Wherever you book, the approach stays the same: one week of expert input and guided excursions in English, in a group of 5 to 20 participants. At every destination, you explore the same themes, from landscape and building methods to city structures, heritage protection and sustainability.
What changes are the examples you study. Each destination tells its own story of how people, nature and history meet, and each lets you compare what you learn with what you know from home. Simply choose the place whose story you'd most like to hear.
Malta architecture spans more than 5,600 years. A cultural holiday in Malta takes you from the Ġgantija temples on Gozo, among the oldest freestanding buildings in the world, to the fortified capital of Valletta, the medieval city of Mdina and the Three Cities around the Grand Harbour. The dramatic Dingli Cliffs show how the island's landscape has shaped where and how people built.
A cultural holiday in Spain brings you to Málaga, where Roman, Moorish, Christian and modern layers sit side by side in one old town. You explore the Alcazaba and the cathedral, follow the coastline to the Guadalhorce estuary and discuss how a historic port city balances heritage, tourism and the effects of a changing climate.
A cultural holiday in Morocco takes you to Rabat, whose old and new towns have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012. Here, the medina, the Kasbah and the city built during the protectorate era meet the Atlantic coast and the mouth of the Bou Regreg river, showing how Europe and Africa have shaped one city together.
Whichever destination you choose, you'll return with a deeper understanding of how places grow, and a new way of looking at them.
