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Trans World Travel has prepared a variety of tours to feature different aspects of Europe and the Reformation:
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Reformation Heritage
With Vienna and Prague
Our Reformation Heritage tour with Vienna & Prague combines the essential foundations of the Reformation with two of Europe's most beautiful and musical cities. Here is a sample 12-day itinerary:
Reformation Heritage with Vienna & Prague Itinerary
Day One: US Departure
Day Two: Vienna
Vienna - arrival and afternoon at leisure
Vienna - city with the splendour of a bygone era, when it was the heart of the mighty Habsburg Empire. For 150 years from Mozart to the 20th Century it was also home to the world's greatest composers.
Day Four: Vienna- Telc - Prague
Telc - typical of so many medieval Czech
towns with its single, massive square, the beautifully preserved facades
of its burghers’ houses and spectacular chateau.
Day Five: Prague
Prague - known as the Golden City, the city
of one hundred-towers and the Jerusalem of Europe, the Czech capital
is also justifiably considered to be one of the forerunners of the
Lutheran Reformation, where Jan Hus, Rector of the University preached
against the sale of indulgences one hundred years before Martin Luther.
Prague
Photo used with permission of Czech Tourism
Day Six: Prague - Dresden - Erfurt
Dresden - the city once called Florence
on the Elbe with its unique collection of artistic treasures, palaces
and museums.
Day Seven: Erfurt
Erfurt - Luther's university and the beginnings
of his monastic life.
Day Eight: Erfurt - Wartburg - Eisenach - Erfurt
Eisenach - where Luther attended school
and sang as a choirboy and birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose
music became a celebration of his Lutheran faith.
The Wartburg - Luther's hiding-place for 10 months following the Diet of Worms, where he translated the New Testament from the original Greek text into German.
Day Nine: Erfurt - Eisleben - Wittenberg
Eisleben - the town where Martin Luther
was born and, concidentally, also died. The houses associated with
both events now trace the origins of the Reformation through Luther's
own roots and heritage.
Day Ten: Wittenberg - Torgau - Wittenberg
Wittenberg - the city regarded as the
very cradle of the Reformation, where Luther lived and worked from
1508 to 1546 and where his action of nailing the 95 theses to the
door of the Castle Church in 1517 set in motion the movement which
would shake the Christian church to its foundations.
Luther Monument in Wittenberg
Photo used with permission of WittenbergKultur
e.V
Torgau - the ‘wet-nurse’ of the Reformation, it was here that the articles were drawn up, which later became the basis for the Augsburg Confession.
Day Eleven: Wittenberg - Berlin
Berlin - fascinating city reinstated as Germany’s
capital and seat of government after re-unification in 1990.
Day Twelve: Berlin - USA
Booking Your Luther Decade Tour
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If you have any questions about leading a group to the Luther Decade or about customizing a tour to suit the interests of your group, then we have prepared a page for group leaders.
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