In search of the most remarkable gothic cathedrals

This intense and thorough visit will make sure that you never look at the works of Rodin with the same eyes again.

Duration: two and a half hours

I'll take you on a discovery of seven of the most beautiful and unique (and sometimes hidden) passages.

Duration: two and a half hours

I'll take you see the tombs of famous people like Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Gertrude Stein (and Alice of course), Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernardt, Chopin, Corot, David, Delacroix, Ingres, Modigliani and many others...

Duration: two and a half hours

Tour operated by train (almost) every week.

This cathedral is decorated with 3500 sculptures and 26,000 sq ft of stained glass. I won't describe all but close! This tour is for those of you who are looking for a mind-boggling experience!

Duration: 9 hours

Customized tour only operated by car or minivan (with extra driver).

After a two and a half hours visit of the cathedral in the morning,

we can go back after lunch to the cathedral for a while

(it all depends on your thirst for knowledge) or go directly

to visit the Chateau de Maintenon. You decide!  

Duration: 9 to 10 hours

Customized tour only operated by car or minivan (with extra driver).

In depth Monet and Van Gogh in one day: does it get any better than this?

Visit the house & garden of Claude Monet in the morning

and Van Gogh's last haunt and burial place in the afternoon.  

Duration: 9 to 10 hours

Customized tour only operated by car or minivan (with extra driver).

Both beautiful palaces are a little bit far as half-day tours from Paris but, as they are only 14 miles away from each other, they work very well together on a full-day tour with a car.

Duration: 9 to 10 hours

Customized tour only operated by car or minivan (with extra driver).

Come with me for a day: I will explain to you the grape varieties, where they grow, the land, the soil, why Champagne is the most complex and difficult wine to create and why it has no equivalent

on this planet.

Duration: 10 hours

Customized tour only operated by car or minivan (with extra driver).

The Loire region is also world famous for its castles, some from the Middles-Ages (Amboise, Chinon...), most from the Renaissance (Chambord, Chenonceau, Villandry...).

Duration: 12 hours

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Who visits Paris and is not interested in visiting the world famous Notre-Dame cathedral?

No one that I can think of. And that urge has increased since the restoration after the 2019 fire.

But no matter how beautiful, unique and indispensable this cathedral is, what we visit today is a very heavily restored monument which brings back to life a monument as it had been re-invented in the middle of the 19th century by the famous architect Viollet-Le-Duc as part of the Neo-Gothic craze which followed the publication of Victor Hugo's bestseller: Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).