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1. Sightseeing Tour Lake Chiemsee including Herreninsel with the Royal Palace and Fraueninsel (guided tour by bus and boat)
Wednesday, 03 June 2015, 13.00 - 21.00
Tour by bus and ship. Price per person: € 120,00
The tour includes: Bus tranfer, English-speaking tour guide, boat tickets, entrance to the Royal Palace and a three-course dinner (without beverages)

2. Munich Sightseeing Tour (Grand Circle Tour) including Nymphenburg Palace and Olympic Park
Wednesday, 03 June 2015, 14.00 – 18.00
Bus tour. Price per person: € 40,00
The tour includes: Transport by bus, English-speaking guide, Nymphenburg Castle, elevator to the roof top of the Olympic Tower

3. Munich Residence and guided tour through the picturesque historic city center (walking tour)
Wednesday, 03 June 2015, 14.00 – 18.00
Walking tour available. Price per person: € 30,00
The tour includes: Tickets Munich Residence and Cuvilliés Theatre, tour historic city of Munich, English-speaking guide

4. Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial
Wednesday, 03 June 2015, 14.00 - 18.00
Bus tour. Price per person: € 30,00
The tour includes: Transfer by bus, Ticket Concentration Camp, English-speaking guide

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1. Sightseeing Tour Lake Chiemsee including Herreninsel with the Royal Palace and Fraueninsel (guided tour by bus and boat)
Wednesday, 03 June 2015, 13.00 - 21.00
Tour by bus and ship
Meeting point: Pickup at the Congress venue
Price per person: € 120,00
The tour includes: Bus tranfer, English-speaking tour guide, boat tickets, entrance to the Royal Palace and a three-course dinner (without beverages)Schlosspark Herrenchiemsee

Royal Palace of Herrenchiemsee (New Palace)
Foto: Anton J. Brandl, © Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung www.herrenchiemsee.de

In 1873 King Ludwig II of Bavaria acquired the Herreninsel as the location for his Royal Palace of Herrenchiemsee (New Palace). Modelled on Versailles, this palace was built as a "Temple of Fame" for King Louis XIV of France, whom the Bavarian monarch fervently admired. The actual building of this "Bavarian Versailles", which was begun in 1878 from plans by Georg Dollmann, was preceded by a total of 13 planning stages. When Ludwig II died in 1886 the palace was still incomplete, and sections of it were later demolished. The highlights of the large state rooms are the State Staircase, the State Bedroom and the Great Hall of Mirrors. The king's own rooms were in the intimate Small Apartment, designed in the French rococo style. In 1876 Court Garden Director Carl von Effner completed the plans for a large garden resembling that of Versailles. When the king died, only the sections along the main axis with their famous fountains and waterworks had been completed.

The State Bedchamber in the State Apartment, in the style of Louis XIV of France, is the most expensively appointed room from the 19th century. It was created between 1879 and 1881.

Paradeschlafzimmer, Neues Schloss Herrenchiemsee
© Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung www.herrenchiemsee.de

„Die Fraueninsel" -„The Women's Island"

The Benedictine abbey of Frauenwörth is situated in a beautiful, unspoiled landscape at the edge of the Bavarian Alps on the Fraueninsel (The Women's Island) in Lake Chiemsee. The Fraueninsel rises up to 8 metres above sea level, has a surface area of 12 hectares and a comfortable walk around the whole shoreline takes only 20 minutes. The island is one of the oldest cultural sites in the Chiemgau.
With just over 50 houses and approximately 250 inhabitants the island is very densely populated and constitutes the smallest administrative district in Bavaria. The monastery covers nearly one third of the island. The long and varied history, the landscape, the people of the area, pilgrimages to the Blessed Irmengard and the spiritual community, which is orientated to constancy and self-administration, and have all shaped this marvellous place and give it a special atmosphere and attraction.

2. Munich Sightseeing Tour (Grand Circle Tour) including Nymphenburg Palace and Olympic Park
Wednesday, 03 June 2015, 14.00 - 18.00
Bus tour available for 50 participants
Meeting point: Pickup at the Congress venue
Price per person: € 40,00
The tour includes: Transport by bus, English-speaking guide, Nymphenburg Castle, elevator to the roof top of the Olympic Tower

Downtown Munich
© München Tourismus, Photographer: Werner O. Hausmann
Take part in this exciting bus tour carefully planned to visit the highlights and beauties of Munich. The English-speaking guide will tell you fascinating stories about the historic city centre, the Main Station, Odeonsplatz, the Opera, Maximilian Street, the Food Market, Stachus, the Pinakotheken, Nymphenburg Castle, Olympic Park, Schwabing and the English Garden.

