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Day 1 Saturday |
Arrive in Vienna and transfer to your hotel. Rest up from your trip and join us for the welcome dinner with your guest host, Stephanie Cowell, and your Tour Manager. |
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Day 2 Sunday |
After a leisurely breakfast, we enjoy a guided sightseeing tour through Vienna, seeing the most important and historic sights including the Hofburg, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Parliament, Natural History Museum and of course Mozarthaus and his memorial grave site in St. Marx cemetery. After the tour, we enjoy a special dinner and then we are treated to a private concert at the Mozarthaus. The rest of the evening is yours to enjoy. |
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Day 3 Monday |
Today you can explore Vienna on your own. Enjoy walking around the city park, along the famous inner ring boulevard or visit the Cathedral; stop and enjoy Vienna's famous coffee houses culture. This evening we are transferred to the beautiful Musikverein to enjoy a concert performance by the Wiener Mozart Orchestra. |
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Day 4 Tuesday |
After breakfast today, we are taken for a short excursion into the Vienna Woods, traveling north of Vienna to Grinzing (famous heurigen village) and beyond. We stop for lunch at a picturesque village just beyond Grinzing with a panoramic vies of Vienna below. After some sightseeing, we arrive back at the hotel in time for dinner. Tonight, we have a concert to attend at the Hofburg. You'll be notified as to the meeting time in the hotel lobby for pick-up. |
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Day 5 Wednesday |
After exploring Vienna today on your own, you have the Schoenbrunn Palace dinner and concert this evening, preceded by a tour of the Palace. You may want to stop by and watch a Lipizzaner riding practice today at the Hofburg, visit the Hundertwasser Haus, or just enjoy more shopping. The day is your to enjoy. |
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Day 6 Thursday |
After breakfast we check out and travel to Salzburg by way of Linz this morning. You'll be in Salzburg for four nights, staying in center of the old town area near Mozart Square. After we arrive, there will be time to check into your room before we take off for a short guided city tour, part of it being a walking tour through the old town square area. The evening is yours to enjoy on your own. |
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Day 7 Friday |
Today you have the full day to enjoy on your own. There is a lot to explore in Salzburg. You'll no doubt be busy all day on your own. The Mozarteum Concert is this evening. We meet in the lobby for our transfer to the concert after dinner. |
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Day 8 Saturday |
This morning will be a special treat. You'll be picked up for the "Sound of Music" tour today which will take you through Salzburg and into the countryside. The enchanting Mozart Dinner Concert is scheduled for this evening. |
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Day 9 Sunday |
Mozart spent a good part of this early years in Munich. Today, we'll enjoy a day excursion to Munich to visit the places where Mozart lived, loved, composed and performed his music. The tour will include a lunch along the way plus a visit to the Nymphenburg Palace. We'll return to Salzburg this evening after really enjoying some typical Bavarian hospitality, including dinner. |
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Day 10 Monday |
Time to say farewell to Salzburg and Austria. We travel to Prague today to visit the "City of 100 Spires". The bus leaves early this morning and we'll stop along the way to visit Cesky Krumlov, the preserved medieval city protected by UNESCO. We'll also stop for a brief visit to see the old Baroque center of the city of Brno. On arrival in Prague, you'll check in for three nights. |
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Day 11 Tuesday |
A grand guided Prague city tour will follow breakfast this morning, with pick-up at the hotel. After the tour, you're welcome to explore on your own for a while. You may want to take a short narrated boat cruise on the Vltava through the heart of the city staying close by the Charles Bridge, or you may want to go back to visit the old Jewish Quarter. This evening we will be transferred to the Estates Theatre (where Mozart first debuted in Prague) for a performance of The Magic Flute. |
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Day 12 Wednesday |
You have a day to explore Prague on your own today. You may want to take one of the optional day excursions into the countryside to visit a glass factory (excellent opportunity to buy Czech glassware direct at the factory), or the UNESCO protected town of Kutna Hora. This evening you will be taken to the Beltramka for your last Mozart Concert of this tour. |
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Day 13 Thursday |
Check out this morning and transfer to the airport for your flight home with wonderful memories of the history, music, and culture of Mozart's life. | |
