Fine Art Fantasia

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Length: 7 days. Group educational tours for 12 or more students or adults. Self-designed custom tours typically led by teachers of high school juniors and seniors.

Highlights: London City Tour, National Theatre Tour, West End Theatre Performance, Paris City Tour, The Louvre, Clay Modeling Workshop, Montmartre Dinner, Giverny, Florence City Tour, Italian Cooking Class

Itinerary: London (2), Paris (3), Florence (2)

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Day 1 – Depart

Board your flight to England.

Day 2 – London

Touch down in the cosmopolitan city of London. Your TSA Tours guide will meet and accompany you on a London City Tour. See the Tower of London, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament. Also visit impressive Westminster Abbey to see Poets’ Corner with its monuments to Chaucer, Dickens, Longfellow, Hardy and other literary notables.

Day 3 – London

Join a backstage tour at the National Theatre and see one of the largest and most advanced theatres in the world. The afternoon is free to visit the art gallery of your choice. Choose from the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, or one of many others. Continue your curtain call adventures tonight at an exciting West End Theatre Performance.

Day 4 – Paris

Travel to France by crossing the English Channel to France via the Chunnel.

Day 5 – Paris

Bon jour! A local guide will introduce you to the magnificent “City of Light” on your Paris City Tour. See the Place de l’Opera, the Champs-Elysees, the Eiffel Tower and other highlights. Visit the Louvre, the largest museum in the world. Pay attention to the beautifully proportioned Venus de Milo because you will later try your hand at sculpture in a Clay Modeling Workshop taught by a local artist. Continue your artistic motif with dinner tonight in bohemian Montmartre, the birthplace of modern art made famous by artists such as Picasso, Renoir, Modigliani, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Day 6 – Paris

Journey to Giverny, where Claude Monet devoted himself to making a garden and painting his famous Water Lilies. Stroll through the exquisite gardens that inspired the artist and see the famous Japanese Bridge that the Impressionist master painted tirelessly. Return to Paris.

Day 7 – Paris - Florence

Transfer to the airport for your one-way flight to Florence. Welcome to Firenze, the city where the Renaissance began nearly 500 years ago. This historic center of European civilization represents the peak in Italy’s art, thought, and culture. On your City Tour, see the Piazza del Duomo with the magnificent cathedral and baptistery whose East door is Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise, a renowned landmark of Renaissance sculpture. Also see the Piazza del Signoria, the Loggia, and the Palazzo Vecchio. Continue on to visit the Accademia to see Michelangelo’s famous sculpture David. Option: Tour the famous Uffizi, home to the collections put together by generations of the Medici family that allow you to follow the changes in Italian art from its beginnings to the 17th century. See spectacular masterpieces by Raphael, Giotto, Caravaggio and Michelangelo.

Day 8 – Florence

Expand your culinary skills at today’s Italian Cooking Class. Florence is also noted for the excellence of its cuisine. In fact, this is where Italian cooking was born, at the court of the Medici. Mangiare bene! The afternoon is free for additional explorations of this remarkable city and for shopping for bargains at the Straw Market or on the Ponte Vecchio, spanning the Arno River.

Day 9 – Depart

Return home with new skills and a fresh awareness of the art and culture of Europe.

London

London city tour
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul's Cathedral
Buckingham Palace
Changing of the Guard
Hop-on, Hop-off bus tour
West End play
Shakespeare's Globe tour
Globe Theatre Performance
Behind the Stage tour
Thames River cruise
Tower of London
Covent Garden
Greenwich
London Eye
Madame Tussauds
Afternoon tea at Harrods
London Dungeon
Jack the Ripper tour
British Museum
The National Gallery
Victoria & Albert Museum
Imperial War Museum
Churchill War Rooms
Charles Dickens Museum

Edinburgh

Edinburgh city tour
Edinburgh Castle
Holyrood Palace
The National Museum
The National Gallery
Scottish folk dinner show
Witchery tour
The Writers' Museum
The Royal Yacht Britannia
Our Dynamic Earth science museum

Dublin

Dublin city tour
Dublin Castle
Trinity College – Book of Kells
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Dublin Writers Museum
Guinness Storehouse

Limerick

Rock of Cashel
Bunratty Castle and Folk Park
Adare Village
Glenstall Abbey

Killarney

Ring of Kerry
Blarney Castle
Muckross Abbey
Ross Castle
Torc Waterfall

Paris

Paris city tour
Paris by Night Tour
Notre Dame Cathedral
Holy Chapel
Eiffel Tower (2nd or 3rd Level)
Bateaux Mouches river cruise
Seine River Dinner Cruise
Louvre Museum
Orsay Museum
Rodin Museum
Opera Garnier
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Montmartre dinner
Moulin Rouge show
Sacred Heart Basilica
Paris Catacombs
Paris Sewers Tour
Latin Quarter tour
The Marais Tower
Pompidou Center

Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo city tour
Castle Museum
Jacques Cartier Manor House
The Grand Aquarium
National Fort
St. Vincent Cathedral

Lyon

Lyon city tour
Basilica of Our Lady of Fourviere
Gallo-Roman Museum and Ruins
St-Jean Cathedral

Aix-en-Provence

Aix city tour
Cezanne's Studio
Cathedral of the Holy Saviour

Nice

Nice city tour
Monaco city tour
Eze perfume factory
Language homestay
Matisse Museum
The Castle
Theatre of Photography and Image
Russian Cathedral
Nice Archaeology Museum

Caen

Caen city tour
Abbey of the Ladies
Abbey of Men
Normandy Museum
Museum of Fine Arts

Tours

City tours
Tours Cathedral
Museum of Fine Arts
Amboise Castle
Chambord Castle
Chenonceau Castle
Chantilly Castle

Normandy

D-Day tour
Mont Saint-Michel
Bayeux Tapestry

Marseille

Marseille city tour
Our Lady of the Guard
Mediterranean Archeology Museum
Longchamp Castle
Castle of If

Rome

Rome city tour
Ancient Rome tour with Colosseum
Vatican City tour with Sistine Chapel
St. Peter's Basilica
Basilica of St. John Lateran
Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
Evening walking tour – Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona
Borghese Gallery
Pantheon
Appian Way and the Catacombs
Castel Sant'Angelo
Nero's Palace
Baths of Caracalla
Capitoline Museums
National Roman Museum
National Gallery of Roman Art

Florence

Florence city tour
Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo)
Campanile
Baptistery of San Giovanni
Basilica of Santa Croce
Basilica of San Lorenzo
Pitti Palace
Uffizi Gallery
Academy Gallery
San Miniato al Monte
Bargello
Medici Riccardi Palace

Bologna

Bologna city tour
Tower of the Asinellis
Archaeological Museum
Jewish Museum
National Picture Gallery
University Museums
Lamborghini Museum
Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca

Naples

Naples city tour
Duomo
Santa Chiara Monastery
San Lorenzo Maggiore
New Castle
Capodimonte Museum
San Carlo Theater

Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre tour

Venice

Venice city tour
Doge's Palace
St. Mark's Basilica
Academy Gallery
Ca' d'Oro
Correr Museum
Ca'Rezzonico
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Murano glass-making demonstration
Burano
Torcello

Genoa

Genoa city tour
Aquarium of Genoa
Palazzo Bianco Gallery
Palazzo Rosso Gallery
Galata Seafaring Museum
National Gallery
Ducal Palace
Museum of Sant'Agostino

Sorrento

Sorrento city tour
Teatro Tasso tarantella show
Correale di Terranova Museum
Isle of Capri
Pompeii archaeological site
Herculaneum archaeological site
Amalfi
Positano

Milan

Milan city tour
Duomo
Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery
Sforzesco Castle
Teatro alla Scala
Santa Maria della Grazie (The Last Supper)

Pisa

Pisa city tour
Leaning Tower
Duomo and Baptistery
Museum of the Duomo Opera

Siena

Siena city tour
Duomo
National Art Gallery
Tower of Mangia
Metropolitan Opera Museum

London

Windsor Castle
Leeds Castle
Hampton Court Palace
Kew Palace
Kensington Palace
Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare's Birthplace
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Warwick Castle
Stonehenge
Bath
Canterbury
Salisbury
Oxford
Cambridge
White Cliffs of Dover

Edinburgh

Stirling Castle
National Wallace Monument
St. Andrews
Glasgow
Loch Ness
Loch Lomond
Trossachs National Park
Lake District National Park

Dublin

Malahide Castle & Dublin Bay
Blarney Castle
Cliffs of Moher
Aran Islands
Galway Bay
Connemara
Powerscourt Estate
Waterford Crystal Tour

Paris

Normandy WWII sites
Arromanche 360 cinema
Monet's Gardens at Giverny
Chartres Cathedral
Palace of Fontainebleau
Palace and Gardens of Versailles
Disneyland Paris
Loire Valley castles
Intensive Language Classes
Provins

Rome

Tivoli – Hadrian's Villa and Villa d'Este
Pompeii archaeological site
Hurculaneum archaeological site
Ostia Antica
Montepulciano
Siena
Orvieto
Tarquinia

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United Kingdom

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Capital: London

Official Language(s): English

France

Currency: Euro (EUR)

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Capital: Paris

Official Language(s): French

Italy

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Capital: Rome

Official Language(s): Italian