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2008 Summer
Seminar: A Week in Bavaria
TIME:
August 10, 2008 7:00 PM
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
2008 Summer Seminar
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A summer trip like no other! Spend a week on an island in the largest lake in Bavaria, Chiemsee -- at the foot of the majestic Alps. Attend daily mass in a convent founded in 744, predating Charlemagne himself! Walk in wonder through one of King Ludwig’s most majestic castles. Enjoy a day’s excursion to Salzburg with visits to Mozart’s birthplace, the Cathedral and the Prince Archbishop’s fortress looming over the town. Relish a concert with the vibrant, uplifting music of Haydn and Mozart.
Since 1989 the IIC has organized summer seminars on faith and culture in the Bavarian university town of Eichstätt. This summer we are changing locations. Rather than heading north of Munich toward Franconia, we head south toward the Alps to one of the most enchanting areas in all of Europe. Chiemsee has two islands, the Ladies’ Isle with a women’s convent and the Lords’ Isle, site of a former men’s monastery, now the site of one of King Ludwig’s magnificent castles.
The intellectual core of the program will be an in-depth study of Pope Benedict’s Regensburg Address of 2006 which incited the ire of many in the Muslim world. Yet the lecture at the University of Regensburg dealt with what the Pope saw as perhaps the greatest threat to the Faith in our day – the attempt to “de-hellenize” Christianity, that is, remove the essential role of reason.
Daily mass will be celebrated in the convent church, and lectures and discussions on the Regensburg Address will take place in the mornings.
Cost: $1,750
A Trip to the South Tyrolean Alps
About two hours from Chiemsee is the most spectacular spot I have ever seen in the Alps (at least that one can reasonably hope to get to!) There is a hotel in the largest meadow in the Alps in the middle of national park. It is surrounded by magnificent peaks and provides breathtaking strolls for those who would take a more leisurely vacation. But it also provides some of the most grueling mountain climbing for the more adventuresome – to stone lodges with only cold water for hikers and mountain climbers but with the best food under heaven. The hotel sits at the end of a small winding road. A ski lift will take you to a peak above the hotel where one can catch a gondola down to St. Ulrich, the center of religious wood carving in all of Europe. The town is quaint and colorful, the surrounding peaks unparalleled and the shopping as fine as anything in Milan or Rome.
The area is known as the Grödnertal in German or the Val Gardena in Italian. The program will include provide a wide range of activities from the more sedate to the most spectacular. There will be visits to castles and wood carvers shops, hikes of easy, moderate or difficult demands, rides in horse drawn wagons, ski lifts and gondola rides and daily mass and live conversations with the participants.
For those attending the Chiemsee program this additional week will be only $1200 which will include the transportation to the Grödnertal. The cost for those who choose only this Alpine program will be $1,850 with transportation provided from the Munich International Airport.
View the planned itinerary
If you have an interest in either or both of these programs, contact me immediately at:
drhaasbavaria@aol.com
Or call 215-877-9910
COST
Bavaria only: $1750 /each
South Tyrolean Alps only: $1850/each
Both programs (Save $600): $2950/each
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