Central Europe: Vienna, Prague, and Budapest
(GER 305 or HUM 278) The cultural history of Vienna from its Roman roots through its flights of baroque fancy to its turn-of-the-20th-century decadence and its contemporary edge. The Habsbugs, whose capital was Vienna, also loved their Empire’s two other main cities, which we will visit—Prague and Budapest. An emphasis on on-site discovery of the geography, urban organization, transportation networks, commerce, and daily life of Central Europe, as well as on discovering the many ways the past is preserved there.