France: History
Program includes
- Roundtrip Airfare
- 6 Nights of Accommodation
- Daily Continental Breakfast
- Welcome & Farewell Dinners
- All Ground Transportation
- Historical & Cultural Walking Tours
- Entrance to All Venues
- Travelers Insurance
Program highlights
- Musée de la Libération de Paris
- Caen Memorial
- Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
- German Military Cemetery
- Utah Beach Landing Museum
- Mont Saint-Michel
- Museum of the Battle of Normandy
- THE 360° CINEMA
- Caen Weekly Market
Itinerary
Day 1 – Departure
- Depart from Home for Paris, France
Day 2 – Paris
- Arrive in Paris, France
- Airport Transfer
- Check-In & Refresh
- Historical & Cultural Walking Tour – Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Élysées, Montmartre, Les Invalides, Moulin Rouge, Place de la Concorde, Île de la Cité, Place de la Bastille etc.
- Eiffel Tower & Champ de Mars – The tower shines like a beacon each night with 40km of illuminated garlands made up of 20,000 light bulbs.
- 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
- Musée de la Libération de Paris – 100 steps down a concrete staircase, visitors begin their trip with a literal descent into history. This was the command post where Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, leader of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) in the Île-de-France region, helped mastermind the liberation of Paris.
- Guided Bus Tour of Paris
- Free Time & Cultural Immersion
Day 4 – Bayeux
- Breakfast & Day Briefing
- Transfer to Caen (approx. ½ h)
- Caen Memorial – Visiting the Mémorial de Caen first upon arriving in Normandy will give you a broad overview of World War II and the essential role of the region’s beaches played in on fateful Tuesday, June 6, 1944.
- Caen Local Market
- Return to Bayeux
Day 5 – Bayeux
- Breakfast & Day Briefing
- Transfer to Longues sur Mer (approx. ½ h)
- Longues-sur-Mer Battery – World War II German artillery battery constructed near the French village of Longues-sur-Mer in Normandy. The battery was sited on a 60m cliff overlooking the sea and formed a part of Germany’s Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications
- Transfer to Arromanches-les-Bains (approx. ½ h)
- THE 360° CINEMA – Located on the Arromanches clifftops, the Arromanches 360 Circular cinema dominates the remnants of one of the two artificial Mulberry harbours set up by the Allies
- Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville sur Mer – World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American troops who died in Europe during World War II. It holds 9,387 American graves. Most of the soldiers buried here were involved in the Normandy D-Day landings and the battles that followed.
- Return to Bayeux
Day 6 – Bayeux
- Breakfast & Day Briefing
- Quick Stop at Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument
- Transfer to La Cambe (approx. ½ h)
- Germany Military Cemetery – It is the largest German war cemetery in Normandy and contains over 21,200 German military personnel
- Transfer to Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (approx. ½ h)
- Utah Beach Landing Museum – Modern museum on the site of the 1944 D-Day landing, with multimedia exhibits on WWII history
- Free Time & Cultural Immersion
- Return to Bayeux
Day 7 – Bayeux
- Breakfast & Day Briefing
- Transfer to Mont Saint-Michel (approx. 2 h) A magical island topped by a gravity-defying medieval monastery, the Mont-Saint-Michel counts among France’s most stunning sights
- Return to Bayeux
- Farewell Dinner & Program Closing
Day 8 – Departure
- Breakfast & Day Briefing
- Transfer to Paris
- Depart Paris, France for Home
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