Vienna, one of Europe’s most magnificent capitals, is our home base. We hike the Austrian Alps and explore the Danube River and the beautiful Wachau winegrowing region. Mozart and Beethoven composed in Vienna, a musical capital home to more classical composers than any other city. Sigmund Freud and Gustav Klimt made Vienna the birthplace of “modernity.” A center of Jewish culture, Vienna saw the destruction of its flourishing Jewish community after Nazi annexation. We visit Austria’s most notorious concentration camp, Mauthausen. In the Cold War, Vienna, officially “neutral,” became a United Nations headquarter—and a hotbed of international espionage, which it remains today. With the fall of the iron curtain, it is again a meeting point between East and West. Full program details.

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