![Image of Choir members standing on a bridge over an Italian canal](/sites/default/files/styles/image/public/featured/choir_tour_italy_2016_group_shot.jpg?h=dec22bcf&itok=dX7O9nwZ)
Italy 2016
In December 2016 the Combined Choirs travelled to northern Italy to give a series of concerts of seasonal music.
Staying in the medieval walled town of Cittadella, the choirs gave a concert in the the magnificent Sala dei Giganti in the University of Padua and in the Duomo San Lorenzo in Abano Terme. The tour finished with a day in Venice, the choir visited St Mark's Basilica and the surrounding area before participating in a Mass in the imposing Basilica Santa Maria dei Frari.