"Sicily" with Dr. Patrick Hunt
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May 23-31 2008
Stanford Alumni Trip |
Embark the intimate, 30-passenger Callisto with classics professor Patrick Hunt for a seven-night circumnavigation of the island, awash in the splendor of spring. Sitting at the intersection of Europe and Africa, the island of Sicily has been witness, for over 3,000 years, to wave after wave of new cultures and new ideas, as well as countless historical events and occupations. Explore ruins that ... Read More
Previous Tours
"Paris: at the Louvre" with Dr. Patrick Hunt (a past tour)
Spring 2008 (late March)
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"This exciting new Paris study trip will spend five days at the Louvre
(Western Art Paintings, and wonderful archaeological collections from
Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman and other departments), one
day at the Musee d'Orsay (Impressionist and Expressionist Art) and one
half day at the Cluny Museum (National Museum of the Middle Ages).
Accommodations and airfare not included.
Please contact Dr. Patrick
Hunt for details."
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"London: At The British Museum" (a past tour)
March 26-March 31, 2007 with Dr. Patrick Hunt
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This private and exclusive trip - conducted annually since 1993 - is reserved for a small group of no more than 10-12 persons who love archaeology and ancient art and are willing to spend a week in museums in London and Oxford. The primary venue is the magnificent British Museum in London, along with the breathtaking National Gallery in London as well as the elegant gem of the Ashmolean Museum |
| in Oxford and an alternating cycle of other venues including the unique Flinders Petrie Egyptian Museum and the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, University of London. Each session with Patrick Hunt in mornings or afternoons covers objects, artifacts and monuments with an added unique daily feature with museum curatorial staff in expert private sessions. Each group becomes part of the British Museum Friends via individual memberships. |
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Participants are responsible for hotel accommodations and airfare. Space is always limited.
Tentative Itinerary
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3/26 |
MONDAY, British Museum, 10:00 am Private Session, Parthenon Frieze / Elgin Marbles. 1 pm, Greek Vases and Sculpture, Dr. Patrick Hunt, 3:30 pm, Private Session, Mesopotamia. |
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3/27 |
TUESDAY, British Museum, 10:00 am, Roman and Etruscan Galleries, Dr Patrick Hunt, lunch break, Flinders Petrie Museum, University of London, Institute of Archaeology: (Egypt) 2:00 pm Private Session. |
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3/28 |
WEDNESDAY, British Museum: 10:00 am, Celtic Gallery, Dr. Patrick Hunt, 10:30 Roman Britain, Private Session. 1:00 pm British Museum, Asian Gallery, Dr. Patrick Hunt |
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3/29 |
THURSDAY, Oxford University: (by train from London) 10:00 am walking tour including the Covered Market, University College, Christ Church College, Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian Library and 1 pm private session, Ashmolean Museum. Pub Lunch 2:15, at the Eagle and Child, Inklings Pub of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, etc. Evening train back to London. |
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3/30 |
FRIDAY, British Museum. 10 am, Ur, Assyria and Persia, Dr. Patrick Hunt, lunch break, afternoon session, Egyptian Galleries (including Rosetta Stone), Dr Patrick Hunt. |
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3/31 |
SATURDAY, 10 am British Museum, morning, Mexico Gallery, Dr. Patrick Hunt, National Gallery: 1 pm Tour of Renaissance and Baroque Paintings with Dr. Patrick Hunt. Closing Dinner: 6pm, Farewell Gala Banquet. |
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Note: Each museum day usually begins at 10:00 am and finishes around 5:00 pm with optional concerts, theater, and other participant-arranged events in the evenings.
"Sicily, Crossroads of Culture, Travel with Scholars" (a past tour)
14 Days June 2007
With Dr. Patrick Hunt, Archaeologist and Art Historian
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Verdant Sicily amidst blue seas is not only regarded as the Blessed Isle, the ancient Island of Persephone and a fertile place sacred in Homeric epic and myth, but is also unique in having been occupied over the millennia by Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, Byzantines, Moslems, Normans, and many others, all of whom left their stamp on this beautiful island. Dazzling Greek temples and theaters, Roman mosaics, Byzantine basilicas, Norman castles |
and Baroque extravagance are only a few highlights we visit and study in their sites along with art museums with rare Caravaggio and Antonella da Messina paintings, among many others. After Sicily we travel to Naples to the famous sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Naples National Museum of Archaeology as well as Capodimonte Palace and other venues, then finish in Rome. We visit the cities of Palermo (Palazzo Normanni, Monreale Cathedral and cloister, Palermo Cathedral, Archaeology Museum) Segesta (Greek temple and theater), Selinunte (Greek temples), Agrigento (Greek temples and museum), Piazza Armerina (Villa Casale Roman mosaics), Taormina (medieval city and Greco-Roman theater), Siracusa (Archaeological Park, Greek Theater, Ortygia, Duomo, Palazzo Bellomo, Arethusa Fountain), Messina (Art Museum), Reggio Calabria (civic museum with Riace bronzes), Naples (Archaeological Museum, Capodimonte Palace, Santa Chiara, Duomo, Certosa di San Martino), Pompeii (site) and Rome. Luxury accommodations and dining are superb in Palermo, Agrigento, Taormina, Naples and Rome. Space is limited.
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Heidi Binder
Program Manager
International Programs
UC Berkeley Extension
Tel: 1.510.643.1468
Fax: 1.510.643.1550
email: hab@unex.berkeley.edu
"Medieval Burgundy: Travel with Scholars" (a past tour)
10 days, September 6-15, 2006
With Dr. Patrick Hunt, Archaeologist and Art Historian
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This is a fabulous specialized study trip for sophisticated travelers who love France and savor the Romanesque period of Medieval history. In 10 days we visit 10 Romanesque or Gothic basilicas and cathedrals, many with cloisters, 10 castles, 10 museums, and 10 world class circa 12th c. viticulture appellations. The Romanesque sites |
include Cluny, Vezelay, Autun, Beaune, Fontenay Abbey, Tournus as some of the cathedral or basilica churches. Rochepot, Gevrey-Chambertin, Aloxe-Corton, Clos-Vougeot, Neufchateau, Beaune, Dijon, are some of the castles or chateaux. Beaune's Hotel Dieu, Dijon's Musee du Beaux-Arts, Cluny, Autun's Musee Regionale are some of the museums we visit. We have also arranged superb gourmandaise dinners in the Michelin *** Lameloise in Chagny and other famous restaurants such as Le Chef Coq at Hotel Gentilhommiere in Nuits-St-Georges, all gourmandaise establishments. From years of research and travel there, Patrick Hunt knows Burgundy very well and has many friends there who either own or manage restaurants, hotels or are vignerons/owners of world-class Grand Cru vineyards in Vosne-Romanee, Gevrey-Chambertin, Aloxe-Corton, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Morey-St-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, Nuits-St-Georges, etc. Luxury accommodations are in superb Burgundian manor houses or castles restored to highest standards. Space is limited. This is at least the 10th time Dr. Hunt has conducted this trip.
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For booking info please contact:
Heidi Binder
Program Manager
International Programs
UC Berkeley Extension
Tel: 1.510.643.1468
Fax: 1.510.643.1550
email: hab@unex.berkeley.edu
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