Day 1 – Arrival Day
Pick-up at the airport and transfer to your hotel by your personal
guide. Check-in, relax and your guide will recommend and take
you to a dinner place of your interest.
Day 2 – Frankfurt Day
Guided city tour of Frankfurt am Main |View on the city from a skyscraper| Visit to the Goethe Museum
This city walk through the old town centre focuses on Frankfurt
history, incl. its role as an electoral site for German-Roman kings
and host city for the coronation ceremonies of Holy Roman
emperors. Frankfurt's tradition as a free trade city and its role in
the first German National Assembly held here in 1848 are also highlighted.
Interior viewing:
Historical Museum (models of the old town centre)
Kaisersaal (emperors's hall, if accessible)
St. Paul's Church and Kaiserdom (Cathedral)
The Frankfurt Goethe House, birthplace of Germany´s most
famous author and poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was built
in the typical 18th-century bourgeois style. It is decorated with
period furniture and paintings, providing an authentic and striking
impression of the environment in which Goethe spent his youth.
The Goethe Museum, a gallery of paintings from the Goethe era,
elucidates Goethe´s relationship to the art and artists of his epoch.
Day 3 – Shopping and Porcelain Day
Stroll of the city with many possibilities for shopping| Guided tour at the porcelain manufactory
The porcelain has been manufactured for more than 260 years.
Founded in 1746 with a manufacturer's privilege, the manufactury
is the second oldest porcelain manufactory in Germany.
Connoisseurs world-wide consider it among the crowning
achievements in European porcelain art.
Today you can discover first hand how the artists work to create
such beautiful porcelain. In the "Transparent Manufactory" you
have the unique opportunity to experience the entire arts and
crafts process live and up close.
The Porcelain Manufacturing Facility is located in a restored,
historically protected factory building built in 1906. You can
experience the arts and crafts process of the manufactory in a very
unique way, "first hand". You are able to watch the entire
manufacturing process, from the preparation of the porcelain
mass, to the modelling of figures and the intricate hand painting.
You can purchase one of the exclusive pieces in the manufactory
outlet after the guided tour.
Day 4 – Boat Tour and Aschaffenburg Day Scenic boat tour to Aschaffenburg and guided city tour| Limousine transfer back to Frankfurt
Aschaffenburg is considered to be the city of castles, parks and
museums. It connects the dynamic and international Metropolitan
region of Frankfurt-Rhein-Main with the Spessart national park.
This 1000-year-old city has also become the focal point of the
Bavarian Untermain, which King Ludwig I was extremely fond of
and used to call his "Bavarian Nice".
Day 5 – Rheingau and Wine Tasting Day guided city tour in the city of wine and roses| Wine Tasting Tour in a historic and famous monastery
"The city of the wine and the roses" is a very historical place and
its gently restored old- town quarter is and oasis of peace for wine
friends and historians. The rose garden around the fortress fills
with enthusiasm romantic people from all around the world
specially during the 'rose days " in the month of May. Worth to be
seen are the magnificient noble and aristocratic villas on the river
promenade all surrounded by roses.
The Rheingau has gained worldwide renown as one of Germany's
most beautyful winegrowing regions. The Rheingau is also called
the "German Riviera", due to its mild climate throughout the year
and its proximity to the Rhine river. The unique weather conditions,
the steep hills protected by the Taunus mountain chain and
located on the Rhine river, the slate and sandloose soils give the
ideal carachteristics to noble Riesling vines and racy red wines.
The Strolling Wine Tasting Tour offers the optimum way to learn
about and experience the art of winegrowing and wine making,
which have been a tradition since the time of the Cistercians.
Following in the footsteps of the monks you will "stroll" through the
Monastery.
The atmospheric Hospital, the historical "Cabinetkeller", the
elegant, High Gothic Chapter Hall, the expressive, cross-vaulted Dormitory, the festive, Baroque Refectory and the monumental,
Romanesque Monastery Church are the stations on your tour.
Zealous hands will serve you six selected wines during your stroll
through the Monastery. Wines, which have been specially selected
to match the architectural impression conveyed by each room. At
the same time, you will learn more and more about the monastic
life of earlier centuries.
Length: between 1.5 und 2.0 hours
Day 6 – Heidelberg Day- Heidelberg guided city tour
The beauty of Heidelberg's historical old town and castle inspired
painters and poets of the Romatic age to greater achievement
some 200 years ago. Walk around the romantic old town centre,
inside viewings of the castle courtyard, the Heidelberg Wine Barrel
and the student's detention cell.
Length: about 7 hours
Day 7 – Departure Day
Airport transfer and departure back to your country
Your tour starts and ends in Frankfurt am Main.
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