Vienna: Cultural & Culinary Highlights in 1 day

It will be a very comfortable walking tour and we pass all the major highlights o Old Vienna and the city center:

Starting in the ancient Greek Quarter who will get an idea who Vienna looked like in the Middle Ages. It was a v narrow but busy trade center on the Danube river. Different religions, different languages ad huge variety of professions were typical for those times. The impressive and very rich equpped Jesuit church will show us, how everything changed after the defeat of the Turcs in the 17th century. Vienna became a residence capital and all the money was spent in catholic churches and baroque palais. St. Stephens Cathedral is the heart of the city and the most important real-gothic cathedral of the German speaking region.

A lunch break will show us the variety of Old Vienna Cuisine. You can deside for Wiener Schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Kaiserschmarrn (difficult to translate - "Emperors Nonense"), but fore sure one of the favorite dishes of Emperor Franz Joseph I. The restaurant we choose is typical Old Vienna style.

Passinf romantic lanes and visiting beautiful courtyards we will hear about famous persons like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Graham Green, Billy Wilder, Empress Sisi and Maria Theresia, Sigmund Freud and many more. All these historical personalities were born in Vienna, spent part of their life in Vienna or created their masterpieces in Vienna.

Traditional cafés are very important in Vienna. Much more than in any other city of the world. The Kaffeehaus is an institution itself like, was and still is a living-room for artists, Viennese as visitors. We well hear more about this on visiting a typical Kaffeehaus and having Viennese Melange & Apfelstrudel.

After this we will cross the courts of the Imperial Palais. This was the heart of the Habsburg administration. Starte700 years ago as a little castle it is now one of the biggest buildings in Europe. The Emperors Appartments will show us, who the Habsburg lived, ruled and how they were organized. Part of this is the Sisimuseum, dedicated to empress Sisi and her life. All the way long we will pass fascinating fountains as a marvellous ornament on nearly each corner of Vienna.

Let´s spend ONE DAY IN VIENNA, maybe your first one together!

The following program can start at 9 a.m. and will end at 5 p.m.