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Art Societies / Gallery "Friends"

These are specialist programs exploring the depth and breadth of Italian Masters, offering a sensitive and sympathetic approach, led by Australian artist, Victor Greenaway. Through a professional artist's practiced eye you will discover amazing brushstrokes and even more amazing insights.
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Art Tours 2010

Join well-known International/Australian artist, Victor Greenaway (www.victorgreenaway.com) in a great, group program of discovery sharing a common interest in drawing, ceramics, art history, great food & wine, relaxed and informed travelling, with a special interest in Italian arts & culture.
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Accommodation: Orvieto ++

Every accommodation listing comes with our own seal of approval, according to our exacting standards, with an absolute guarantee that we know the accommodation (and the owner) through personal inspection and/or experience, from monasteries to luxury accommodation and all in between.
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Umbria: mystical, magical, saintly

The land of Umbria is a wonderful, picturesque, gentle landscape, for the most part undiscovered by large-scale tourism. It is an ancient land, settled in prehistoric times by the Umbri, later by the Etruscans and then the Romans. It is the birth place of Italy's most revered saint, St Francis of Assisi.
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Ideas to get you Started

Taking time out is special, especially when you want to make the most of your time and that is where we come in. From a wide variety of activities formulated to your needs we can provide a customised itinerary that may include destinations across the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula.
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Our Home Base of Orvieto

As the jewel sitting on the southwest corner of Umbria Orvieto presents one of the most dramatic settings in Europe. This spectacular medieval town, built on Etruscan ruins, rises some 1500 feet from the floor of the Paglia River valley, atop the almost vertical faces of the tufa cliff
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Master Classes

With INTERNATIONAL ARTIST Victor Greenaway in ceramics - painting - drawing. Master Classes are designed for small groups or individuals. We also offer very special Master Classes in maiolica decorating with Italian MASTER Marino Moretti
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Day Tours

Day programs run all year, for individuals and small groups. Each day tour may be combined into several days to make up a more extended "program package" with great variety and great content. Prices quoted are per person and will include the complete day package, transport and a personal guide.
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Cooking with Passion!
choose either home-based cooking or professional cuisine following the genuine, heart-felt traditions of the land.

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Day Tours
tours operate all year and offer many great choices to enhance your journey or may be combined into a full program-package

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Italian Language
choose from full immersion or short survival classes combining theory interspersed with real practice in many great locations

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Artlines Central Italy - PAINTING
sketching/drawing/gathering inspiration in some amazing locations, followed by studio painting sessions in oil & acrylics  
SEP 2010 - ROOM FOR 2 MORE - BOOK NOW!

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Ceramica Italia: form, line & colour
Etruschi / Romano / Medioevo / Rinascimento
Rome, Central Italy (Orvieto) & Florence - with hands-on classes
SEP/OCT 2010 - BOOKINGS CLOSED - ASK ABOUT 2011!

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Join one of our small group tours OR,
let us create a unique program for you

Discovering Italy is based in Umbria, that wonderful, magical "green heart" of Italy, land of the saints, with its Etruscan treasures, Medieval hill-top towns, Renaissance piazzas and enduringly warm and generous people.The Watchers, ORVIETO by Victor Greenaway

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With offices in Australia and Italy we offer:

  • Fully escorted individual or group travel

  • Customised programs with options to build an itinerary from single-day modules

  • Special focus, small groups: "hands-on" classes - sketching, ceramics and cooking

  • Master classes: painting, drawing, ceramics, maiolica decorating

  • Better choices for Senior Travellers, Art Societies & Friends of the Gallery

  • A qualified Education Consultant for all your School travel to Italy

  • Great accommodation options across all levels and all types
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