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Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Muesum counts among the most important museums in the world. It was built by Emperor Franz Joseph to house the fabulous Habsburg collections that had been assembled over centuries.
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Vienna Boys’ Choir among oldest in World
One of the oldest boys' choirs in the world, the Vienna Boys’ Choir has been one of the enduring symbols of Austria for more than 500 years. See Austria’s “singing ambassadors’ perform every Sunday at mass in Vienna’s Imperial Chapel in the Hofburg, formerly the private chapel of the Habsburg emperors.
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The Confectioners’ Ball – a Sweet Evening to remember!
One, two, three… dance in the rhythm of the Viennese waltz at one of the famous Viennese balls and enjoy a delicious night at the Confectioners’ Ball. Stunning ball gowns, sweet surprises and a glamorous atmosphere await you.
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Wiener Festwochen
Each year a huge celebration in front of City Hall kicks off this festival, which combines cultural experiences of the highest order with socially relevant themes and objectives.
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Unique room concept by Jean Nouvel
Whatever your mood of the moment – you can create a perfect sense of well-being in a surrounding that reminds you of a sublime, understated art space were time takes on a different meaning.
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Imperial Carriage Museum
Located near Schönbrunn Palace, the Imperial Carriage Museum’s unique collection invites you on a tour through Austria’s history.
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A Walk of Design at Augarten Palace
Tour the Augarten Palace, home to one of the world’s most famous porcelain manufactories and Vienna’s oldest Baroque gardens.
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A Viennese Epicurean highlight
It’s a wine bar, restaurant, and delicatessen all rolled into one. It’s historic, authentic and has been a favourite of the Viennese for nearly 400 years. “Zum schwarzen Kameel” is just as lively and fashionable as it always was.
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Bake your own Apple Strudel
Apple strudel lovers read on. The Café Residenz at Schönbrunn Palace, one of the historic bakers to the Habsburg family, shows you how to bake your own apple strudel according to their traditional recipe. Take the recipe home and get treated to a mouth-watering, oven-warm slice.
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Schlumberger – Austria’s Royalty of Sekt
If Austrians talk about Sekt, they talk about the golden liquid that makes us all want more: sparkling wine. One of the oldest and famed producers is the Schlumberger family in Vienna. Head out to their 300-year-old cellars and let it get historic … and romantic!
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Rustic country charm for city sophisticates
“Südbahn wine” is what the Viennese affectionately call their favorite weekend beverage as they take the 20-minute southbound train from the city to Gumpoldskirchen for recreational enjoyment. The main streets of the sleepy little village come to life in the late afternoon as the local wine farms fling open the doors to over 30 heuriger to invite visitors for hearty country food, full-bodied wines, and folk music.
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Le Loft Restaurant @ the Sofitel
Vienna has a new culinary highpoint. The new Gault Millau awarded Restaurant Le Loft is located on the 18th floor of the Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom in Vienna’s trendy 2nd district – a short walk from the city center. The excellent cuisine is complemented with one of the most spectacular views of the city.
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Looking for a Coffeehouse in Vienna?
The Viennese coffeehouse is more than a culinary and social retreat. It is deeply connected to the Viennese people and culture, each telling its own unique story. For example, the Café Central was home to poets and philosophers, the Café Sperl a place for artists and architects. Choose among hundreds to find your personal favorite!
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Plachutta – The authority on Viennese Cuisine
Plachutta is renowned for its prime boiled beef, a Viennese signature dish called Tafelspitz. Combined with it's authentic, cozy atmosphere.
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Sight Running
Discover Vienna on the run: with the guides from Vienna Sight Running you can get to know the Austrian capital from a completely different side – and at the same time do something for your own fitness, stamina, and health.
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The Sacher torte
Vienna's most storied cafe invites! A visit to the Cafe Sacher in the venerable Hotel Sacher is a must on your Vienna-list. Feel centuries of history, taste decades of experience, and relax for hours. Ahhh, I wish I could join!
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The Imperial Treasury
The Treasury houses Habsburg treasures and insignia, among them the Austrian imperial crown as well as the insignia, and jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. Precious jewels such as the largest cut emerald in the world testify to the Habsburgs’ former power and glory.
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Innovative Water Taxi connects 2 cities
No EU capitals are geographically closer together than Vienna and Bratislava. A new enjoyable way to get from city to city is on the Danube is truly a joy. Relax in your seat and see the sights pass by. Or stand on the deck and feel the fresh air caressing your hair on the open-air deck of the Twin City Liner and arrive in only 75 minutes, door-to-door!
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Vienna's Hotel Imperial
The musical legacy at the Hotel Imperial is more than noticeable. This legendary palace hotel in the heart of Vienna not only hosted brilliant music celebrities in the past, such as Richard Wagner and the like, but also still does up until today. Be for one day the object of inspiration to these classical music personalities, who will compose a piece just for you.
