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Five museums to explore in Vienna

Five museums to explore in Vienna

Vienna is a great city if you are into museums, with its history-rich background and its tradition as a cultural melting pot in the heart of Europe, there are museums to explore and things to learn for every taste imaginable. Here are a few of Vienna’s best museums, but remember to allow yourself enough time to browse through the exhibitions while you’re there.

Nerd culture in Vienna – amazing places to treat your inner nerd

Nerd culture in Vienna – amazing places to treat your inner nerd

Nerd culture is booming all over the world and with Pokémon Go launching in Austria, you can actually see the numbers quite literally on the streets these days. Gamers, cosplayers, Anime, Manga and comic aficionados are no longer a rare species; the communities Read More

Five great spots to hang out with a beer in the summer sun

Five great spots to hang out with a beer in the summer sun

Spring and summer days are excellent times in Vienna. The weather is usually quite dry and warm – some might even argue too hot in the peak summer days – and the Viennese people love nothing more than leisurely having a relaxed glass Read More

Four exciting sights of Imperial Vienna

Four exciting sights of Imperial Vienna

Viennese history is strongly connected to the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the era of the reign of the Habsburgs. This period of time helped forge the image of Vienna, which is prevalent around the world until today – an inner city Read More

Top 5 Parks and Gardens in Vienna

Top 5 Parks and Gardens in Vienna

Although Austria is known around the world as a skiing destination, Vienna can get seriously hot during the summer months, so parks and gardens as places to cool down have a long standing tradition and there are plenty of nice spots all around Read More

Wedding customs in Austria

Wedding customs in Austria

Wedding customs and traditions exist since the institution of marriage has been around. And that’s pretty long. These customs have changed over time. Some have disappeared, others have survived to this day. The meaning and origin of the different wedding customs vary widely. Read More

Great places for gourmet coffee in Vienna

Great places for gourmet coffee in Vienna

Vienna has a long-standing tradition of coffee houses which saw many great minds come together to work, write and exchange ideas over the past centuries. This tradition still is quite present in modern-day Vienna and tourists frequent the popular, well-known cafés throughout the Read More

Wiener Stadtpark

The Vienna City Park extends from the Parkring in the First District of Vienna up to the Heumarkt (a street, literally translated as hay market) in the Third District and covers an area of 65,000 m². Even as early as in the Biedermeier Read More

The Fiaker: A Taxi With Tradition

The Fiaker: A Taxi With Tradition

No matter how heavy the traffic in modern Vienna, there always is room for the horsedrawn cab known as the Fiaker. The German word ” Fiaker’ refer to both the two-horse cab itself and to the cabby, who is generally dressed in pepita-check Read More

How I became a Tourist Guide in Vienna

Many people think a guide is a guide, but there are subtle differences. In Japan, we distinguish between “tour conductors” or “tour leaders” (who accompany their groups from/to Japan), “transfer guides” (whose job is limited mainly to meeting groups and seeing them off) Read More

Austrian Christmas Creches – Weihnachtskrippen

Tucked inside a small rectangular gold box, the beauty of which is further enhanced by 13 stunning precious stones each accented by pearls, is a piece of Christ’s manger, a gift from Pope Urban V to the Habsburg Emperor Karl IV in 1368. Read More

Beethoven’s Dwellings

Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms (among others) are symbolized in Vienna not only with monuments but also with museums (two, in Schubert’s case: his birthplace, and the house in which he died), but it is Beethoven who is represented most. With several museums Read More

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