Final-year school trip to Europe’s places of remembrance: Ypres, Verdun, Struthof, Dachau and Nuremberg (8 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and Ypres

• Departure from your school in the morning, at the time agreed with you, and drive to Ypres (about 100 to 200 km depending on your school).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Visit to Tyne Cot military cemetery (free) and the German cemetery at Langemark (free).
• Lunch at your own expense, then visit to the In Flanders Fields Museum in the Cloth Hall (on request).
• Check-in at the accommodation for one night, dinner, then the Last Post ceremony at 8 pm under the Menin Gate.

Day 2: Drive to Verdun and the battlefield

• Departure after breakfast and drive to Verdun (about 330 km, 4 hours).
• Lunch at your own expense during a stop on the way.
• The Douaumont Ossuary and national cemetery, then the Trench of Bayonets.
• Visit to Fort Douaumont (on request).
• Check-in at the accommodation for one night, dinner and quiet evening.

Day 3: The Verdun Memorial and drive to Alsace

• Visit to the Verdun Memorial at Fleury-devant-Douaumont (on request).
• Walk through the destroyed village of Fleury, which “died for France” in 1916.
• Lunch at your own expense, then drive to Alsace (about 270 km, 3½ hours).
• Check-in at the accommodation in the Strasbourg area for two nights, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: Struthof and Strasbourg

• Drive to Mont Louise (about 60 km) and guided visit to the former Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members (on request).
• Return to Strasbourg and lunch at your own expense.
• Visit to the Parlamentarium Simone Veil, the European Parliament’s visitor centre (free).
• Walk through the Petite France quarter to Strasbourg Cathedral.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 5: The Dachau memorial

• Rooms vacated after breakfast and drive to Bavaria (about 400 km, 4½ to 5 hours).
• Lunch at your own expense during a stop on the way.
• Visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (free admission), with a guide (on request).
• Check-in at the accommodation in the Munich area for one night, dinner and time for discussion with the teachers.

Day 6: Munich and drive to Nuremberg

• Visit to the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism (free), on the site of the former “Brown House”.
• Marienplatz, Odeonsplatz and the White Rose memorial at the university, honouring the student resistance fighters.
• Lunch at your own expense, then drive to Nuremberg (about 170 km, 2 hours).
• Check-in at the accommodation for two nights, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 7: Nuremberg, from the Nazi rallies to the trial

• Visit to the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds (on request).
• Walk across the former rally grounds to the Zeppelin Tribune.
• Lunch at your own expense, then visit to the Memorium Nuremberg Trials and Courtroom 600 (on request).
• Walk through the old town to the foot of the Imperial Castle.
• Dinner and last supervised evening.

Day 8: Return to Belgium

• Departure after breakfast.
• Daytime drive back to Belgium (about 500 to 750 km) with regular stops.
• Lunch at your own expense during a stop on the way.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.