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Exotic destinations, like-minded people and the world’s top guides - escorted tours have never been so diverse. Here’s our pick Art History Abroad Tour leader, Nick Ross, believes art is ‘food for hungry souls’ and causes ‘transcipallary tremulation’, his phrase for when ‘the hairs on the back of your neck stand up’. He wants his trips to result in a life-long ability to enjoy art. He specialises in gap year and summer holiday tours to Italy. Who goes? People aged between 17 and 23 on the Italian tours, and their parents on the shorter tripDetails: From £6,250 for a five-week Italian tour and £2,950 for a summer holiday experience, including flights, 01379 871800, arthistoryabroad.com.

Fine Art Travel Groups go as far afield as Istanbul with Fine Art Travel. As a Duke’s son, art historian Lord Charles FitzRoy negotiates exceptional visits and you are likely to have the Prado in Madrid or the Uffizi in Florence all to yourselves. Lecturers have included Boris Johnson, Robin Lane Fox and Philip Mansel. Who goes? The well-heeled and the well-connected. Details: From £2,275 for four nights, excluding flights, 020 7437 8553, finearttravel.co.uk. A rainbow is pictured over St Isaacs Cathedral in St Petersburg Magical for music: St Petersburg is one of the stop-offs during Kirker's annual Festival at Sea BEST FOR MUSIC Kirker Look out for exclusive music programmes and three new itineraries, including a Baroque and bel canto opera festival in Venice and a Mozart Opera Festival in Warsaw. Kirker’s annual Festival at Sea is heading for the Baltic where clients can enjoy a midsummer cruise on board Fred Olsen’s Black Watch, with performances by soprano Joan Rodgers, baritone Duncan Rock, Ensemble 360 and Simon Rowland-Jones on viola. There will also be a recital by the Marlinsky Vocal Academy while the ship is in St Petersburg. Who goes? Couples and single music lovers. Details: From £1,398 including flights (no single supplements on some tours), 020 7593 2284, kirkerholidays.com. Titan Hitours Titan is offering seven extremely popular departures for the Deep South. During a ten-day ‘Southern Musical Medley’ guests will visit Elvis Presley’s Graceland and his birthplace in Tupelo and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the spiritual home of Country & Western and America’s longest running show, having broadcast every Saturday since 1925. Read more...http://www.dailymail.co.uk