Neighborhood Walks We begin our trip with several walks around Berlin that will highlight World War II history, the Holocaust of the Jewish culture in Berlin, the Soviet occupation and Berlin’s rebirth as the center of modern Germany.
City of Barcelona Museum The MUHBA includes an archaeological site that traverses the history of the city from Roman to Gothic streets. This visit to the museum introduces the city center and historic sites as well as navigating the city on your own through public transportation.
Neighborhood Walk We willl walk through the Pedralbes area around our program housing to help you get your bearings for landmarks, local restaurants, grocery stores, shops and so on.
National Museum of Catalan Art The MNAC is a signature museum with a collection of Catalan art from Romanesque to 19th century. It is situated on Montjuic, the Mount of Joy, overlooking the city.
Classical Spanish Guitar Concert We will attend a candle lit classical guitar concert in the 14th century gothic chapter house of the church of Santa Ana.
This excursion will take us to Innsbruck, the “Capital of the Alps,” where we’ll spend part of our day visiting the old city, its spectacular Baroque cathedral, and the iconic Golden Roof building and museum. In this picturesque valley surrounded by the Alps, we’ll learn more about the history of the Habsburgs, Austria’s hereditary rulers…
We’ll spend the first part of our day traveling to Munich’s suburb of Dachau, where we will tour the Concentration Camp Memorial. Our excursion will end back at the Munich Main Train Station, where you’ll begin your weekend of free travel time. (You’re encouraged to stay and enjoy Munich, but you can use your Eurail…
We visit the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires and receive a country briefing led by a current U.S. Foreign Service Officer (FSO) to learn about historical and contemporary economic and political conditions in Argentina and the current relationship between our two countries.
During El Proceso, the 1976-83 Dictatorship, human rights groups estimate that more than 100,000 people were tortured and more than 30,000 people “disappeared.” On this excursion, we visit and walk through one of the central sites where many people were held, tortured, and murdered.
La Casa Rosada (The Pink House) is the Presidential Palace for Argentina. We’ll walk through the halls listening to a guided tour in English and visit the balcony immortalized in the movie/musical Evita, the site where First Lady Eva Peron spoke to los descamisados (impoverished workers) in her famous 1951 speech.