Boutique small group tours with a unique program, immersive cultural adventures, and personal signature guiding.

Our Invitation

Through Elegance and Beauty, we want to allow your emotions and creativity to develop. The tours aim at inspiring you for a deeper understanding of the visited places, cultures, and art, and offer good quality and meaningful content that will enrich your experience on the tour, as well as, maybe also your life at home.

We prepare, organize, and lead our own signature tours, and don't sell other agencies' programs.

No early mornings exhausting programs, but an easy pace travel, good quality content, inspiration, creativity and beauty.

HOW WE TRAVEL

SMALL GROUPS

5-15 guests (we also organize and lead private group tours)

LANGUAGE

all tours and activities are held in English

BOUTIQUE FEEL AND ELEGANCE

special and elegant places, beautiful hotels, excellent cuisine, charming cafés, and luxury transportation.

RELIABLE ORGANISING

comes from more than 17 years of experience in organizing and
leading trips for different groups,
and in different countries of the world.

BIG LOVE

we prepare, organize, and lead our tours with much love for the guests we lead, the experiences we prepare, the places we visit, and the people with whom we work.

OUR OFFER IS LAND ONLY

and does not include a flight arrangements. We believe you have different needs when traveling with planes, so we don't arrange the flights, but we can advise on arrival and departure airports and help with ideas about the most suitable flights.

TOUR DIRECTOR

Alja is a professional tour guide and the owner of ECT. In certain countries, she is joined by local guides. In order to fully understand the essence of our travel, please keep reading and visit our Blog.

What makes Elegant Cultural Tours unique

AUTHENTIC PROGRAMS

• Culture topics - European or Europe-influenced high culture and art
• Spending time in (cultural) capitals
• Visiting only relevant and beautiful places
• Traveling at an easy pace with a good quality program

IMMERSIVE CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

- Creative hands-on workshops in authentic places (Why we add them? Read more about creative workshops here)
- Full-hearted expert talks in elegant settings
- Attending best cultural events

WORKSHOP TOURS that are enfolding around your passion such as photography, or dance. We write more about it here.

Read more in our Blog Our Specialities

TOURS

On our tours, you stay in vibrant, elegant, and culturally inspiring (capital) cities . . . and to get away from it all, on the longer tours, for a day or so, you retreat to a remote, quiet place where you can relax, take time to walk in the park, or simply enjoy resting.

It is possible to variate the programs, so you will also find tips on EXTENSIONS OR VARIATIONS in the description of each tour.

Marrakech

LADIES-ONLY TOUR BY ALJA

The Medina of Marrakech and its historic sites • Gardens and palaces • Visit to a women's NGO cooperative • Jemaa el-Fnaa main square and the largest Moroccan souk (markets) • Program designed for the female soul • Extension: Anima Garden and Ourika Valley • Kasbah Tamadot • Agafay stone desert • Essaouira town

The owner, Alja Mravljak will be your Tour Leader

Marrakech Ladies-only tour

Vienna to Venice

Charming grand tour

Vienna (Austria), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Venice (Italy). Viennese elegance, Ljubljana's homey feel, and venetian opulence... The charming feel of the old europe

Your Tour Director is Alja Mravljak, the owner of Elegant Cultural Tours LtD
Design and Luxury hotels with the feel of the past
An optional Grand evening Gala in The Vienna Philharmonic (or the Opera)
or La Fenice Opera in Venice
An elegant private Viennese waltz lesson with a live concert
Many charming secrets of the noble families, living in palaces
on the Grand Canal in Venice, and still more...

Vienna to Venice grand tour

Cuba

Vintage grand tour

Havana, Trinidad, and ViÑales. Eclectic, Vintage, Old Style heaven

Your Tour Director is Alja Mravljak, the owner of Elegant Cultural Tours LtD
Boutique authentic accommodations in colonial style private houses
or beautiful 4- or 5- star hotels
An elegant ride in old American convertible cars
A magnificent gala in Gran Teatro de la Habana
Immersive expert talks on Cuban music, life, and Cuban art and culture
A dinner in a small museum and still more...

Cuba grand tour

Morocco

ELEGANT GRAND TOUR

CASABLANCA, RABAT, FES, MARRAKECH, AND THE SAHARA DESERT DUNES. AN EXOTIC ORIENTAL WORLD WITH OPULENCE OF BEAUTY, COLOURS, AND TRADITIONS

Alja Mravljak, the owner of Elegant Cultural Tours is the Tour Director
Accommodations in Riads and Luxury hotels
Yves Saint Laurent experience and Majorelle garden
A professional photo shooting in magical Sahara dunes
(with Moroccan costumes and camels)
A Moroccan afternoon »Ladies time together«
and »Gentlemen's time out« and still more...

Morocco Grand Tour

Topics we cover

On our tours, you can enjoy in many different topics. We love crossing the lines between disciplines and combine the most interesting of each of them. Some of the topics we cover in-depth, and some we take in as we go along.

The topics that you can enjoy in our tours:

ART AND HISTORY

(pictorial) arts, magnificent
architecture, royal histories,
photography via a photoshooting,
or attending a workshop on
photography

MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

prime art collections, interesting
(creative and engaging)
museums, and beautiful galleries

MUSIC AND DANCE

classical music and concerts,
dance: classical dance (ballet),
tango, Vienesse waltz, salsa,
and others

CREATIVE PEOPLE and
ARTISTS

talking and socializing with local
interesting and creative people

THEATRES

the best of opera, magical theatre buildings (we are in love with old theatre stages, the smell of the house), and enchanting plays

SOULFUL BUILDINGS

old and new libraries, town halls,
elegant palaces, proud castles

TRADITIONS

of different religions and cultures

BOOKS

classical literature (poetry)
and its creative word play

EXPLANATORY GEOGRAPHY

as an expalanation on why the
surroundings, country, city,
environment is as it is; looking
at the spaces and understanding
how they function, learning about
the social and cultural forces that
shape the life of a person
(or a nation)

TASTES

apart from the excellent cuisine
and wines, we also find a lot of
pleasure in exploring new (and
old) teas, and adding cakes,
cookies, or other deserts.

IMPORTANT
INTERDISCIPLINARY INSPIRATIONS

museum pedagogy and
cultural tourism.

TOPICS YOU WILL NOT HEAR ABOUT

sports, popular politics,* or popular culture. Academism as only dry lectures and the extensive accumulation of information. Instead,
we prefer useful knowledge, interesting insights, and lovingly brought presentations.

*We include politics as much as needed to understand the environment and the visited culture and no more.

Any Questions?

Don't hesitate to contact us.

If you find our philosophy resonates within, we invite you to contact us.

We will be happy to hear from you.

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