Final-year school trip to Luxembourg: the casemates, the European institutions, Roman Trier and the Moselle Valley (4 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and arrival in Luxembourg

• Departure from your school in the morning, at the agreed time, and daytime drive to the Grand Duchy (about 2 to 3 hours depending on your school, excluding stops).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Lunch at your own expense, then walk through the old town: Place Guillaume II, the Grand Ducal Palace, Notre-Dame Cathedral (free entry) and the Chemin de la Corniche.
• Visit to the casemates, the underground galleries of the former fortress (Bock or Pétrusse, depending on opening).
• Check-in at the accommodation for three nights, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 2: Kirchberg and the Court of Justice of the European Union

• Group visit to the Court of Justice of the European Union, with a presentation of its role and, depending on the calendar, a public hearing (free, by reservation).
• Walk through the European district of Kirchberg, then visit to the Dräi Eechelen Museum in Fort Thüngen, devoted to the history of the fortress (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense, then funicular ride down to Pfaffenthal and back up with the panoramic lift (free).
• Walk through the Grund district, along the Alzette, at the foot of the ramparts.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: A day in Trier, the Rome of the North

• Drive to Trier (about 1 hour) and visit to the Porta Nigra, a 2nd-century Roman gate (on request).
• Walk via the Market Square to St Peter’s Cathedral and the Church of Our Lady (free entry), then the Basilica of Constantine (free entry).
• Lunch at your own expense, then visit to the Imperial Baths (on request) and a stop at the Roman amphitheatre.
• Return to Luxembourg, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: The Moselle Valley and return to your school

• Rooms vacated after breakfast, luggage loaded onto the coach.
• Drive to Schengen (about 40 min), the village on the three borders where the agreements on free movement were signed in 1985, and its European monument.
• Walk along the Remich esplanade, by the Moselle and its vineyard slopes, with a Moselle cruise (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense, then departure in the early afternoon, daytime drive back to Belgium.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.