Bologna is a city built on knowledge, appetite, and continuity. Home to the oldest university in the Western world, it is where medieval scholarship, Renaissance politics, and everyday Italian life ...

On the afternoon of July 14, 1789, a rebelling rabble laid siege to France's most hated fortress: the Bastille. Freeing the few remaining political prisoners, the mob began, stone by stone, ...

In this city once gripped by Nazi occupation, wartime secrets are waiting to be revealed. You’ve read all the novels, watched all the documentaries, but here you’ll come to understand what no single ...

Flying buttresses, sculpted portals, and shifting light await in the newly renovated Notre Dame. Together with your expert, you’ll learn how to read this monumental cathedral through its materials, ...

Mexico City is one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited capitals, built atop the former Aztec city of Tenochtitlán and shaped by centuries of colonial rule, independence, and modern expansion.

Located along the Vistula River in east-central Poland, Warsaw is a city shaped by resilience, reinvention, and cultural depth. Nearly destroyed during World War II, it was meticulously rebuilt, ...

3 hours with a Ph.D. or MA-level guide Tickets to the Acropolis Archaeological Site and the Acropolis Museum While your visit includes advance reservations to the museums, you will need to pass ...

In Warsaw, history has been written, erased and rewritten in brick and stone. Explore the Old Town, the Royal Route, and Parade Square with a historian who reveals how Poland’s contested past has ...

A visit to local markets is one of the many things you can look forward to on a Context tour in Morocco. Morocco isn’t new to the seasoned traveler’s radar, but as the land where desert winds and riad ...

Sun-drenched Cannes, known more for its beaches than silver screens, became an unlikely birthplace for a film powerhouse in 1939. Born as a counterpunch to a fascist-tainted Italian festival, Cannes ...

On this Jewish Vienna walking tour, we'll peel back the layers of history that lie thick over the city's first district, the Inner City, and second district, Leopoldstadt. We’ll walk a constellation ...

Only an hour by train from London, Oxford is famed as the seat of the oldest university in the English-speaking world and an architectural treasure house. Dating from Anglo-Saxon times, it has been a ...