Welcome to our 2004 International Workshops adventure in Graz, Austria! As you know, during our workshop, we have scheduled two "Free Days," with no classes. Grazer Tourismus has planned a wonderful variety of optional-cost excursions for you and family members.

Thursday, July 22

1. Eisenstadt and Joseph Haydn

Two names are inseparable with the city Eisenstadt - Joseph Haydn and Esterházy, a composer and a royal family, music and patronage. An intimate concert will be part of the guided tour in Château Esterházy. After lunch you will follow the trail of Joseph Haydn through Eisenstadt.

Euro 96.00 per person (min. 20) includes: bus, guide, entrance fees, concert, lunch (drinks not included) (10 hours)

2. The Austrian Open-Air Museum

The Austrian Open-Air Museum invites you to a relaxing stroll starting at the buildings from Burgenland, Austria's most eastern province, leading on to the impressive "Rauchstubenhäuser" (smoke-room buildings) of the south-eastern alpine region and the stone built structures of the Danube basin. After you have met the traditional alpine farmsteads from Tyrol or Salzburg you will finally reach the archaic diary from the most western province Vorarlberg so that you get the unique opportunity to compare Austria's great variety of regional culture.

Euro 36.00 per person (min. 20) includes: bus, guide and entrance fee and cold snack (5 hours)

3. Guided City Walk includes Kunsthaus

Graz turns visitors into time-travellers. As a World Cultural Heritage site it takes them back through distant centuries of the past in a whirlwind tour of the Renaissance, Gothic and Baroque periods. Graz also captures the moment, the spirit of modern life. In 2003 Graz was the Cultural Capital of Europe. The nomination brought may positive changes and left unmistakable and spectacular marks in the cultural and architectural face of the city such as the Kunsthaus called the "friendly alien": the Island in the River Mur.

Euro 15.50 per person includes: guide and entrance fee (4 hours)

Monday, July 26

4. The Romans - The Styrian Provincial Exhibition 2004

2000 years ago the Romans founded the city Flavia Solva in Southern Styria and thus had a lasting effect on this region and its inhabitants. The Romans have paved our roads, they have provided our homes with water and heating and they have introduced shopping centres and body hygiene to our people. The exhibition "The Romans" gives a close look into the Roman way of thinking and the Roman way of life.

Euro 55.00 per person (min. 20) includes: bus, guide, entrance fee, lunch -- Brettljause (assorted cold hams and sausages) (8 hours)

5. White Horses - Red Wine

Over the hills to the home of the famous white horses of the Spanish Riding School -- the Lipizzaner Stud -- in West Styria. This trip isn't only for horse fanciers, though. It's for anyone who has a taste for the play of the light on the hills, a hearty snack of assorted homemade Styrian delicacies..... a glass of the unique Schilcher wine, that glows with the color of onion skins.....or the dark glint of pumpkin seed oil.

Euro 52.00 per person (min. 20) includes: bus, guide, entrance fee, Brettljause (assorted cold hams and sausages), Schilcher wine tasting (6 hours)

6. Guided City Walk includes "Schlossberg"

Graz turns visitors into time-travellers. As a World Cultural Heritage site it takes them back through distant centuries of the past in a whirlwind tour of the Renaissance, Gothic and Baroque periods. Graz also captures the moment, the spirit of modern life. The Schlossberg, a 473 m high green hill dating back to the 13th century, is the undisputed landmark of Graz.

Euro 11.00 per person (min. 20) includes: guide and elevator up to the clocktower (4 hours)

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