Visit France: Art Tour

9 Days/8 Nights

DAY 1: HOME – PARIS 

Board your transatlantic flight and fly through the night to France.

DAY 2: PARIS 

Bienvenue en France! Meet your Prométour Tour Director upon arrival at the airport.

Transfer to your hotel. Drop off your luggage.

Explore Paris with your Prometour Tour Director; see Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Elysées, the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Admire the architecture of Paris from the Seine aboard a Bateau Mouche.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Paris.

DAY 3: PARIS 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Guided tour of the Musée du Louvre – discover some of its wonderful masterpieces including Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

Spend time in the Jardins des Tuileries – Manet was inspired by the Fetes des Tuileries for famous painting ”La Musique aux Tuileries”.

Lunch on your own.

Join Street Art Paris for a walking tour the 13th Arrondissement, famous for its murals! Put your skills at work in a mural graffiti workshop!

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Paris.

DAY 4: PARIS 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Travel to Giverny.

Spend the morning visiting Claude Monet’s House and admire the blooming gardens – They’ve inspired the Master of Impressionism to portray his passion for gardening and colors.

Lunch on your own nearby.

Return to Paris.

Discover the Quartier Montmartre – It was and still is the source of inspiration to many artists, such as Pissarro, Van Gogh, Delacroix.

Explore the lively Place du Tertre.

Dinner in a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Paris.

DAY 5: PARIS – ARLES 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Transfer to the train station by bus.

Board the High-Speed Train to Avignon.

Lunch on your own upon arrival.

Travel to Arles.

Guided walking tour of Van Gogh’s Vision of Arles – see where he set up his easels to paint the Yellow House, the Arena, the Jardins d’été.

Explore the exhibits dedicated to the painter at the Espace Van Gogh.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Arles.

DAY 6: ARLES – AIX-EN-PROVENCE 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Travel to Baux-de-Provence – one of the most picturesque villages in France.

At Carrières de Lumières, immerse yourselves into a visual and musical production on the masters of Japanese prints – geishas, samurai warriors, and spirits.

Lunch on your own.

Continue on to Aix-en-Provence.

Visit Atelier Paul Cezanne – the mostly unchanged studio where the painters created some of his most famous still lifes.

Explore Aix-en-Provence at your own pace.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Aix-en-Provence.

DAY 7: AIX-EN-PROVENCE – NICE 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Travel to Grasse, a hilltop town in France.

Visit Parfumerie Fragonard and partake in a class to learn how French perfumes are made – bring your own creation home!

Lunch on your own.

Continue to Nice.

Discover the Vieux Nice – See the narrow streets teeming with local life, buildings painted a faded Roman gold, flower-strewn gardens.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Nice.

DAY 8: NICE 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Enter the Musée Matisse, a national museum devoted to the work of French painter – Nice is where he created in most famous paintings, such as ”La Baie de Nice”.

Lunch on your own.

Leisure time Nice’s centerpiece; Place Masséna – this pedestrian-only zone is one of the prettiest places in town.

Enter the Confiserie Florian and see how the famous Bonbon Niçois are made from fruits & flowers of the area.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Nice.

DAY 9: NICE – HOME 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Transfer by motor coach to the airport.

Say Au Revoir to your Prométour Tour Director.

Board your flight and return home.

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