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11 or 13 days ART OF ROME, FLORENCE & PARIS FACULTY-LED INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ABOUT THIS TOUR Europe’s renowned centers of Renaissance art and architecture come alive as you discover Italy and France. Admire amazing frescoes and craftwork at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City and the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, and enjoy an art-themed walking tour in Florence. End in elegant Paris, where you’ll have the chance to explore the masterpieces that line the halls of the Louvre. Through it all, you’ll return home prepared for whatever path lies ahead of you. Beyond photos and stories, new perspectives and glowing confidence, you’ll have something to carry with you for the rest of your life. It could be an inscription you read on the walls of a famous monument, or perhaps a joke you shared with another student from around the world. The fact is, there’s just something transformative about an EF College Study Tour, and it’s different for every traveler. Once you’ve traveled with us, you’ll know exactly what it is for you. DAY 3: Colosseum DAY 4: St. Peter’s Basilica DAY 5: Basilica of St. Francis DAY 6: Florence DAY 3: Taking a break at the Pantheon ART OF ROME, FLORENCE & PARIS 11 or 13 days INCLUDED ON TOUR: OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS: Round-trip airfare Caravaggio Art Tour • Giverny or Auvers-sur-Oise Land transportation Optional excursions let you incorporate additional Hotel and night train accommodations sites and attractions into your itinerary and make the Breakfast daily and select meals most of your time abroad. Full-time Tour Director Sightseeing tours and visits to special attractions Free time to study and explore EXTENSION: Amsterdam (2 days) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Extend your tour and enjoy extra time exploring your efcollegestudytours.com/PROA destination or seeing a new place at a great value. DAY 8: Arc de Triomphe DAY 8: Notre Dame DAY 9: Louvre DAY 11: Amsterdam DAY 1 FLY TO ITALY featuring the Italian artist’s work. At Santa DAY 8 PARIS draw is the building itself. Built for the 1900 Meet your group and travel on an overnight Maria del Popolo you will see Conversion of Sightseeing tour of Paris • Get a taste of Universal Exposition, the Gare d’Orsay fl ight to Rome. St. Paul and The Crucifi xion of St. Peter. San Parisian style as you ride down the famous functioned as a train station until 1939 and Luigi dei Francesi is home to the Matthew Champs-Élysées. You’ll pass by grand was converted into a museum in 1986. DAY 2 ROME trilogy: The Calling of Saint Matthew, St. monuments, including the obelisk in the The museum is noted for its collection of Arrive in Rome • Welcome to Rome! Matthew and the Angels and The Martyrdom Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Impressionist paintings—a walk through the Depending on your arrival time, you may have of Saint Matthew. At Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Triomphe. Next, strike a pose in front of upper gallery will reveal works by Monet, free time to settle in and explore the city on behold the Madonna di Loreto and learn the Eiffel Tower. When you see the lush Renoir, Degas, Sisley and Pissarro. your own. This evening, get to know your tour about the artist. and beautiful gardens of Les Tuileries, it’s Optional: Giverny or Auvers-sur-Oise group over a welcome pizza dinner. easy to forget the turbulent history of this (seasonal) • Join an optional half-day DAY 5 ASSISI • FLORENCE sophisticated city. excursion to the village of Giverny, where DAY 3 ROME Travel to Assisi • Travel to Assisi, whose Notre Dame Cathedral • Admire Notre impressionist painter Claude Monet lived for Sightseeing tour of Rome • Walk through religious signifi cance and outstanding Dame’s sculptured façade, stained-glass rose more than 40 years. Or head for Auvers-sur- the Colosseum, the world’s most famous Renaissance art draw visitors from every windows and seemingly weightless vaulted Oise, where Vincent Van Gogh worked and arena. Here, you can almost hear the corner of the globe. You’ll see the Basilica of ceilings. This evening, return to Paris and resided until his death. stamping feet of the crowds gathered for St. Francis, where Giotto’s painted frescoes enjoy dinner in the Latin Quarter. gladiatorial combat. Nearby, the ruins of the illustrate the life of one of Italy’s most beloved DAY 11 DEPART FOR HOME Roman Forum mark the former heart of the saints. Then, continue on to Florence. DAY 9 PARIS Roman