TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Austria

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Travel: Old Town and the Hohensalzburg Castle in Salzburg, Austria

Old Town in Salzburg is compact and the place seems small, however it's packed full of many sites to see. Here are some of the tour sites that we saw today, on foot:

Baroque architecture, including many churches
Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Dom)
Franciscan Church (Franziskanerkirche)
St Peter's Abbey with the Petersfriedhof
Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery
Salzburg Residenz, the magnificent former residence of the Prince-Archbishops
Residenzgalerie, an art museum in the Salzburg Residenz
Mozart's Birthplace (yellow building)
Mozart's Residence
University Church
Siegmundstor (or Neutor)
Getreidegasse
Sphaera, a sculpture of a man on a golden sphere (Stephan Balkenhol, 2007)

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Travel: In Salzburg, Austria Where the Sound of Music Still Reigns

We are in Salzburg, Austria, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and where the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born. This was where the Sound of Music was filmed, so you can imagine the Alpine mountains around and rushing river at the edge of the Old Town.