Paris: Humanities

Cities: Paris, Versailles
Duration: 12 days
Area of Study: Humanities & Social Sciences

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Program Includes

  • 10 Nights of Accommodation
    • 2-6 people per room for participants, each with their own bed and ensuite bathroom
    • Single for faculty/program leader with ensuite bathroom
    • Free wifi and daily continental breakfast
  • All Ground Transportation
  • Welcome & Farewell Dinners 
  • Historical & Cultural Walking Tours
  • Full Time On Site Program Director Available 24/7 in case of Emergencies 
  • 24/7 On-Ground Emergency Support
  • SAA’s Mandatory Health Insurance* (see next page) 
  • SAA’s $5m Liability Insurance (COI available upon request)
  • Tips & Gratuities

Program Highlights

  • Louvre Museum
  • Musée d’Orsay
  • Hop-on Hop-off Seine River Cruise
  • Versailles Palace
  • Paris Noir
  • Rodin’s Gardens
  • Montmartre Walking Tour
  • Art Class OR Cooking Class
  • Cartier Foundation
  • Picasso Museum
  • Delacroix Museum

Program Itinerary

day 1 / DEPARTURE

Depart Home for Paris, France

day 2 / PARIS

Arrive in Paris, France

Airport Transfer

Hotel Check-In, Relax & Refresh

Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. 

Welcome Dinner - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets. 

day 3 / PARIS

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Full Day at the Louvre Museum - This is the world's most-visited museum, and a historic landmark in Paris. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.

Notre-Dame & Île de la Cité - (see from outside)

Evening Seine Boat Cruise - Accompanied by a guide, you will go back in time on the most beautiful historical axis of Paris: the Seine. You will discover all its secrets through numerous anecdotes.

Eiffel Tower - OPTIONAL - This worldwide iconic landmark was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer", it was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the centerpiece of the 1889 World's Fair.

day 4 / PARIS

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Musée d’Orsay - It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. 

Lunch Break

Delacroix Museum - The Musée Delacroix is a unique space. The artist’s former home is a place of memory, created in homage to Delacroix by the greatest artists of the 1920s such as Maurice Denis, Paul Signac, Édouard Vuillard, and Ker-Xavier Roussel, to name a few. It is a testament to their admiration for the painter and his work

day 5 / VERSAILLES

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Day Trip to Versailles 

Château de Versailles - This is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 12 miles west of Paris. It is one of the greatest achievements in French 17th century art. Access the whole estate of Versailles (Palace, Estate of Trianon and the gardens) and to the exhibition "Louis XV, passions of a king".

Return to Paris

day 6 / PARIS

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Paris Noir - We start in the Latin Quarter, home of the most prestigious schools in France. 

We first focus on a hidden French Colonial History and the rise of « la Négritude »,  a Pan-African literary and political movement. Then we head to  Saint-Germain to talk about the contributions of African American Expats (from Richard Wright to James Baldwin) to Post-WWII France. 

Lunch Break

Rodin’s Gardens - Rodin's artwork is not only installed in the mansion itself, but also on its rose-filled garden—one of the most peaceful places in central Paris.The garden outside the museum displays a total of eight works

day 7 / PARIS

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Musée Carnavalet – Museum of the History of Paris - The Carnavalet-History of Paris Museum is the oldest City of Paris museum.It opened to the public on February 25, 1880. Along with the Louvre, it is one of the rare examples of Renaissance architecture in Paris.

Lunch Break

Free Afternoon

Suggestions:

day 8 / PARIS

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Free Morning

Lunch Break

Art Class OR Cooking Class - An original concept of creative workshops to learn, create, and practice inspired by and learning from Paris' unique cultural heritage and a real journey through the arts and culture.

day 9 / PARIS

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Free Day in Paris

Suggestions:

  • Brussels or Strasbourg Day Trip 
  • Catacombs of Paris - The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris' ancient stone quarries. 

Cinema Museum - The Cinémathèque Française Film Center in Paris is dedicated to the collection, conservation, restoration and the exhibition of worldwide film documents.

day 10 / PARIS

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Picasso Museum - The 5,000 works (including 300 paintings and 300 sculptures) and thousands of archival items: painted, drawn, sculpted or engraved, they depict the master in all Picasso’s creative ways.

Lunch Break

Montmartre Walking Tour & Sacré Coeur - Explore this famous neighbourhood of Paris, home to the Sacré-Cœur, the Moulin Rouge and  Van Gogh’s house; enjoy a ride on the funicular and enjoy this fascinating journey.

Wall Love - The wall was created in 2000 by artists Fédéric Baron and Claire Kito and is composed of 612 tiles of enamelled lava, on which the phrase 'I love you' is featured 311 times in 250 languagesù

day 11 / PARIS

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Free Day in Paris

Farewell Dinner and Program Closing

day 12 / RETURN

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Airport Transfer

Depart Paris, France for Home

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