Empire. Julius Caesar gave many of Sightseeing tour of the Louvre • An expert 2-DAY TOUR EXTENSION his political speeches on this site. DAY 6 FLORENCE guide will share insights about the artwork DAY 11 AMSTERDAM Rome on foot • On your self-guided walking Art tour of Florence • Take a tour of and artists represented at the incomparable Travel to Amsterdam • Travel by high-speed tour, view the Pantheon, built to honor all the Florence today with an expert local guide. Louvre during a guided tour for your group. train to Amsterdam. gods of Rome. Continue to the grand Piazza As the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, Built to defend the city in the 13th century, Rijksmuseum • Spend the afternoon Navona and the Spanish Steps, Europe’s Florence is home to some of the world’s the Louvre today safeguards one of the admiring works, including Rembrandt’s The widest staircase. Before you say “arrivederci,” most exquisite art and architecture. Explore world’s greatest art collections. Enter the Night Watch, at the Dutch national museum. toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain to ensure the ideas of power and patronage during the museum through world-renowned architect a return trip to the Eternal City. Renaissance, and discuss the social, political I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid, constructed in DAY 12 AMSTERDAM and artistic implications of the era. 1989. Inside, discover priceless antiquities Sightseeing tour of Amsterdam • A local DAY 4 ROME Accademia • Admire Michelangelo’s original from Asia, Greece and Rome. You’ll also see guide will show you the Westerkerk (West Sightseeing tour of Vatican City • On statue of David inside Florence’s acclaimed precious objects from the Middle Ages and Church), where Rembrandt is buried. Pass by your sightseeing tour, look for the papal Accademia Gallery. The museum also the Renaissance, as well as iconic European the fl ower markets—Amsterdam is known protectors who fl ank the entrance to St. houses the artist’s four famous unfi nished paintings such as the Mona Lisa. for its colorful tulips. See the Koninklijk Peter’s Basilica—they’re the highly trained statues, the Prisoners. Atelier visit* • See where working Parisian Paleis (Royal Palace), once the home of soldiers of the Vatican City’s Pontifi cal Swiss artists draw their inspiration on your visit to an the Dutch Royal Family, before continuing Guard. Inside, pass under gilded archways DAY 7 FLORENCE • NIGHT TRAIN atelier. You can fi nd everything from potters’ to Rembrandtplein, a bustling square that before visiting the saint’s tomb. Experience Uffi zi Gallery • See Boticelli’s famous Birth wheels to fashion mannequins to canvasses comes alive at night. Michelangelo’s breathtaking frescos at the of Venus painting up close. Study the details that stretch to the ceiling inside. Anne Frank House • Then, visit the Anne Sistine Chapel. of Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation in front of Frank House, where the young girl hid with Optional: Caravaggio Art Tour • the masterpiece. The Uffi zi is one of the oldest DAY 10 PARIS her family from 1942 to 1944. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio had a and most renowned museums in the world. Sightseeing tour of the Musée d’Orsay • formative infl uence on the Baroque school of Night train to Paris • Board an overnight Today, an expert guide will introduce you to DAY 13 DEPART FOR HOME painting, and this tour visits three churches train for your transfer to Paris. the Museé d’Orsay. Part of this museum’s *Subject to availability WEB EFCOLLEGESTUDYTOURS.COM/PROA PHONE 877.485.4184 WHAT OUR TRAVELERS SAY BARBARA L. ERIN H. CHELSEA S. VIRGINA M. Concordia University Itasca Community College Northern Oklahoma College Palo Alto College Portland, OR Grand Rapids, MN Stillwater, OK San Antonio, TX “The overall experience of the trip was “I had such an amazing time, and I “I can’t believe we had the opportunity “Every student should go. I enjoyed amazing, unforgettable. I went on the learned so much. We saw so many to see and do so many things for what flying to a foreign country, getting tour not knowing many of the students different sights. My experiences we paid. I traveled on my own soon completely out of my comfort zone and in my group, and came back with really enriched my understanding of another after my trip, and the flight alone cost truly seeing what this world has to of- good friends and amazing memories. culture, and created a realistic concept more than the entire tour—which fer. 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