Two new World War I centenary tours

World War I centenary tours

Battlefields tours specialists ACE Cultural Tours have launched two new World War I centenary tours for next year.

The trips, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of fighting in the First World War, accompany a week of special events.

A Journey Through The Great War, June 02–07, 2014, £985

A Journey Through the Great War takes in the battlefields and memorials of Flanders and the Somme with soldier-turned-academic John Greenacre

Vienna 1914, October 06–13, 2014, £1450

Vienna 1914 looks at the art and the architecture of the then Austro-Hungarian capital, where some of the early days of the war were shaped.

World War One Centenary Week at Stapleford Granary, November 2014

November 2014 will see a special week of music, art, and literature events run by ACE’s parent charity, the ACE Foundation, at the Stapleford Granary. The Goldfield Ensemble will give a concert of chamber music composed during the Great War.

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