FEATURE/Move Over Sentimental Journeys - It's the Age of Enlightenment; IST Cultural Tours & The History Channel Offer Educational Trips.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--March 30, 1999--For travelers longing for more than a bus-trip, snapshot tour through the world's most intriguing destinations, The History Channel and IST Cultural Tours are offering a series of educational excursions - called "Enlightened Journeys." From an in-depth study of the French homeland and perspective of Claude Monet to a last-chance cruise of China's Yangtze River Yangtze River Chinese Chang Jiang or Ch'ang Chiang River, China. Rising in the Tanggula Mountains in west-central China, it flows southeast before turning northeast and then generally east across south-central and east-central China to the East China before the flooding of the Three Gorges The Three Gorges (Simplified Chinese: 三峡; Traditional Chinese: 三峽; Pinyin: Sānxiá [ , these journeys partner inquisitive travelers with the premier experts on the subjects to be observed in each destination. Over the next year, travelers can join the following small-group programs: -- France: a ten-day journey into 19th century France with tours of Fontainebleau Castle, the Auberge Ganne Museum, the home of Jean Francois Millet millet, common name for several species of grasses cultivated mainly for cereals in the Eastern Hemisphere and for forage and hay in North America. The principal varieties are the foxtail, pearl, and barnyard millets and the proso millet, called also broomcorn millet , the beaches of Normandy, the Rouen Cathedral and Fine Arts Museum, the countryside in Giverny, Claude Monet's home, and the most important sites in Paris; $6,405. -- Italy: retrace the evolution of Michelangelo's talent from the workshops of Florentine artisans to the noble palaces of Rome over 13 days, including visits to the frescoes at San Gimignano, the Church of San Lorenzo, the Laurentian Library foyer, the Medici Medici, Italian family Medici (mĕ`dĭchē, Ital. mā`dēchē), Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737. Chapel, Piazza del Duomo Piazza del Duomo ("cathedral square") is a name often given in Italy to the piazza in front of a cathedral. Some of the better known include:
Villa San Michele The Villa San Michele was built around the turn of the 20th century, by the Swedish physician, Axel Munthe, on the ruins of the Roman Emperor, Tiberius' villa, on the Island of Capri, Italy. , Piazzale Michelangelo and all his key works in Rome; $7,325. -- Central Europe: follow in the footsteps of Europe's great composers during a 13-day musical sojourn through Prague, Budapest and Vienna, including visits to Tour Estates Theater, the Mozart Museum, the Bedrich Smetana Museum, the Budapest Academy of Music, Bartok Memorial House, Buda Castle, St. Stephan's Cathedral, Vienna's Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. and Beethoven's Heilgenstadt House; $6,615. -- China: an illuminating 17-day trek through Beijing, Zhengzhou, Dengfeng, Luoyang, Xian, Chongquing, Wuhan and Shanghai, including a spectacular Yangtze River cruise and visits to ancient monasteries, temples, gardens and ruins; $5,145. -- Greece: a nine-day odyssey beginning in Thessaloniki, crossing over Mt. Olympus to Dion, Meteora, Delphi, Galaxidi, Athens and Hydra; accompanied by historians and archeologists; $4,180. Turkey: a rare opportunity to study the Byzantine and Ottoman legacies over nine days, starting in Istanbul, then on to Cappadocia, Ankara, Izmir, Kusadasi and Ephesus; $4,325. -- Israel: 11 days in the Holy Land studying the millennium phenomenon with stays in Jerusalem, Tiberias and Tel Aviv; $5,095. -- Egypt: two weeks with an Egyptologist studying the treasures of the Nile, with activities in Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo and Aswan; $5,275. Rates are per person, double occupancy, and include round-trip airfare from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , deluxe hotel accommodations, transfers, commuter flights within the region, and many meals. For available dates and to reserve an Enlightened Journey, contact API Travel Consultants, an organization made up of the top 224 independent luxury travel agencies in North and Latin America. To find the API Travel Consultant nearest you, please call 800/401-4API or visit www.apitravel.com on the Internet. |
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