The iPilot Flight Simulator Experience at Munich Airport lets you “pilot” a Boeing 737 Next Generation with a fight instructor, choosing from 500 routes (such as flying over Hong Kong or from Munich to Innsbruck over the Alps).

A simulation flight costs €69 (near $96), half hour, or €129 ($178), one hour. Open 10 to 9 daily on the arrival level of Terminal 2. For reservations, phone 089 97583700 or 0162 8477738 or visit www.flyipilot.de.

2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. Through November, special events are planned in Turin (the country’s first capital) at the Officine Grandi Riparazioni, a complex of workshops, and La Venaria Reale, a royal palace.

Among the offerings are exhibitions on 150 years of Italian fashion and the history of Italy since its unification.

And once a month until November, Royal Dinners will be held in the Great Gallery of the Reggia di Venaria, each featuring...

In honor of the 800th anniversary of Reims Cathedral in Reims, northeastern France, special services, concerts and exhibitions are being held May 6-Oct. 23, 2011.

A free light show, “Dream of Color,” projects lights onto the cathedral’s façade, highlighting details of statues and showing colors once visible. A 20-minute loop runs on selected evenings: in June, Thurs.-Sun. at 11 p.m.; July, Tues.-Sun., 11; August, Tues.-Sun., 10; September, Thurs.-Sun., 9, and October, Fri.-Sun., 8:30...