Oct 14 2022 - Oct 21 2022

Starting from $11,999

Join Byzantine art scholar Helen C. Evans for an exclusive look at the shimmering Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna and Venice. Go behind the scenes at some of Ravenna's UNESCO-listed monuments and their mosaics, including the luminous Basilica of San Vitale, the spellbinding Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, and the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, with its splendid nave mosaics. In Venice, discover its many connections with the Byzantine capital of Constantinople, including an after-hours visit to St. Mark's Basilica and its wondrous Treasury, where you will see many items the Venetians plundered from Constantinople. View Venetian-Byzantine architecture on a gondola ride along Venice's canals, cruise to islands in the Venetian Lagoon to see Byzantine mosaics in magnificent churches, and take a special tour of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to see how Byzantine mosaics influenced contemporary art.