“BALKAN AESTHETICS”

12 days, 11 nights, May 22-June 2, 2017. Led by Joseph Benatov, expert on Balkan culture. Highlights: In Bucharest, ROMANIA, open-air National Village Museum/Sinaia Monastery/cross Danube into BULGARIA/in Veliko Turnovo, working artisans/Etara open-air crafts museum/in Plovdiv, ancient Roman theater, 14th-century mosque/in Sofia, Museum of Socialist Art/in Thessaloniki, GREECE, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art/in Vergina, tomb of Philip II. $3,750 ppdo. Single supp., $650. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (Brattleboro, VT; 802/257-0124,  ext. 101, www.brattleboromuseum.org).