National Trust for Historic Preservation - Grand Tour
Chapter II - ROYAL PALACES & GRAND CASTLES: Paris & the Loire Valley
With Guest Lecturer Olivier Bernier.
Tour Costs: $7,390.00 per person double occupancy; $1,720.00 single supplement
- Excursion to Paris’s countryside - Ile de France - visiting private castles, including Chateau de Villebon, home of the Raudiere family, and for lunch with the owner of Chateau de Memillon
- Visits to the small, little-known museums of Paris full of masterpieces, as well as the new galleries of the Grand Louvre
- Visit the royal residence at Compiegne and the beautiful palace at Chantilly
- Private candlit tour of the magnificent grounds and interior of Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte, and dinner with the owners, Count and Countess de Vogue
- Dinner at the Paris home of Prince and Princess de Broglie
- The magnificent stained glass at Chartres Cathedral
- Visits and meals at private chateaux in the beautiful Loire Valley
- Accommodations and gourmet meals at the elegant and newly-restored Plaza Athenee and the 15th-century Domaine de Beauvois, a Relais & Chateaux hotel
For more information or a detailed itinerary with reservation form, please contact Protravel International, 1-800-227-1059, ext. 455, (212) 409-9555.
