Author: Jeremiah Ipaye

Vienna’s own tourist board suggests that this city has over 100 museums; and if you doubt the ‘small district collections’, the specialist archives and so forth, some registries hit the nail on the head and count well over half that. The art of visiting is not to see as much as possible, it’s to see … Continued

You may have traveled a lot & witnessed that every city has churches as its secondary attraction, but Vienna is different. Vienna has churches that are aesthetic, classic & timeless, all at once. In a city built by an empire that took religion as seriously as it took architecture, Vienna’s churches are often more impressive … Continued

Vienna didn’t just invent a coffee culture, it turned the act of drinking coffee into a civic ritual worth protecting by law. In 2011, UNESCO added Viennese Coffee House Culture to Austria’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, recognising something no other capital has quite managed, a 300-year-old tradition where one cup of Melange buys a … Continued

Ask anyone what to have in Vienna & you will get the same answer: Wiener Schnitzel. The reason is that this dish is veritably Austrian cuisine, and many local favorite restaurants have been cooking it the traditional & authentic way for decades, or even centuries. However, the question is where to get the best Schnitzel … Continued

Vienna turns into Europe’s Christmas capital, in secret, every November. Originally, this long-standing privilege was given in 1296 by Duke Albrecht I to the merchants of Vienna, the forerunners of the modern Christkindlmarkets, to hold a Christmas market that year. Today, even after 8 centuries, over a dozen squares, courtyards, and palace forecourts in the … Continued