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Butler Service at the Hotel Imperial Vienna
Enjoy your own personal butler service at the Imperial Hotel in Vienna and experience being treated like an old-world aristocrat. The Imperial is one of the few hotels in the world, and the only hotel in Austria, offering such a service – better don’t miss it.
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Swarovski at its Best
In the heart of Vienna, a new inspirational store of Swarovski awaits you: a fantasy world of crystals, a fusion of stunning jewelry and artistic installations. Swarovski Wien entices into a shopping landscape on three levels displaying jewelry, accessories, decor objects and figurines and enchants with magical installations from world renowned artists.
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Open Air Music & Culinary Highlights
The gothic spires of Vienna’s City Hall are an enchanting backdrop for two summer months of culinary and music delicacies that delight visitors and locals alike. The world class musical performances are broadcast on a gigantic screen and are free to enjoy. Food vendors from some of Vienna’s best restaurants provide an unmatched culinary experience in the heart of the city.
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ÖSTERREICHISCHE WERKSTÄTTEN
Established in the 1910s, the products available in the store still transcend the philosophy of its’ founder, Josef Hoffmann. Get inspired and bring back souvenirs for your friends and family.
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Café Imperial - aromatic brews & tempting bites
Experience Viennese coffeehouse culture by visiting the Café Imperial at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna. Plunge into a world full of charm, history and delicious coffee. Together with its famous eponymous “Imperial Torte” your visit will be memorable.
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Vienna’s Giant Ferris Wheel
Vienna's historic and most romantic place for a marriage proposal. If that’s not in your travel plans, you’ll enjoy the magnificent view with a few less butterflies in your stomach.
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Lobmeyr glassware
The former purveyor to the court is well-known all over the world for its glass culture and chandelier design.
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Designer Wine Bar in the heart of Vienna
Unger & Klein is a bottle shop turned wine bar that has the feel of designer blue jeans. You’ll appreciate the stunning designer shelving that is simultaneously the wine list and menu. The concept invites to browse and mingle with other like-minded hedonists. Have the sommelier put together a flight of unique Austrian red wines.
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Vintner Show & Tell at Designer Hotel
Located in the heart of Vienna, this is not just a hotel with a little glass, steel and stone and then a grape seed oil facial mask in your bathroom. This family-operated hotel has dedicated the entire heart and soul of their establishment to wine. Each of the individually designed rooms is sponsored by an Austrian vintner who also stocks the mini bar. Even the delicious breakfast buffet features wine in a non-alcoholic edible form!
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Wiener Mélange with Strauss Melodies
Coffeehouses in Vienna are your home away from home. Delicious coffee specialties, yummy pastries, all enjoyed in cozy seats and couches, paired with live piano music. Yes, read on! Many of Vienna’s best coffeehouses are your private concert hall, with live piano music, often with soloists -- and enjoyed all for free.
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The Belvedere Launches Klimt Year 2012
In honor of Gustav Klimt’s 150th birthday, Vienna’s Galerie Belvedere kicks off a yearlong, citywide celebration of the artist and the Jugendstil movement.
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Reopening the Kunstkammer (chamber of art and wonders)
The most important collection of its kind, the Kunstkammer – newly renovated and enhanced – is returning to the KHM after 10 years. Be enchanted by this realm of fantasy’s overwhelming gold, bronze, ivory, and wooden beauty, as well as exotic elements such as ostrich eggs, the horn of the legendary unicorn, and Benvenuto Cellini’s Saliera.
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In the footsteps of the Third Man
The Third Man, the famous movie based on a screenplay British novelist Graham Greene, showcases Vienna during the years after WWII when the city was devastated and recovering from the horrors of the war, and separated into four separate zones, each governed by one of the victorious allies.
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Making the Most of the Material World
Imagine a museum where fine craft, contemporary art, architecture and design are perpetually engaged in stimulating conversation. That’s the MAK arena.
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Art & Design at the Hotel Altstadt Vienna
In the middle of the city’s 7th district, behind the splendid façade of an old patrician house, one finds the Hotel Altstadt Vienna. Since its opening in 1991 the stylish 4-star hotel has been a favourite hideaway for art-lovers, musicians, and travelers from all over the world.
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Urban oasis and creative culinary arts
When looking for the perfect place for a delightful hide-away for a drink or delicious meal in the heart of Vienna, definitely consider the Hotel Bristol. The Bristol Bar and the Korso Restaurant at the centrally located Bristol is the place to go! Chic, comfortable and reflecting the elegant pulse of the city the Bristol is the place to go.
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Explore the Schönbrunn Zoo
Ogling local and exotic animals with your night-vision goggles after dark or rising early to get a glimpse of early morning feeding, the Schönbrunn Zoo still stages the world’s most fascinating animal experiences and attractions. Quite an achievement considering that it is also the world’s oldest zoo!
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Unique rooms and suites in a stately palace
Enter our former palace and be transformed into a prince or princess in one of Hotel Imperial’s elegant suites. Every single luxurious room is a door into 19th-century Vienna, where elegance and sophistication reign.
