Morning:Afternoon:Evening: |
Arrive from your overnight flight to Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, where you will travel by reserved shuttle service to the hotel. Meet with your tour director at a Welcome-to-Paris luncheon in a quaint cafe near the hotel. Following lunch, you'll get a chance to stretch those legs and take a walking tour of Ile de la Cite and Notre Dame Cathedral with your tour guide. Then, free time to shop, relax, etc. until dinner. Join other arrivals to the tour this evening at a Welcome Dinner at the hotel. Free French wine and food on us, of course! Don't stay up too late tonight though, as we have a busy day planned for tomorrow! |
Morning:Afternoon:Evening: | Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the Musee du Louvre with your
art historian tour guide. Today, we will focus on French paintings by
Fouquet, Poussin, LeBrun, Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, David, Ingres,
Gericault and Delacroix.
Special lunch at the Louvre, followed by a private viewing of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci! Dinner on your own. Join your fellow travelers this evening for an optional cruise along the river Seine, and see Paris, the City of Light, at night! |
Morning:Afternoon:Evening: | Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the Musee d'Orsay with your
art historian tour guide. We will examine masterpieces by Corot, the
Barbizon School, early Manet and Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin,
Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Take a walking guided tour of the colorful Montmartre neighborhood, once home to many Impressionist artists. Lunch on your own. Dinner on your own. Perhaps you'll take a twilight ride up the Eiffel Tower? Perhaps you'll wander the winding streets of the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank? The possibilities are seemingly endless in this enjoyable city! |
Morning:Afternoon:Evening: | Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the Musee Rodin with your
guide. For a change of pace, today we explore a museum devoted entirely to
the sculpture of Rodin. You will be in awe of his creations such as "Age
of Bronze," "Balzac," "Gates of Hell," and the "Burghers of Calais."
Visit the Musee de Cluny, with its Medieval marvels of architecture, stained-glass windows, tapestries, and other treasures. Lunch on your own. Dinner on your own. For dessert, maybe try a French pastry.. or two, ... or three, or.......? |
Morning:Afternoon:Evening: | Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the Musee Picasso. View
amazing paintings from Picasso's early Blue Period, from his Cubist and
classical phases, and from his post WWI flirtation with Surrealism.
Free time this afternoon. Maybe you'll choose to lunch at a Parisian cafe, linger a bit longer at the museum, or sit in one of Paris' many outdoor parks and watch the world go by! Dinner on your own. Take a guided tour of the Museum of Modern Art, the Pompidou Center, and experience the art of modern masters from Matisse to Magritte. |
Morning:Afternoon:Evening: | Breakfast at the hotel. With your guide, visit the Musee
Marmottan-Monet which houses the largest collection of Monet paintings in
the world!
Lunch on your own. Then shopping perhaps? Dinner and wine-tasting with the tour group. |
Morning:Afternoon:Evening: | Breakfast at the hotel. Full-day trip to visit Monet's
house and gardens at Giverny, outside of Paris. See Monet's Japanese
bridge, and his waterlily ponds and gardens, all designed by Monet
himself, which inspired so much of his later work.
Lunch on your own. Dinner on your own. The Musee de L'Orangerie in the Jardin de Tuileries in Paris is open this evening, and that's exactly where we are headed! See firsthand the breath-taking "Les Nympheas," Claude Monet's grand-scale waterscape of his ponds and waterlilies, which he bequeathed to the people of France in 1918. |
Morning:Afternoon/ | Farewell Breakfast with your tour group. Flights depart for home. |