Price Includes: 4 star hotels, breakfast and dinner daily, full time English speaking tour escort, services of long distance deluxe motor coach as appear on itinerary, all step-on guides, entrances and transportation as appear on itinerary.
Airport transfers are included only when airfare is purchased from Pilgrim Tours. Taxi service is available for those purchasing their airfare elsewhere. An overnight flight will bring us to Frankfurt, Germany by the next morning. Meals are served on board. We arrive in Frankfurt where we are met by our tour bus and driven on an introductory city tour throughout Frankfurt, Germany. The remainder of the day is at your leisure to rest and prepare for rest of the tour.
We spend two nights in Frankfurt. Our first stop is in the world-famous university city of Heidelberg, where Melanchthon studied. It was here that Martin Luther was tried for heresy. Our final city of the day is Mainz where we visit the Gutenberg Museum.
It was here that Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type and printed the world-famous Gutenberg Bible. We depart Frankfurt this morning and drive through the wonderful German countryside to Eisenach, the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach. We visit the formidable Wartburg Castle. Next we travel a short distance to Erfurt one of the most important landmarks on the "Luther Trail" in Germany and a city that boasts one of the most attractive medieval city centers in Germany, with patrician townhouses, half-timbered buildings, Europe's longest inhabited bridge, and enough churches to be called "The Rome of Thuringia.
We overnight in Erfurt. Leaving Erfurt this morning we continue the Reformation Trail to Eisleben which is where Luther was born in and died in We will visit the house of his birth and death, also St. Andrews Church where he preached his last sermon. We also view the Luther Monument and St. A drive through the Thringian countryside brings us to Leipzig with a visit to St.
