Depart Home for Paris, France
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.
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.
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
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
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
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:
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.
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Free Day in Paris
Suggestions:
Cinema Museum - The Cinémathèque Française Film Center in Paris is dedicated to the collection, conservation, restoration and the exhibition of worldwide film documents.
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
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Free Day in Paris
Farewell Dinner and Program Closing
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Airport Transfer
Depart Paris, France for Home