Catalog Tour

France: North to South

France: North to South covers the country's full range in 12 days, tracing a line from the D-Day beaches of Normandy down through Loire Valley château country and into the Riviera light of Nice. That sweep is the point. Students don't get a single-city portrait of France — they get the country in layers, each stop genuinely different from the last, each one building on what came before.

Duration12 days · 11 nights

CountriesFrance

Cities5 stops

Group size6 – 80+ travelers

Best fitCustom & private

Destination guide: Caen →

Arrival Paris

Arrival transfer

Travel to Caen via Rouen

Sightseeing stop in Rouen

Dinner

Overnight

At a glance

Days12

Countries1

Cities5

OvernightsCaen 1, St. Malo 2, Amboise 1, Paris 4, Nice 2

Best fit for

Custom & private

Curriculum fit

Analyze the strategic and human significance of the Normandy landings using sites and memorials in and around Caen as primary evidence.
Compare the medieval fortified architecture of St. Malo with the Renaissance château design encountered in the Loire Valley near Amboise.
Evaluate how distinct Parisian neighborhoods — including Montmartre and the Latin Quarter — reflect different social and artistic histories of the city.
Trace the geographic and cultural contrasts between northern and southern France by examining landscape, architecture, and regional identity from Normandy to the Côte d'Azur.
Interpret the role of cave-dwelling settlement and vernacular foodways in Loire Valley culture through firsthand experience at a troglodyte dining site.
Examine how French urban planning, public transit infrastructure, and city layout in Paris illustrate broader principles of European civic design.

Drafted from the day-by-day. Use as a starting point for your syllabus.

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