Summer Travel

An Encounter with Spain ~ Past & Present

     The 2010 Travel Study program, An Encounter with Spain ~ Past and Present will be taught in Madrid, Spain - July 26 - August 28, 2010. Spend five weeks exploring modern Madrid and environs.

     Visit three of the great museums of Europe, within easy walking distance of one another. Independently, take in theater productions, films, and take trips on weekends on high-speed trains to visit other cities of interest, such as Sevilla and Barcelona. Weekly excursions are planned for the group (by chartered bus) to Toledo, a city of unending fascination; to Segovia, with its magnificent Alcázar, and then to a summer palace of the Bourbons at nearby La Granja; to the unique palace built by Philip II, El Escorial, from which he ran the Spanish empire; to Ávila, the city of Santa Teresa, and Salamanca, with its great plaza mayor and university. Students will be housed, with meals included, in the Colegio Mayor Santo Tomás de Aquino on the campus of the Universidad Complutense, along with the director and his wife. 

     The classroom will seldom have four walls but will be all of Madrid and as much of the outlying area as time permits students to visit and study. Travel Study participants are more likely to meet in the Prado or the Reina Sofía or the Palacio Real-or in Toledo or Segovia-than in a traditional classroom.

     An Encounter with Spain, Past and Present is a five-week course which requires Spanish language proficiency in order to participate.

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