National Trust for Historic Preservation - Grand Tour
Chapter VI - BYZANTINE SPLENDOR: Venice & Constantinople - Including Ravenna & Padua
With Guest Lecturer Peter Lauritzen.
Tour Costs: $6,900.00 per person double occupancy; $2,325.00 single supplement
- Illuminated Basilica of San Marco, specially opened for the National Trust, to view the magnificent Byzantine artifacts
- Private visit of the secret rooms of the Venetian Republic at Doges Palace
- Visits to private palaces and villas—including a reception at the 17th-century Venitian Palazzo Treves de’Bonfili with the owner, in the spectacular state apartments of Palazzo Albrizzi, and lunch with Contessa Marina Emo Capodilista at her home in Padua - Villa Rivella
- Lunch aboard a private yacht cruising on the Bosphorus viewing Ottoman palaces and waterside mansions
- Visits to Palaces and mosques, as well as the Grand Covered Bazaar and the Egyptian Spice Bazaar
- Visit the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, center of Greek Orthodox Christianity
- Meals at charming Turkish restaurants – both traditional and nouvelle – with a farewell dinner at Istanbul’s opulent Ciragan Palace
- Accommodations at the 18th-century Europe & Regina, overlooking Venice’s Grand Canal, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in the heart of Istanbul’s old city
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