10 or 13 days GERMANY, ITALY & SWITZERLAND Grand Canal Grand
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DAY 5: DAY monarchs to the majesty of the Black Forest. majesty of the Black the monarchs to INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS INTERNATIONAL Dachau
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Neuschwanstein Castle Neuschwanstein Frauenkirche
Travel from the palatial residences of Bavarian residences the palatial from Travel about an EF College Study Tour, and it’s different for every traveler. Once you’ve traveled with us, you’ll know exactly what i Tour, and it’s different for every traveler. Once you’ve about an EF College Study Through it all, you’ll return home prepared for whatever path lies ahead of you. Beyond photos and stories, new perspectives an and stories, new perspectives ahead of you. Beyond photos for whatever path lies you’ll return home prepared Through it all, be an inscription you read on the walls to carry with you for the rest of your life. It could confidence, you’ll have something world. The fact is, there’s just something transfor you shared with another student from around the monument, or perhaps a joke Discover cosmopolitan Munich and take a solemn look at Dachau before you glide across the Grand Canal in Venice. Stunning vista Grand Canal in Venice. before you glide across the a solemn look at Dachau Munich and take Discover cosmopolitan ruins. Castle’s stately with an exploration of Heidelberg you round out your trip beckon in Switzerland before Alpine Europe DAY 4: DAY
ABOUT THIS TOUR 2: DAY FACULTY-LED FACULTY-LED GERMANY, ITALY & SWITZERLAND 10 or 13 days
INCLUDED ON TOUR: OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS: Neuschwanstein Round-trip airfare Castle • Mount Pilatus • Swiss Folklore Event Land transportation Optional excursions let you incorporate additional Hotel accommodations sites and attractions into your itinerary and make the Light breakfast daily and select meals most of your time abroad. Full-time tour director Sightseeing tours and visits to special attractions Free time to study and explore EXTENSION: France (3 days) Extend your tour and enjoy extra time exploring your FOR MORE INFORMATION: destination or seeing a new place at a great value. efcollegestudytours.com/GISA
DAY 8: Löwendenkmal DAY 9: Black Forest DAY 9: Heidelberg Castle DAY 10: Strasbourg
DAY 1 FLY TO GERMANY designer. Those who do not join this excursion You’ll see the moving Lion Monument known 3-DAY TOUR EXTENSION Meet your group and travel on an overnight will enjoy additional free time in Munich. as Löwendenkmal, a sandstone statue DAY 10 STRASBOURG • PARIS fl ight to Munich. commemorating the Swiss Guards slain in the Sightseeing tour of Strasbourg • Travel DAY 5 VENICE 1792 Paris storming of the Tuileries. Follow to Strasbourg, capital of the disputed Alsace DAY 2 MUNICH Travel to Venice • On your way to the Lucerne’s winding cobbled streets past fairy- region and home to colorful waterfront Arrive in Munich • Welcome to Munich! Floating City, travel through Innsbruck, the tale houses to the Chapel Bridge. Stroll along façades and stately squares. See the Gothic Depending on your arrival time, you may capital of the beautiful Austrian province of this covered bridge and admire the detailed cathedral, whose spire stands as a proud have free time to settle in and explore on Tyrol and the intersection of several Alpine murals overhead. symbol of Alsatian independence. Learn about your own. passes. When you arrive in Venice, enjoy an Optional: Mount Pilatus • Ride up the peaks Strasbourg’s role as host to the European Explore Munich • Stroll through the heart Italian pasta dinner before turning in for of Mount Pilatus. There, you’ll be rewarded Parliament, the Council of Europe and the of Munich, the intersection of medieval trade the night. with panoramic views of the city below. Those European Commission for the Rights of Man. routes. In Marienplatz, see the neo-Gothic who do not join the excursion will have free Then, travel by train to the City of Light. Neues Rathaus (literally, “New Town Hall”) DAY 6 VENICE time in Lucerne. with its famous Glockenspiel. Continue past Sightseeing