Welcome

Since our founding in 1982, Plantagenet Tours has organized historical and cultural tours for North Americans to a number of European countries such as England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Belgium. We welcome you to join us on one of our fascinating journeys to Europe.

The following quotation from the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur describes what we try to achieve: "The scientistic illusion and the retreat of the sacred into its own particular phantoms together belong to the forgetfulness of our roots…"Can we live without some originary orientation? Is it simply a residual phenomenon, or an existential protest arising out of the depth of our being, that sends us in search of privileged places, be they our birthplace, the scene of our first love, or the theater of some important historical occurrence -- a battle, a revolution, the execution ground of patriots? We return to such places because there a more than everyday reality erupted and because the memory attached to what took place there preserves us from being simply errant vagrants in the world. Can the act of construction and of habitation be entirely desacralized without losing all significance? Can we abolish the symbolism of the threshold, the door, and the entrance, along with every ritual of entrance and of welcome?"