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Beethoven’s Retreat in Vienna
“Gemütlichkeit” cannot be directly translated – it’s an Austrian word that combines cozy-warm-familiar. It describes the food, people and place of the historic Mayer am Pfarrplatz, where Beethoven already enjoyed Austrian hospitality. Sit in his favorite place in the garden under the trees and feast from the appetizing buffet laden with homemade specialties and enjoy authentic, live Viennese folk music.
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Vienna Walks & Talks
Meet Vienna Walks & Talks, a family-run and highly specialized tour company founded by Dr. Brigitte Timmermann, and let them take you on their out of the ordinary sightseeing tours that make you discover the more hidden treasures of Vienna in a rather unconventional way.
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Vienna’s Central Cemetery
Vienna may not be as famous for its cemeteries as New Orleans, and “Central Cemetery” may not sound as romantic as „Pierre Lachaise“. Nonetheless Vienna’s Central Cemetery is one of the most interesting cemeteries in Europe – due to its size by area (495 acres) and number interred (3.3 million), ist history and its famous “inhabitants”.
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Hotel Sacher’s Time to Chocolate
High above the roofs of Vienna, on the fifth floor of the superior five-star Hotel Sacher Wien, you will find the Sacher Spa which is the crowning glory of the hotel - relaxation, health and vitality: a sweet relief. As signature ingredient, the cocoa bean provides immediate results and surprises with its long-lasting effects.
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Learn to Waltz at Vienna’s Best Address
The Dance School of Elmayer is Vienna’s finest dance institution. Learn the Viennese Waltz and etiquette that comes along with it at this historic address before joining the fun at one of Vienna’s festive balls.
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Vienna at its Most Authentic
For over 430 years, the SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL is practicing classical equitation in the Renaissance tradition of the haute école. Take in a performance or practice session in this venerable institution. At the HOUSE OF MUSIC you have a chance to discover the fascinating world of music and sound. Interactive, playful, fun it will grant you new insights and access into the world of music and will often surprise you.
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Schullin Jewelry
The name Schullin is synonymous with exclusive design and exquisite quality jewelry. Located in a tiny storefront - designed by Hans Hollein, a Pritzker Prize winning architect - in one of Vienna’s best addresses, the Kohlmarkt.
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World-class Art & Culinary Delights
Featuring world-renowned collections dating back five millennia, Austria’s principal museum of fine arts is an institution devoted to indulging our senses.
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Naschmarkt Vienna
A Festival for the Senses: A Saturday morning must-do for locals, the Viennese Naschmarkt, Vienna’s largest outdoor market, attracts a crowd as diverse as the stalls and restaurants it features.
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Palais Coburg Vienna: wine cellar
The Palais Coburg in the heart of Vienna has been restored to its original splendor and now houses a most luxurious all-suite hotel, a gourmet restaurant and a collection of rare wines that seeks international comparison. On your tour of the six unique and stunningly designed wine cellars, you will discover more than 60,000 bottles of valuable wine spanning four centuries.
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Hotel Altstadt Vienna
The Altstadt Vienna is at once many things to many people. A meeting place for lovers of art and music, a heaven for travelers that seek a hotel with character and outstanding service and to American travel publications such as Condé Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure the Altstadt is a remarkable example of affordable luxury.
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Spanish Riding School
The tradition of the classical dressage dates back to 1572 and has been perfected ever since. The Winter Riding School in the Imperial Palace is the center stage for the performance of he snow white Lipizzaner horses.
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Emerging Designers Lend an Old ‘Hood New Style
Making quite a splash on the fashion scene, a wave of smart boutiques refreshes the heart of the Neubau creative district.
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Hotel Bristol: Sophistication & Tradition
At Vienna's centrally located Hotel Bristol -- in the city center next to the Vienna State Opera -- experience grandeur from another era, and comfort from this one. Just steps from the bustling pedestrian zone, the Bristol provides a well-placed sanctuary, steeped in history. For devotees, don't miss the lovingly executed renovation.
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An Evening at the Hotel Sacher
Spend an evening at the venerable Hotel Sacher and make memories to last a lifetime. Enjoy a drink at the “Blaue Bar” where midnight blue and gold décor create a visually stunning and romantic setting for an evening at Vienna’s famous Hotel Sacher.
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Chic & Trendy Vienna Wine Bars
Austrian wine has catapulted to become the darling of the international wine world. If you are looking for chic, upbeat city nightlife, there is no better place to get an in-depth view of Austria’s dynamic, trendy wine scene than at the wine bars of Vienna!
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Secession
“To every age its art, to art its freedom” is the all encompassing artistic credo welcoming visitors to the famous golden-leave-globed building.
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Vienna’s newest museum: 21erHaus
A modernist masterpiece showcasing art of the 21st century just steps away from the Belvedere castle.
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