Pre-congress Tours
Accompanying Persons’ Program
Paris is a dynamic city. A renowned cultural capital and always at the forefront of current affairs, Paris is never short of ideas. You will find all your interests satisfied. Paris offers unforgettable visits and walks. Museums and many other unmissable and marvellous places to experience.
A specific optional tours program has been taylormade for regularly registered participants and accompanying persons. These visits will be an excellent opportunity to discover some of the most outstanding artistic and historic highlights of Paris and its surroundings.
Be guided through the intensity and richness of culture and taste the Parisian art-de-vivre!
Tour programs, descriptions and conditions are indicated here below. To sign up for tours, please tick corresponding boxes on the registration form.
- All tours will be conducted in English.
- Full day excursions include lunch.
- The organizers reserve the right to cancel tours with less than 15 participants.
| SATURDAY 21 & SUNDAY 22 JUNE | MONDAY 23 JUNE | TUESDAY 24 JUNE | WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE | |
| 2 Days Pre Tour |
F1: Two days
in the Loire F2 : Two days in Normandy |
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| Morning | V1-11:00 am - 1:30 pm Paris city tour | V3-9:00-12:00 am Walking tour of the Marais district |
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V4-9:00-12:00 am |
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| Full day | V2-8:30 am - 5:00 pm Claude Monet at Giverny |
Pre-Congress tours
CHATEAU DE LA LOIRE - 2 DAYS
Saturday 21 June
F1- Price per person : in a double room : 550€
(Accommodation in a first class hotel).
Supplement for single room : + 70€
We will leave Paris at 07:30 for a coach trip to the LOIRE VALLEY, escorted by a professional guide. Our first visit will be the Château of BLOIS. It is certainly the finest example of the royal architecture from the 13th to the 17th centuries in the Loire Valley.
Driving along the Loire River, we will reach TOURS.
Early evening, we visit TOURS, where we'll do a walking tour of the old quarters of the Loire's capital with the XVth century half timbered houses and others dating back to the Renaissance period around Place Plumereau and the Hotel Gouin. Dinner and overnight at Tours Hotel.
Sunday 22 June
Buffet style breakfast in the hotel. In the morning, the soft touch “or French douceur de vivre” begins with the visit of the famous gardens of VILLANDRY composed of three pattern terraces: The water garden, the ornamental garden and the kitchen one. We certainly won’t leave without admiring the most incredible one: The garden of love! We go on with the visit of the CHATEAU DE CHENONCEAU. Offered by King Henri II to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers and then decorated by Quenn Catherine de Medicis, the chateau de Chenonceau was built like a bridge over the river CHER. The Great Gallery and the Queen's Chamber have been restored and furnished with XVIth century chests and cabinets. Lunch in a restaurant near the Chateau.
Chambord will be our last stop before returning to Paris early evening. In order to admire the former example of medieval planning fortress which is so delicately combined with an Italian Renaissance decoration much in the fashion of the earliest XVI century. It is the second largest château of France after Versailles and its beautiful forest is still inhabited by wild animals.
NORMANDY - 2 DAYS
Saturday 21 June
F2- Price per person : in a double room : 550€.
(Accommodation in a first class hotel)
Supplement for single room : + 70€
We will leave Paris at 07.30 am in direction of CAEN, the capital of low Normandy where we will visit of the Memorial of Caen. This museum is entirely dedicated to the 2nd world war and is certainly exceptional because of documents and films of great quality.
Our next stop will be in BAYEUX where, after lunch, we will see the very famous Tapestry of Queen Matilda. It can be compared to a cartoon with realistic and comic scenes counting the conquest of England by William the Conqueror.
The end of the afternoon will be dedicated to the visits of very impressive sites of the Landing of 1944 such as La Pointe du Hoc and the American cemetery of Omaha Beach.
Dinner and overnight in CAEN.
Sunday 22 June
After a buffet style breakfast in the hotel, we will follow the very nice road of “La Côte Fleurie” with its very famous seaside resorts, created under the second empire by the French high society. The two finest cities still very in fashion today are Cabourg and Deauville.
We will then have lunch in HONFLEUR, a lovely sailing and fishing port.
Our last stop on our way back to Paris will be ROUEN, the capital of High Normandy, where we will have a walking tour of the medieval pedestrian quarter of Le Gros Horloge and the Cathedral, immortalised by Claude Monet.
