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Tour #13: "Goethe's Journey" from Weimar via the Thuringian Forest to Meiningen
offered by supplier M18372 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 5
day(s)
Group Size: 2
- 8
people
Destination(s):
Germany
Specialty Categories:
Cultural Journey
Garden Tours
Season: July - August
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 1550 Euro (EUR)
Maximum Per Person Price: 1650 Euro (EUR)
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A mail coachman in historic livery drives an original four- or five-in-hand coach. The coach offers 8-9 seats. From Weimar the tour runs to the moat house of Gross-Kochberg and to Ilmenau, onto on the top of the Thuringian Forest and via the medieval town of Schleusingen to Meiningen, the city of the theaters. Five days pure romanticism! By the way: you will be surprised by the comfort and how easy this original coach out of 1860 rides!
Available Dates:
* Weimar - Meiningen:
15 Jul - 21 Jul 2009
11 Aug - 18 Aug 2009
24 Aug - 01 Sep 2009
* Meiningen - Weimar:
21 Jul - 26 Jul 2009
18 Aug - 24 Aug 2009
01 Sep - 06 Sep 2009
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Weimar. Individual arrival. Overnight: 5* hotel "Elephant". Things to see: Goethe's house, Schiller's house, the Wittums palace, German National Theater. On request: guided tour through Weimar, dinner in the "Elephant cellars".
Day 2: Gross-Kochberg. Overnight in a simple pension inside the moat house. Things to see: the moat house, former home of Charlotte von Stein, the elder mentor of the young Goethe, amateur theater. On request: chamber concert.
Day 3: Gross-Liebringen. Overnight 3* hotel. Through small country villages which duck into the valleys we arriave at the castle hotel "Edelhof" in Gross-Liebringen and spend the night in historic surrounding.
Day 4: Ilmenau - Gabelbach. Overnight 4* hotel. We visit a small family brewery which as an independent company had survived the whole East German Democratic Republic. A very good beer, brewed every Thursday, just for the consumers around the place, we drink under the huge old trees and eat the best Thuringian sausage ever. In den evening in the hotel "Gabelbach" we can visit Goethe's hunting lodge, close to the hotel, and we can enjoy the wellness opportunities in this wonderful place.
Day 5: Schleusingen. Hotel "Goldener Loewe". Along the "Rennsteig", the former (nearly ex territorial) track of the various couriers between the kingdoms, dukedom, principalities in Central Europe we arrive at the "Stutenhof", a former mountain pasture for horses, now a coy inn with terrific views over the wooded hills of the Thuringian forest. In Schleusingen we find the huge Bertholöd's castles, now a museum of natural sciences, the Henneberg Highschool, the oldest high school in Germany still in service. The 3* hotel "Goldener Loewe" will host us for the night.
Day 6: Meiningen. 4* hotel Sachsenhof. Along small rivers we come to the monastery of Vessra, now a museum of agriculture. The river Werra with its medieval stone bridges accompanies us for the afternoon. The evening and the night we spend in the little former residence town of Meiningen, a famous theater, a theater museum, the castle Elisabethenburg with its English garden and fortified churches.
Day 7: By van return to Weimar.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price Includes:
- Mail-coach journey with a four- or five in hand original mail coach (1875)
- Transfer from Meiningen back to Weimar
- 6 nights in 3x 4* hotels, 2x 3* hotels, 1x simple pension in a castle.
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