See more of Europe with the Luther500 Post-Festival Trips!
Once you are in Germany would you like to add some more travels? Great! You can just set up a trip on your own, ask one of our partner tour operators to arrange a trip for your group, or join one of the Luther500 post-festival trips. These Trips extend your Festival experience as you travel from Wittenberg to different parts of Germany and Europe.
All Post festival Trips can be easily booked with your Festival registration after May 1, 2012. Each trip will be conducted if at least 30 people register - unlimited!
1.
Jewish History and Holocaust:
Nuremberg, Prague, and Dresden
This educational trip focuses on the darkest part of German history: The Holocaust. You will see some of the Nazi structures in Nuremberg, explore Prague (Czech Republic), visit a Nazi concentration camp memorial, and see how a war-destroyed city like Dresden came back to new life.
06/23 - Sunday, after the Festival closing worship service: Board the bus and travel to Nuremberg for a dinner and good hotel sleep.
06/24 - Monday: This morning you jump into history with an educational workshop at the Nazi Party Rally site in Nuremberg. In the afternoon the trip continues to Prague (Czech Republic).
06/25 - Tuesday: The “Golden City of Prague” has so many great sites to see that it’s almost impossible to do it in one day. Your morning tour with a local guide focuses on the Castle district and the old town including the Market with the Astronomical clock. In the afternoon you’ll get introduced to the former Jewish life in Prague in the 30’s and 40’s before WWII. After all it’s time for a relaxing dinner on a steamer boat at the Vlatava River.
06/26 - Wednesday: On our way to Germany we visit Terezin / Theresienstadt getto and concentration camp. This is one of the places where German “National Socialists” (Nazis) imprisoned everybody who did not fit their ideology, first of all jewish people, but also homosexuals, communists, and others. After this moving visit we continue to Dresden.
06/27 - Thursday: Dresden, called the “Florence of the North”, welcomes you with its magificent churches, palaces, and museums. On a guided tour you’ll see the Semper Opera, Zwinger museum, the new restored Schloss palace. And most important the Frauenkirche, a hugh neo-baroque church reconstructed out of the rubble after it was destroyed in WWII.
The afternoon takes us to Berlin for a farewell dinner.
06/28 - Friday: Shuttle to the airport and homebound flight from Berlin.
Trip includes:
- Travel in a modern motor coach
- English speaking tour director
- Nights in good 3- 4 star hotels
- Breakfast and Dinner every day
- Admission fees and tours with (local) guides
Price per person, additional to Festival arrangement:
660 Euro in double occupancy
780 Euro in single occupancy
2.
Follow the route of your ancestors:
Elbe Hanse trails and German Heritage
Did your grandmother speak German? 5.5 million Germans left their home between 1815 and 1914 to find a better life somewhere else in the world. North America, Australia, Argentina, South Africa and many other countries saw German immigrants which often had a big influence into the development of the new settlements. This post Festival trip follows the Elbe river to one of the sea ports from where the Germans left to a new life.
06/23 - Sunday: After the Festival closing service your post festival trip starts with a first leg to Magdeburg. Time for dinner and a good hotel sleep.
06/24 - Monday: In Magdeburg we first have to visit the Dom Cathedral, with more than 800 years the oldest Gothic church in Germany and burial site of the first German king Otto. We follow the Elbe to nice little towns like Tangermuende, Havelberg, and Wittenberge (with “-e”) and hear something about old trade routes and the life in the old times.
06/25 - Tuesday: Lueneburg, an old Hanse merchants town, is worth a visit, before we head to Hamburg. A boat takes us on a trip through this biggest sea port in Germany. In the evening we enjoy a cultural program in one of the Musical theatres.
06/26 - Wednesday: For many emigrants “Ballinstadt” (www.ballinstadt.com) was the last they saw before getting on the boats to the New World. We spend the day with some educational workshops, following the German families in their dreams.The day ends with a good farewell dinner.
06/27 - Thursday: Shuttle to the airport and homebound flight from Hamburg.
Trip includes:
- Travel in a modern motor coach
- English speaking tour director
- Nights in good 3- 4 star hotels
- Breakfast and Dinner every day
- Admission fees and tours with (local) guides
Price per person, additional to Festival arrangement:
570 Euro in double occupancy
660 Euro in single occupancy
3.
Bavarian Germany
Yes, well,some people think Germany is “Bavaria”. After the Festival you know better - however: you might just want to follow the tourist path (and a little bit Martin Luther).
06/23 - Sunday: Your bus leaves Wittenberg for a first drive to Nuremberg. Dinner and a good hotel sleep.
06/24 - Monday: Nuremberg, home of many German toy companies and of the Lebkuchen Christmas cake, is the place for a first sightseeing walk in the morning. Later we drive to Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a good example how a walled town looked like in Martin Luther’s time. We follow the night guard on his walk between the timberframed houses.
06/25 - Tuesday: We follow the “Romantic Road” to Augsburg. This town is home of the Fugger family, who’s bank gave the loan to the catholic church which lead to the system of selling indulgences which made a monk in Wittenberg become a rebel (to make the historical story short). The Fuggers also built the first social housing quarter, and Augsburg is the town where the Imperial Diet took place which heard the Augsburg Confession from the Lutherans.
06/26 - Wednesday: It has been hard for the German Festival team to add this item to the plan, but, yes, okay: We visit Neuschwanstein. Neuschwanstein castle is in no way important for German history, architecture, or culture, and being at the Wartburg you’ve seen the original Festival hall. Anyway: King Ludwig’s fairytale castle is the most photographed sight in Germany, and travelling in that area we can’t miss it. Overnight in a Bavarian village in the Oberammergau area.
06/27 - Thursday: We are heading to Munich, the capital city of Bavaria, for sightseeing and some fancy shopping. Farewell Dinner will be in a typical Bavarian Beergarden restaurant.
06/28 - Friday: Time to leave: Shuttle to the airport and homebound flight from Munich.
Trip includes:
- Travel in a modern motor coach
- English speaking tour director
- Nights in good 3- 4 star hotels
- Breakfast and Dinner every day
- Admission fees and tours with (local) guides
Price per person, additional to Festival arrangement:
695 Euro in double occupancy
850 Euro in single occupancy
Register for Post Festival Trips with your Festival registration after May 1, 2012!
… and if you like to do something different with your group like visiting Paris? Rome? Or the Taizé community: our partner tour operators will be happy to arrange a trip customized for your group.
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