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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.

Must-see spots for history buffs in Vienna

Must-see spots for history buffs in Vienna

Vienna is a notoriously history-rich place. With its central location in Europe, its history as a capital of the Habsburg Monarchy and major role as a strategic point of interest during the Second World War, Vienna has quite literally always been in the Read More

Discounts and Deals in Vienna You Should Know About

Discounts and Deals in Vienna You Should Know About

Of course it depends on where you come from, but I think we can agree that Vienna is a fairly cheap country, especially when compared to the other western ones. Despite this, who doesn’t want to save some money for travelling (we can Read More

Christmas markets – A recommendation

Christmas markets – A recommendation

Although it does not feel like it, winter is coming and with it all those beautiful traditions, which grace our precious city in December. Although temperatures and weather indicate differently Christmas markets all over town celebrate their opening this weekend and in our 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 Danube

The Danube is the longest international river in Europe. It flows through 10 countries from the Black Forest in Germany to the mouth of the Black Sea, and most of its 2000 miles length is navigatable. The Danube is in the centre of Read More

The Third Man Museum in Vienna

Every Saturday afternoon a small private museum opens up the world of Orson Welles cinematic classic “The Third Man”, shot on location in Vienna in 1948 and premiered in London in 1949. Exhibits include historical posters, cinema programs and some 300 movie and 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

Spinnerin am Kreuz: A Viennese Love Story

An early Gothic column on top of the Wienerberg in the 10th District celebrates the Legend of the Spinnerin (a woman who spins). This medieval wayside shrine, first mentioned in 1296, is one of a few early Gothic structures surviving in Vienna today. Read More

Mozart: 21 locations in Vienna

Mozart: 21 locations in Vienna

Even if the triumphant premiere of “Don Giovanni” was in Prague, and Italy, England and Germany marked the first flowering of his gifts, without Vienna, his most important “hometown”, Mozart would never have become what he still remains – the greatest musical genius Read More

The Fountain in Front of the Russian Monument

While many of you are aware that Vienna’s water supply is piped directly from the Austrian Alps south of Vienna, you probably don’t know that the fountain in front of the Russian monument on Schwarzenbergplatz was set up to celebrate the completion of Read More

The Spanish Riding School: Ballet on Horseback

You enter through a simple doorway. You proceed through a hall, until – suddenly – you feel you have stepped onto a stage, or onto a broad plain after passing through a narrow gorge. You have a sense of space and depth and, Read More

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