 In 1945 Montessori attended the first All India Montessori Conference in Jaipur, and in 1946, with the war over, she and her family returned to Europe.In 1946, at the age of 76, Montessori returned to Amsterdam, and she spent the next six years travelling in Europe and India.She gave a training course in London in 1946, and in 1947 opened a training institute there, the Montessori Centre.