque and Renaissance palaces and churches are a reminder of its great past.

5 nights price from £3479 per person

Departs: 10 Sep 2027

Travel to the beautiful and verdant island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples with a group of distinguished musicians, who play private concerts in the music room at La Mortella, former home of Sir William Walton and his wife Susana.

7 nights price from £3796 per person

Departs: 8 Oct 2027

La Fenice in Venice is one of the world’s most historic opera houses. Inaugurated in 1792 the opera house has, like its namesake the phoenix, been destroyed by fire and rebuilt, both in 1836 and 1996.

4 nights price from £2789 per person

Departs: 1 Feb 2027, 26 Sep 2027

Our new Venice tour is designed to appeal to those who are familiar with the most celebrated landmarks of La Serenissima but would like to venture further beneath the surface of the city in the company of a world-class expert.

6 nights price from £3587 per person

Departs: 15 Nov 2027