Itinerary:

Each morning, Monday through Thursday, from 900 AM until 12:00 Noon, you will attend classes. From 1:00 PM and into each evening you will participate in a privately-guided excursion. A beautiful dinner will be included each evening.

Sunday Evening: Welcome Reception and Dinner, 7:00 PM to 10:00PM

Monday Afternoon: Boat-ride and Dinner on the Seine

We will have a romantic dinner in a restaurant-boat of Marina de Paris while on a cruise on the Seine river through Paris and its most famous monuments and bridges (menu at choice with wines and coffee included).

The first part of the cruise will be done by day light, but the return will be by night with the beautiful Illuminations of the city.

Tuesday Afternoon: GRAND LOUVRE (WALKING TOUR)

Paris by Day
Our famous Grand Louvre WALKING TOUR begins with a stroll through the commercial area of the Louvre museum. The visit continues inside the museum where our guide presents various areas such as the medieval fortress, the modern pyramid, the Egyptian department and the most reputed works of art such as the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.

Dinner in the Marais, one of the most sumptuous and surprising quarters of Paris.  It is one of the few places in Paris that nourishes the eccentric, mixes classic beauty with quirky charms, cradles tradition while breathing life into creative minds that cherish innovation. In walking distance of the Louvre, the Seine, the Sorbonne, and Notre Dame; it is the city within a city, where one can be who they want to be.

Wednesday Afternoon: The Latin Quarter
                                                                         
 A short walk down the Rue de la Seine is St Germain des Prés and the Latin Quarter. We will have a drink at the Deux Magots, full of tourists but still keeping the feel of its left wing literary past. Walk on down the Boulevard St Germain to the Boulevard St Michel, home of the Université de Paris.

Soak in the student atmosphere of the Sorbonne, ignoring the bustle of tourists. There may be more visitors than intellectuals but the place has a vibrancy and bustle that is special being France's oldest university centre.
The area is stacked with second hand bookshops, including those specializing in English books, and masses of bistros. 

The area also has some of Paris's oldest relics, the Gallo-Roman baths near Cluny that are the remains of the ancient Roman city on this site, the Eglise St-Etienne du Mont which is the memorial to St Geneviève, Paris's patron saint.
For a change of pace and a picnic there is the Jardin du Luxembourg, dedicated to the children of Paris by Napoléon. The old carousel and the playgrounds are fun and also the Botanic Gardens.

The Latin Quarter dates back to Roman times and continues to be associated with artists and intellectuals. Here you'll also find the Institut du Monde Arabe, Musée de Cluny, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in the Jardin des Plantes, the Panthéon and the Sorbonne (Paris's most famous university).

We will have dinner at one of the many charming restaurants in the Quarter.

Thursday Afternoon: The Musee D’Orsay & The Eiffel Tour

Shining on the gallery walls, the paintings reflect idyllic and rural scenes, and abstract and cubist art. The museum is filled with the splendor and beauty of the Impressionists.

Serenely spread throughout the first floor, the early mid-19th century paintings are visions of ideal beauty. In Alexandre Canabel's Birth of Venus (1863), for instance, a world of fair goddesses and mythic heroes float in front of you. The divine life locked inside these paintings was enough to make the critics swoon.  Vincent Van Gogh's (1853-1890) Van Gogh's Room at Arles (1889) blurs the line between art and the inner mind.

The next generation of painters, including Redon, Gaugin, and the Neoimpressionists Signac and Seurat, exploded beyond all previous standards of art in the last upper level section of the Musee d'Orsay. Their canvases lead one into the world of symbolism, using bolder patches of color and flatter planes. In these dizzying paintings, the world is deconstructed and examined in a new, abstract realm that had never before been explored through paint.

Lastly, a beautiful place to finish one's contemplation is on the terrace almost completely devoted to the sculptures of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). His works are a prime example of the ever-evolving art of the nineteenth century, combining classical sculpture with a new, vibrant spontaneity.

We will conclude the day with a magnificent dinner in the Eiffel Tour.

Friday: A Day at Versailles

Versailles is the witness of the Grandeur of French classical architecture. The layout of the city, its palace and gardens, reflect the will of one King, Louis XIV, known as the Sun King. In the beautifully decorated State Apartments - Hall of Mirrors and Queen's Apartments, our guide will enthrall you on the life of the Kings.
Free time to stroll around the palace.

A farewell Dinner on Friday evening at a local Brasserie.