The site of the meeting is in a newly renovated complex of beautiful
old buildings of the Collegium Bernardi, a boarding school operated by
Kloster Mehrerau (founded in 1097), within easy walking distance
to the shore of the
magnificent Lake Constance, Bregenz City Park, and a nature preserve.
Bregenz, the State Capital of Vorarlberg,
is a modern city of 29,000 and is
the cultural center of the province.
The city was originally a Celtic settlement and integrated into the
Roman empire as a province in 15 B.C.
"Brigantium" then became the seat of Roman
administration and the first inhabitants became provincial Roman citizens.