The most pleasant thing about having breakfast in Vienna is that the waiter drops a glass of water, sets the breakfast, and lets you all on your own. Welcome to Vienna, where Wiener Frühstück is served in 3 major styles: In a traditional coffee house, in a fast-paced pastry shop, or in the form of … Continued
Maybe you love or enjoy learning & exploring a royal palace or imperial monument. Still, these only exhibit royal wishes of how an emperor or an empress wished to be seen in history. But the royal furniture lets you understand how the emperor lived: in his bed, in his office, in his travelling suite & … Continued
Vienna does not do Austria souvenirs, like other cities. Here, one family has kept one cake recipe since 1832, the porcelain painters keep working from 300 patterns, and the bakery is still at work to create the snow globe they discovered by chance. That’s not reflected on the plastic fridge magnets arrayed outside of St. … Continued
One day won’t cover Vienna. If you don’t follow a checklist, it will remind you of the part that first-time visitors are most likely to remember: the Gothic cathedral, the Habsburgs’ palace quarter, the good coffee in the traditional coffee house, and the grand Ringstrasse. The city is quite small, so it is not necessary … Continued
What is an ideal day in Vienna? Ask 5 people, and you’ll get 5 different answers, depending on the company. A family running to catch up with their toddler at the Prater doesn’t want to see a couple drinking coffee around the Ringstrasse; neither do they want to see a solitary wanderer with no idea … Continued
Most people plan on exploring the cool places in Vienna with the same list of places to explore. By the second or third day, that list is finished, and Vienna, it turns out, has a great deal left to say. We are not using “Hidden gem” here loosely. Almost nothing in this article is a … Continued
Vienna in the early morning has a particular kind of quiet. Light catches the façades along the Ringstrasse before the trams start running, and for a few minutes the Hofburg’s courtyards look almost the way they must have looked to whoever first walked through them. This is a city built to be looked at slowly, … Continued
Just when you step off a tram at the Ring, Vienna announces itself. The Burgtheater’s curved facade, the gold-tipped spires of the Rathaus, wide boulevards built for carriages long before they carried cars. This is a city designed to be looked at, not walked past with your head down and a map open on your … Continued
Vienna is a city of history, giant buildings & slow traffic. You can venture around this city on foot, by public transport, on a bicycle, on a sightseeing bus, or on a traditional tour. The motorised electric car has an older face to all the streets of Vienna: a private, open-sided ride around the city … Continued
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Michaelerplatz is that square in Vienna, where you will circle a thirteenth-century church, a curved Baroque façade of an imperial palace, one of the most controversial buildings in modern Europe, and, at your feet, the remains of the Roman Vienna that was dug up. This is exactly how “dense” this little square is, and that … Continued