European Union Program
Cultural Activities
The European Union Program’s cultural activities help students learn more about Europe and get better acquainted with Europeans. We tour Brussels to show students the wealth of architectural and historical treasures that the city has to offer. We visit and tour historic Belgian cities like Antwerp, Bastogne, Bruges, Ghent, Ieper, or Leuven.
Depending on the interest of the students, we can arrange for a program night at the opera or a classical concert. We can arrange visits of Belgium’s wealth of art museums. After all, Belgium was at the heart of the Northern Renaissance, and painters like Hans Memling, Hubert and Jan Van Eyck, Peter-Paul Rubens, Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Breughel, and many others lived and worked here. In the twentieth century, Belgian painters were among the leaders of the surrealist movement, with stars such as René Magritte and Paul Delvaux.
Belgium’s violent history has also bequeathed it with many historical monuments, and the program has visited sites like the battlefield of Waterloo, the Battle of the Bulge, and the former Nazi concentration camp at Fort Breendonk.
We’ve even visited the brewery museum to show the contribution of Belgium to other aspects of European culture.