All-School Field Trips
As a Syracuse Strasbourg student, you’ll have access to a variety of all-school field trips designed to help you explore France and its neighboring countries. Thanks to Strasbourg’s prime location at the crossroads of France, Germany, and Switzerland, these trips offer exciting opportunities to discover new places throughout the semester.
In past semesters, students have traveled to:
- Austria and the Alps: Bregenz & the Vorarlberg
- France: Alsace, Dijon, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, and Marseille
- Germany: Lake Constance, Freiburg, and Munich
- Netherlands: Amsterdam and The Hague
- Switzerland: Interlaken and Bern
In addition to these trips, a wide range of activities are on offer, from French cooking workshops and chocolate tastings to opera, spectator sports, daylong excursions, and weekend getaways.
Regional excursions will take you to medieval castles, historic fortifications along the France-Germany border, and charming villages nestled in the foothills of the Vosges or Black Forest mountains. Depending on the season, you might go hiking, snowshoeing, or enjoy traditional local dishes at a ferme auberge.
Each semester also features a tour to destinations further afield. You could find yourself summer tobogganing in the Alps (don’t know what that is? See here!) exploring Munich’s Residenz palace, or devouring a Bretzel the size of your head in a Bavarian beer garden. Some semesters, we venture to the South of France or to the breathtaking Swiss Alps. These trips balance cultural experiences with lots of free time for independent exploration.
Best of all, these all-school trips and excursions are included in your program fee, covering transportation, lodging, entrance tickets, and some meals.
Study Tours
Some courses also include specialized study tours. French History classes visit key sites from the two World Wars, while Art History students spend a weekend in Paris. Please note that there is a special course fee for these course-specific study tours. Study tours vary by semester.