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Classical Excursions 2009 schedule features an assortment of international and domestic tours, sponsored by The Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America.
Classical Antebellum Natchez
April 15-19, 2009
Eighteenth-Century Sweden
The Golden Age of Gustavian Style
May 15-26, 2009
Cultural and Historical Treasures of the Berkshires
Custom Tours & Local Step on Guide Service in the Berkshires
Other upcoming tours include:
Berlin and Potsdam: From Rococo to Karl Friedrich Schinkel, September 10-16, 2009
Two adjoining centers of great classical architecture, the tour covers the glorious rococo architecture and interiors sponsored by Frederick the Great (a fabulous designer himself) among others and continues through to Schinkel, whose neo-classical work influenced German architecture into the 20th century.
Private Hudson River Valley, September 30-October 4
Rich in four centuries of domestic architecture sited in one of America’s most majestic landscapes during fall foliage, the tour focuses mainly on some of the area’s finest houses in private hands today, including new classical work.
A Grand Tour of Sicily: Palermo to Taormina, September 30 - October 9, 2009
Beginning in the capital of Palermo, the group will travel to the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento, the ruins of Segesta, historic Siracusa, daytrips to Ragussa Ibla and Noto and ending at Taormina. Centuries of ancient classical, medieval, baroque and neo-classical architecture, breathtaking views, dinner parties in private palazzi, reminds us of Goethe’s description, “…for Sicily is the clue to everything” Italian.
Private Washington, D.C., December 2-6, 2009
The nation’s capital is a classically designed city, where reside some of our best public and private buildings. The tour will be a discovery of homes and embassies, little known to most of us and designed in the late 19th century and through the 20th century.
Private Buenos Aires: Paris on the Rio de la Plata, May 2010
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