Woburn Abbey, including guided tour – May 2018

The group will depart APMH at 08:00. Tea/coffee and biscuits will be served on arrival. There will be a guided tour of the Abbey at 11:00 which will last about one and a quarter hours.

Lunch of sandwiches, salad & crisps will be at 12:45 followed by tea/coffee. There will be time to explore the house, the family home of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at leisure or visit the gardens. Departure will be at about 15:45.

Woburn Abbey is celebrated for housing one of the most important private art collections in the world. Artworks on public view include the work of famous artists such as: Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Lely, Rembrandt, Tintoretto and Van Dyck.

Within the house itself, a number of 18th-century pictures still hang largely in situ. The State Dressing Room is hung with a collection of Dutch and Flemish old masters, such as Teniers, Cuyp and Steen. The Dining Room was remodeled by the architect Henry Holland and has for centuries displayed Woburn Abbey’s famous collection of twenty-four Venetian views by Canaletto.

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