In Picardy, just 45 minutes from Paris, Compiègne gives you an authentic French experience, an opportunity to truly live like a local. With echoes of Louis XVI, Napoleon, and Joan of Arc, you get a true sense of French history as you walk from class to study group to town square café.
One of France’s most important historic towns, it can escort you through some of the country’s most fascinating moments in its churches, palaces, museums, and parks and entertain you at its racehorse track, castle golf course, waterpark, and seemingly endless forest walks when you have downtime with your classmates.