Encounter the great scientific minds and discoveries of the Renaissance, which helped cement Italy's role at the forefront of scientific endeavour - from Brunelleschi and Botticelli to polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei.

Explore Italy's most beautiful cities of Florence, Pisa and Bologna and look at the wondrous collections, buildings and churches that demonstrate the burgeoning knowledge of the period. You will be based in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance and seat of the House of Medici whose patronage was pivotal to academic and artistic progress. Accompanied by art historian and Florentine resident Jeremy Boudreau, and the writer and journalist Juliet Rix, the tour will focus on the astronomical, anatomical, medical and mathematical discoveries, as well as the achievements of Renaissance artists and architects.