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Social Program

Sunday 15-Apr-2007
18:00-20:00Reception Holiday Inn - Foyer Großer Saal and Forum 4&5  
 
Wednesday 18-Apr-2007
19:30-23:00Conference Dinner   Deutsches Museum - Luftfahrthalle
 
Thursday 19-Apr-2007
14:00-18:00 Munich Highlights Tour Holiday Inn entrance
14:00-18:00 Royal Castle of Linderhof and "The Abby of Ettal" Tour Holiday Inn entrance
15:00-19:00 Soccer & Brewery Tour Holiday Inn entrance



Excursions

Half-day excursions on Thursday 19-Apr-2007

The workshop participants and the accompanying persons have the opportunity to choose one of the three excursions described below. For all of them the bus transportation will be arranged. The buses leave from the Holiday Inn at 14:00. All excursions have an expected duration of approximately 4 hours.


I. Munich Highlights

Price per person 29 €

This tour includes a visit to two of Munich's major historical and cultural sites:

The Residenz (German word for residence) is the former royal residence of the Bavarian Dukes, Electors and Kings. It is one of the finest room decoration museums in Europe. The complex of buildings contains ten courtyards and 130 rooms. The three main parts are the Königsbau (near the Max-Joseph-Platz), the Alte Residenz (towards the Residenzstraße) and the Festsaalbau (towards the Hofgarten). A wing of the Festsaalbau contains the Cuvilliés Theatre, a partial reconstruction of the original theater built between 1751 and 1755, which was destroyed in 1944. The tour includes a visit of the Alte Residenz.

More information: www.residenz-muenchen.de (wikipedia)

The Lenbachhaus is one of Munich's many galleries. It is most famous for the large collection of paintings of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of expressionist artists established in Munich in 1911 which included the painters Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc, August Macke, Marianne von Werefkin, Paul Klee and others. The gallery also shows masterpieces of several Munich painters of the 18th and 19th century and gives a very profound view of international contemporary art.

More information: www.lenbachhaus.de (german only) (wikipedia)


II. Royal Castle of Linderhof and "The Abby of Ettal"

Price per person 41 €

Two of the most precious jewels of Bavaria can be seen during this excursion:

The dream castle Linderhof built by King Ludwig II in French rococo style with its fantastic grotto and the moorish pavillion is located in the southwest of Bavaria. It is the smallest of the three castles built by the King but the only one of which he lived to see completion.

More information: www.linderhof.de (wikipedia)

Ettal Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Ettal close to Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.

More information: www.kloster-ettal.de (wikipedia)


III. Soccer & Brewery Tour

Price per person 39 €

According to a survey more than 45 % of all our guests in Munich know the slogan "Weltstadt mit Herz", which was created in our Olympic year 1972 - but more than 85 % of all visitors have "beer" and "Oktoberfest" in mind when they come to Munich.

Our beer tour tells you a lot about hops and malt, why the Bavarian national drink became so popular, about purity laws, beer revolution and beer battles. The beer tour offers you funny and interesting information about Munich's way of life and includes a visit to a small brewery (with beer tasting)

In additional to the "Beer Tour", participants in this tour will visit the most modern soccer stadium in Europe, the Allianz Arena - venue for the World Soccer Championship 2006.

More information: www.allianz-arena.de (wikipedia)



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