American Ancestors invites you to join Curt DiCamillo for an unforgettable week in Saxony, the cultural heart of Germany for over 800 years. We’ll begin in vibrant Leipzig, home of the oldest civic orchestra in the world, and the city where Mendelsohn, Bach, and Wagner all lived. In Meissen, we’ll visit the oldest porcelain factory in Europe and see one of the purest examples of Gothic architecture on the continent—Meissen Cathedral. The last leg of our Saxon odyssey will be in Dresden, “the Florence on the Elbe,” where we’ll see breathtaking art, including the sublime treasures of the royal Green Vault. All of this amazing culture will be topped off with luxury accommodation at two of Germany’s finest hotels: the Steigenberger Icon Grandhotel Handelshof in Leipzig and the Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski in Dresden.

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Study Leaders

Stefan Albrecht 
Originally from Hesse, Stefan moved to Berlin in 1994 and became entranced by the city’s Prussian history and its unique architecture and city planning. He studied art history and classical archeology at Humboldt University and founded his own travel company in 1999 that specializes in luxury tours of Berlin and beyond.

Curt DiCamillo
Curt is the Curator of Fine Art at American Ancestors. Before he came to American Ancestors he worked for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Trust for Scotland. Curt is a noted historian and a recognized authority on the British country house, about which he has written, lectured, and taught in the U.S. and abroad. Since 1999 he has maintained an award winning database on the web, TheDiCamillo.com, which seeks to document every English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish country house ever built, standing or demolished. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a member of the Council of the American Museum in Britain.