Burghley is one of the largest and grandest houses of the first Elizabethan age, and has been home to the Cecil Family for over 400 years. A superb example of British heritage and an English mansion. A visit to this historic home transports you back through the centuries as you explore the quarter of a mile of staterooms, containing breathtaking painted ceilings by AntonioVerrio, including his Heaven Room and Hell Staircase, over 400 paintings, and a wonderful collection of Japanese porcelain.

The 2009 Treasury Exhibition will be 'The Travelling Earls' a celebration of  two men, and one woman, who in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries influenced the development of this magnificient house. Their lives, the journeys that they undertook and the purchases that they made during grand tours of Europe form the basis of this year's exhibition, which will include pieces not normally on display.