tour of Venice • Today, see Optional: Swiss Folklore Event • Enjoy DAYS 11-12 PARIS • VERSAILLES the cathedral known as Frauenkirche and gondolas glide down the Grand Canal before a fondue dinner and watch a special Sightseeing tour of Paris • Ride down the the famous Hofbräuhaus, once the royal stopping in St. Mark’s Square. Look for presentation, complete with yodeling. Those Champs-Élysées, an elegant boulevard brewery of the Kingdom of Bavaria. the golden weathervane, which resembles who do not join the excursion will have free packed with high-fashion boutiques. Pass Bavarian dinner • This evening, get an archangel Gabriel, atop the 323-foot time in Lucerne. (Please note: This optional is the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de authentic taste of Germany when you enjoy a Campanile (“Bell Tower”). Attend a glass- available March-September.) Triomphe. Your guide shares insight into traditional dinner at a Bavarian bräuhaus. blowing demonstration and watch expert French military history when you continue craftsmen spin molten-hot wares. DAY 9 HEIDELBERG past Les Invalides. DAY 3 MUNICH Doge’s Palace • At the pink-and-white Travel to Heidelberg • Travel through the Versailles • At this lavish estate, explore Sightseeing tour of Munich • Your Doge’s Palace, see where mighty Venetian legendary Black Forest, once the province the State Apartments, the magnifi cent Hall of sightseeing tour will take you past the dukes once ruled. Stroll over the Bridge of of wolves, hermits and mad monks. On your Mirrors, the landscaped gardens and ornate Olympic Stadium, Marienplatz, the Sighs, which links the palace to a prison. As way, behold the thundering Rhine Falls. fountains. Louis XIV hosted his royal court fashionable Schwabing district and the they crossed the bridge, prisoners supposedly Sightseeing tour of Heidelberg • Set in here to rein in their power and prevent their Residenz, former home of the Wittelsbach sighed with perfect sadness as they regarded the foothills of the Neckar Valley, Heidelberg political rise. dukes of Bavaria. their beautiful city for the last time. boasts beautiful medieval streets lined Louvre • Enter by I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid, Dachau • Take time to refl ect at Dachau, a with peaked red roofs. See the majestic and discover the antiquities that await inside. WWII Nazi concentration camp built in 1935. DAY 7 SWISS ALPS Old Bridge, which crosses into the center Here you can get an up-close look at da In 1945, the Allies liberated the camp. Today, Travel to Lucerne • Travel through Verona, of town. Many philosophers studied here, Vinci’s Mona Lisa and her beguiling smile. Dachau serves as a memorial museum. immortalized by Shakespeare’s Romeo and making Heidelberg Germany’s premier Explore Paris • Take a walking tour of Juliet. Here, see a bronze statue of the tragic university city. the Latin Quarter, so named because the DAY 4 MUNICH heroine, standing below the balcony where Heidelberg Castle wine barrel • Ride a language was once commonly spoken by the Free time in Munich • In Munich, enjoy free she sighed over her Romeo. Later, arrive in funicular up to Heidelberg Castle, and see Sorbonne students that populated the area. time to explore on your own or simply relax. the Swiss Alps. the stunning views that inspired the poet Notre Dame Cathedral • Admire Notre Optional: Neuschwanstein Castle • Join Goethe. Stand beside the enormous wine Dame’s sculptured façade, stained-glass rose a trip to this Bavarian wonder. The castle DAY 8 SWISS ALPS barrel—it’s so large that a dance fl oor was windows and seemingly weightless vaulted may look familiar—it’s the inspiration for Sightseeing tour of Lucerne • The majestic once built on top of it for visitors’ amusement! ceilings. On your last evening in Paris, enjoy Disneyland’s iconic Sleeping Beauty Castle. Alps rise behind the shores of Lake Lucerne dinner in the Latin Quarter. Commissioned by “Mad” King Ludwig, the and provide the stunning backdrop to one DAY 10 DEPART FOR HOME original plans were drawn up by a theater set of Switzerland’s most picturesque cities. DAY 13 DEPART FOR HOME
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