Final-year school trip to Paris: the Louvre, Orsay, the Orangerie, Montmartre and street art (5 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and arrival in Paris

• Departure from your school early in the morning, at the agreed time, and daytime drive to Paris (about 3.5 to 4.5 hours depending on the departure point, excluding breaks).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Arrival in the late morning and free lunch on the Île de la Cité.
• Free visit of Notre-Dame Cathedral, reopened in December 2024 after its restoration (free admission), then a walk through the Latin Quarter.
• Check-in at the accommodation for four nights, dinner and a quiet evening.

Day 2: The Louvre, the Tuileries and the Orangerie

• Guided visit of the Louvre: the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace and Delacroix's large canvases (on request).
• Free lunch, then a walk through the Tuileries Garden to the Place de la Concorde.
• Visit of the Musée de l'Orangerie and Monet's Water Lilies (on request).
• Guided cruise on the Seine at the end of the day, from the Eiffel Tower to Notre-Dame.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: Orsay, Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Montmartre

• Visit of the Musée d'Orsay, housed in a former railway station: Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Degas and Cézanne (on request).
• Walk through Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the district of literary cafés and art galleries.
• In the afternoon, Montmartre: the Sacré-Cœur Basilica (free admission) and its view over Paris, the Place du Tertre and its painters, and the Bateau-Lavoir, where Picasso painted "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon".
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: Street art and modern art

• Street art trail in the 13th arrondissement: the giant murals of Boulevard Vincent-Auriol and Rue Nationale, then the stencils of the Butte-aux-Cailles.
• As the Centre Pompidou is closed for renovation until 2030, modern art is discovered at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (free permanent collections): Matisse, Delaunay and Dufy's "La Fée Électricité".
• Visit of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Frank Gehry's glass building in the Bois de Boulogne (on request).
• Supervised free time in the Belleville district and the Parc de Belleville, for the view over Paris at the end of the day.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 5: The Marais and return to Belgium

• Rooms vacated after breakfast.
• Walk through the Marais and the Place des Vosges, the oldest square in Paris.
• Visit of the Musée national Picasso-Paris (on request).
• Departure in the early afternoon, daytime drive back to Belgium with regular breaks.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.