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KANDINSKY AT THE LaM IN VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ – Thursday 7th May 2026

The LaM, the contemporary art museum of Villeneuve d’Ascq, celebrates its reopening with a new retrospective dedicated to Wassily Kandinsky. Thanks to loans from the Centre Pompidou and
public and private institutions, the exhibition allows us to reconsider the importance of images in the work of one of the founders of abstraction. Photography, sketches, scientific publications and
biological imaging invite us to retrace the career of this visionary artist. The Hospice Comtesse de Lille presents, in the former dormitory of the nuns, an exceptional set of tapestries “Weaving the
world with Guillaume Wernier and Catherine Ghuys. A factory in Lille in the eighteenth century.”

Ref. 4004 – Price 155€/pers including coach, lunch, entrance fees and French guidance.

MINOAN AND BYZANTINE CRETE – From Sunday 17th to Saturday 23rd May 2026

This paradisiacal island shows fabulous testimonies of the various successive civilisations. We will be dazzled by the Minoan ruins of Knossos, the site of Phaistos or Malia on the edge of a sandy blond beach, by the master pieces of the archaeological museum of Heraklion. The ancient site of Gortyna will show a Doric city with its acropolis. The Byzantine period is shown in magnificent churches full of frescos and icons. The former port of Hania will charm us with its fortress, its Venetian palaces and its Ottoman minarets and mosque.

Ref. 3943 – Price 2.350€/pers including flights, coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and French guidance.

Consult the program =>  PROGRAM CRETE 2026

FROM COLOGNE TO HEIDELBERG with our guide-speaker Laurence Dehlinger – From Tuesday 16th to Sunday 21st June 2026

We will start our trip with a sensory walk in the museal garden of Insel Hombroich and a visit at the Landen Foundation before discovering the richness of the old town and of the Museums Wallraf-Richartz and Ludwig in Cologne. In Coblence, we will embark to discover the romantic Rhine to reach Bingen. Then we drive to Mannheim with its beautiful Art Deco Kunsthalle. On the left bank of the Rhine, we will visit the imperial cathedral of Speyer, built in the 11st century and being part of the UNESCO World Heritage and we will continue to Heidelberg and its impressive castle in the beautiful Neckar Valley. We return via Trier and its prestigious Porta Nigra.

Ref. 3944 – Price 2.245€/pers including coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and French guidance.

Consult the program => PROGRAM from COLOGNE to HEIDELBERG 2026

THE BIENNALE IN VENICE with our guide-speaker Minu Habibi Minelli – From Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th September 2026

The 2026 Venice Biennale will follow the vision of its curator, the Swiss-Camerounese Koyo Kouoh, who passed away far too soon. “In Minor Keys” invites the public to a sensory universe where
poetic movements and intimate worlds are countering the dominant noise of worldwide crises. The French-Moroccan Yto Barrada will be at the French pavilion exploring cultural facts, natural processes and historical narrations by emphasizing the idea of community. The performing Miet Warlop, residing in Brussels will represent our artists in the Belgian pavilion with a social and dancing sculpture and a flow of languages… An opportunity to also discover an unknown Venice through the pavilions located at the Arsenal and in the Giardini!

Ref. 3945 – Price from 2.375€/pers until 30th April (after price from 2.530€), flights, boat, half board accommodation, entrance fees and French guidance.

Consult the program => PROGRAM BIENNALE VENICE 2026

PERMEKE IN JABBEKE, THE Mu.ZEE IN OSTEND – Thursday 1st October 2026

The Permeke Museum, located in the very nice modernist house which was the artist’s home in the very green landscape of The Polders, is now reopened and we can discover the artist painting studio which witnesses his numerous researches, the garden with two of his master pieces as well as the large sculpture studio which links the artist with his contemporary fellows.  The Mu.ZEE in Ostend which exhibits a wide range of Belgian Art from 1830 till now, including works from James Ensor, Léon Spilliaert, Constant Permeke, Jean Brusselmans, Willy Finch, Luc Tuymans, Roger Raveel as well as Paul Delvaux, is moving to the Venetian galleries close to the Therms during its renovation.

