Paris: Cultural Excursions
Because Paris is an architectually visual city, to walk its streets is to absorb its soul. On mid-week excursions, Sojourners frequent the Louvre, Orsay, and Pompidou. But sojourning in Paris provides time to go beyond these.. to the Carnavalet, the new Quai Branly, the refurbished Musee des Arts Décoratifs, and to the Rodin and Picasso.....
Venturing beyond Paris proper, sojourners explore: Rheims and Rouen, Strassbourg and Burgundy, Bayeux and the Norman coast, Brittany; Mont St Michel and Chartres.
Sobering visits to the Normandy battlefields and to Verdun, where in March of 1917 800,000 lives were lost, help sojourners understand one reason for the European Union and reinforce the Sojourns Abroad focus on global citizenship.