Travel Briefs

Until Sept. 20, 2015, a 3,500-square-meter, 1:1 ratio, 360-degree panorama of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig is open. The panorama is painted on the interior walls of the Leipzig Panometer, a 161-foot-tall, 187-feet-in-diameter gasometer (gas storage building) built in 1909. Visitors can view it from the ground or on levels of a 50-foot-tall platform.

In October 1813, 550,000 soldiers fought in the battle, with Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against French forces led by...

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The Swiss Travel Pass (www.swisstravelsystem. com) provides unlimited travel on Switzerland’s rails, roads and waterways. It also includes admission to 470 museums and 50% off fares of most mountain railways.

Passes are sold in 3-day ($372 first class/$232 second class), 4-day ($445/$278), 8-day ($643/$401) and 15-day ($779/$487) packages.

The Venice Biennale (www.labiennale.org/en) is an international art exhibition held every two years in Venice, Italy. The 56th will run May 9-Nov. 22, 2015, its theme, “All the World’s Futures.”

View paintings, mixed media, sculptures, tapestries, etc., at the Arsenale on the sestieri of Castello and at the Giardini, near St. Mark’s Square, with pavilions from 29 countries. Ticket, €23.50 (near $27) at www.tickets.labiennale.org. 

During the annual Spring Festival (New Year’s) migration in China, known as the Chunyun, hundreds of millions of people heading home for the holiday — typically, workers and students in cities returning home to their rural families — make a combined three billion-plus trips on planes, trains, buses and other modes of transport.

The rush usually begins 15 days before the date of the Chinese lunar New Year, and the last day of the return migration occurs 25 days after that. (The Chunyun...

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Celebrating 500 years of printing in the city, the “Leipzig imPRESSES” exhibit, March 28-Oct. 4, 2015, includes 15th-century plates from the first printer in Leipzig, prints from Martin Luther and sheet music plus working printing presses.

The Museum for the Printing Arts (Nonnenstraße 38, 04229, Leipzig, Germany; phone +49 341 231 620, www.druckkunst-museum.de) is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and 11-5 Sun.  €6 (near $6.80) adult or €1.50 child. For six or more, a guided tour can be...

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The city of Rouen — where Joan of Arc’s trial and execution took place almost 600 years ago — was scheduled to open a museum in her honor on March 21.

The Historial Jeanne d’Arc (7 rue Saint-Romain, 76 000 Rouen, France; phone +33 02 35 52 48 00, www.historial-jeannedarc.fr [in French]) fills 10 exhibition spaces on five levels of the city’s Palais Archiépiscopal. It features multimedia experiences on the events of 1431 and the political debates that followed years later plus displays...

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In Pamplona, Spain, and featuring artworks by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and other artists as well as sculptures and more than 14,000 Spanish photographs and 100,000 photographic negatives from the 19th century to the present (many from the Spanish Civil War), along with performing arts, the Museum of the University of Navarra (Campus Universitario, 31009 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain; phone +34 948 42 56 00, http://museo.unav.edu/en) opened on Jan. 22.

Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Sat. and 12...

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On a 7-night, round-trip Red Sox fan cruise, Celebrity Reflection embarks from Miami Jan. 9, 2016, to call at Puerto Rico, St. Thomas and Sint Maarten. Jim Rice, Luis Tiant, Mike Timlin and Keith Foulke will be on board for Q&A, meet & greet and karaoke.

Cabins start at $1,110 per person, double, including taxes and gratuities. If booking online at www.celebritycruises.com/boshttp://www.celebritycruises.com/bos, use the group ID number 8039843 for Red Sox activities. Celebrity...

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