Vienna

Vienna at the turn of the last century was Europe’s most important cultural and academic melting-pot, which combined a wealthy civil society with a period of tolerance for the Jewish community, and a flourishing scientific, artistic and musical sphere.

4 nights price from £2486 per person

Prague

Join astronomer and lecturer Martin Griffiths for a journey to the heart of early modern science on our tour of mediaeval Prague in the footsteps of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.

5 nights price from £2369 per person

Florence

Encounter the great scientific minds and discoveries of the Renaissance, which helped cement Italy's role at the forefront of scientific endeavour – from Brunelleschi and Botticelli to polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei.

5 nights price from £2729 per person

Copenhagen

Join author, journalist and scientist Manjit Kumar, for a fascinating tour to Copenhagen: an important centre of astronomy, birthplace of quantum physics and capital of Scandinavian design.

5 nights price from £3368 per person

Edinburgh

Discover Edinburgh’s and Glasgow’s most famous scientific thinkers, and how their work underpinned emerging ideas for understanding the world from the 16th century onwards.

4 nights price from £1396 per person

Geneva

Join readers of New Scientist magazine to discover the world's greatest physics laboratory, accompanied by particle physicist Darren Price.

5 nights price from £3579 per person

Paris

Discover the foundations of the modern science of medicine in Paris, where the ‘Paris School’ of hygiene and hospital teaching flourished. From mummified écorché figures to bone-lined catacombs, the early history of medicine is sometimes gruesome but always fascinating.

4 nights price from £2757 per person

Marrakech

With its deep pink terracotta walls, the scent of orange blossom and jacaranda-lined boulevards, and the sounds of snake charmers, muezzins and dancing water sellers in Djemaa El Fna Square, Marrakech has a unique, hedonistic quality.

5 nights price from £2794 per person

Join archaeologist Christofilis Maggidis for a unique insight into the ongoing dig at Mycenae, one of the most important historical and archaeological sites in Greece.

7 nights price from £4569 per person