Ref. 4005 – 145€/pers, coach, lunch, entrance fees and French guidance.

CELTIC AND MYSTIC GALICIA – From Thursday 15th October to Tuesday 20th October

Located in the Northeast part of Spain, this earth full of legends mixes the Celtic, Roman and Swabian heritages between vertiginous cliffs and green valleys. The splendid coastal road of Cap Fistera will show us fishermen’s villages, where granite storehouses on piles are topped by crosses with pagan symbols. The Saint Jacques of Compostelle cathedral welcomes the pilgrims since the 10th century in the most remarkable roman sanctuary of the Christendom. On the Obradoiro square, a huge Baroque frontage is competing with the beautiful portal of the Palace of the Catholic Kings. The charming city of Orense offers a rich archaeological museum in its Episcopal palace. Not far away, monasteries and hermitages are hooked on the slopes of the Ribieras Sacras, the spectacular Sil Gorge.

Ref. 3946 – Price from 2.495€/pers until 15th April (after price from 2.645€), flights, coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and French guidance.

Consult the program => PROGRAM GALICE 2026

JENNY MONTIGNY IN GHENT – Thursday 12th November 2026

The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent honours the local artist Jenny Montigny. Being the favourite apprentice of Emile Claus, the artist characterizes herself through her access to the open-air life as well as the rural life along the river Lys, her fascination for the interiors and the portraits as well as the sensible representation of the maternity and childhood. Along the river, we will reach the Gevaert-Minne museum house showing the numerous artists which were residing in the village of Laethem- Saint- Martin. The first group around 1900 with Valerius De Saedeleer, George Minne, Gustave van de Woestyne, Albert Servaes, was more or less part of the symbolism while the second group, including Gustave De Smet, Constant Permeke, Frits Vanden
Berghe, is leading more to the expressionism.

Ref. 4006 – Price to be defined, coach, lunch, entrance fees and French guidance.

MARIA LASSNIG AND EDVARD MUNCH IN ZURICH, ROY LICHTENSTEIN AND RUTH ASAWA IN BASEL – From Thursday 26th to Sunday 29th November 2026

In Zurich, the Kunsthaus welcomes at the same time the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig and the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch to demonstrate that for both of them the painting was not only
a medium for creation but above all a strong plan to express the interiority. The pop artist Roy Lichtenstein will be the highlight at the Kunstmuseum in Basel while the Beyeler Foundation will be
showing the first retrospective in Europe dedicated to Ruth Asawa who masterly cancels the borders between abstraction and figuration, art and craftsmen. In the romantic landscape of the Baden Baden park, the Frieder Burda museum proves the pictural strength of Simon Hantaï which celebrates here a sensual and vibrant festival of colours. The Centre Pompidou in Metz will be a fantastic stop with a retrospective of Séraphine de Senlis whose organic artworks through their fantastic dimensions will retain our attention.

Ref. 4007 – Price from 1.695€/pers until 15th August (after from 1.795€), coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and French guidance.

Consult the program => PROGRAMME SUISSE 2026

CHAGALL IN MONS – Thursday 10 December 2026

The CAP in Mons presents, through previously unseen works, the diverse talents of Marc Chagall: a great painter, but also a sculptor and a craftsman of genius who forged a creative partnership with master tapestry makers, ceramists, stonemasons and master glassmakers. Opposite the Collegiate Church of Sainte-Waudru, we shall discover the François Duesberg Museum, an exceptional museum of decorative arts, humanistic and educational in nature, housing a prestigious collection of clocks, majestic French gilded bronzes, superb porcelain, sumptuous silverware and rare jewellery.

Ref. 4050 – Price to be defined, coach, lunch, entrance fees and French guidance.

Please note : dates and destinations for the 2026 trips are subject to change.

For the travels and excursions, please contact Virginie Descamps

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