Schlosspark Nymphenburg
©München Tourismus, Foto J. Lutz
The baroque palace in the west part of Munich was the summer residence of the Bavarian monarchs. Five generations of Wittelsbach rulers were involved in the construction of this stately ensemble, which houses several outstanding collections. With its lavishly decorated interior and the famous "Gallery of Beauties" commissioned by Ludwig I, the palace is one of Munich's favorite attractions. Among the highlights are the former bedroom of King Ludwig II and the impressive banquet hall with fine ceiling frescoes by Johann Baptist Zimmermann.

Olympic Park
© Olympiapark München GmbH
The Olympic Park in northern Munich is well known beyond the borders of the capital city. The unique tent architecture of the buildings and the Olympic Tower are some of Munich's well known landmarks. After the Olympic Games in 1972, a 300-hectare-sized park was developed into a recreation center for the entire city. Joggers, cyclists, and walkers take their laps here, and swimmers do lengths in the Olympic swimming facility. At over 50 meters (150 feet) high, the Olympic Hill towers over the park grounds and is an ideal spot to enjoy a view of the roofs of Munich and to the mountains beyond.

3. Munich Residence and guided tour through the picturesque historic city center (walking tour)
Wednesday, 03 June 2015, 14.00 - 18.00
Walking tour available for 50 participants (two groups)
Meeting point: Max-Joseph-Platz, statue of the Bavarian king Max I Joseph in front of the Opera.
Price per person: € 30,00
The tour includes: Tickets Munich Residence and Cuvilliés Theatre, tour historic city of Munich, English-speaking guide

Residenz München © Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung www.residenz-muenchen.de
The Munich Residenz served as the seat of government and residence of the Bavarian dukes, electors and kings from 1508 to 1918. What began in 1385 as a castle at the north-eastern corner of the town (the Neuveste, or new citadel) was transformed over the centuries into a magnificent palace, its buildings and gardens extending further and further into the town.
The architecture, interior decoration and works of art collected in the Residenz range in time from the Renaissance, via the early Baroque and Rococo periods to the neoclassical era. They all bear witness to the discriminating taste and the political ambition of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

Marienplatz between 1890 und 1899

The Munich historic city is the oldest part of the Bavarian capital city. Together with the quarter of Lehel it composes the urban district no. 1 "Altstadt-Lehel". The whole area of the historic city is listed as „protected monument" and as "archeological site" in the "Bavarian Register of Monuments".

4. Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial
Wednesday, 03 June 2015, 14.00 - 18.00
Bus tour available for 25 participants
Meeting point: Pickup at the Congress venue
Price per person: € 30,00
The tour includes: Transfer by bus, Ticket Concentration Camp, English-speaking guide

© Picture: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial
Venture out of Munich by bus for a comprehensive small group tour through Dachau Concentration Camp and memorial site. An authorized English-speaking guide will share important information concerning the desperate survivors who'd been tortured and exploited throughout the course of World War II. Today, Dachau Memorial Site is a place of memory, of pilgrimage and of education. It's a sobering experience, but an important one to help ensure we never forget.
Just outside the medieval town center of Dachau, a Memorial Site stands on the grounds of the former concentration camp. This was the 'parent' camp. Dachau was the 'Academy of Terror', the originator, role-model and training ground for the vast order of brutality that spread over half of Europe in the wake of the armies of the Third Reich, and which ultimately culminated in history's greatest crime, the Final Solution.
2005 marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of most Nazi concentration camps in the closing months of the Second World War. All over an exhausted Europe, advancing Allied soldiers set free the desperate survivors of camp after camp. The diseased, the starving, the barely alive emerged to tell a shocked and disbelieving world of the full horror of a network of systematized murder and degradation that had first been set in motion in 1933.
While each camp was responsible for its own particular form of barbarism, what distinguished Dachau is that almost everything that happened in the system as a whole happened at some level there. Almost every category of victim passed through its infamous Arbeit macht frei (Freedom through Work) gate, German dissidents, outspoken clergymen, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Jews, Polish civilians, all in all the citizens of some 34 nations. Today's Memorial Site combines the historical authenticity of the original environment and its many surviving buildings with the function of a modern exhibition center. It is a place of memory, of pilgrimage and of education.