Vienna

Visit the Wien Museum and Musician's Memorials (free entry on Friday mornings and on Sundays), the Museum of Applied Arts (free admission on Saturdays) or the Central Cemetary, with 2.5 million graves Europe’s biggest cemetery.

Vienna’s gardens and parks invite you to enjoy nature, bike, skate or simply relax. The most picturesque gardens and parks are the garden of Schönbrunn Palace, the Prater and its recreational area, the garden of Belvedere Palace, the Vienna Woods and Vienna’s most famous recreation area: the Danube Island.

Public Transport in Vienna is free for kids on Sundays, public holidays and during Christmas holidays (between 24 Dec and 6 Jan) as well as summer school holidays (July & August).

Also enjoy Vienna’s best events such as the Danube Island Festival (in June, on the Danube Island), the Life Ball (in May, the event inside the ball rooms are for ticket holders only, however there are also big celebrations in the City Hall square), the Rainbow Parade as well as the New Year’s Eve Trail.

Museums & Locations

• Museum On Demand


• Roman Ruins: Excavation places

Festivals & Events

• Saturdays: Regimental Music by the Original Hoch- und Deutschmeister on the corner Graben & Kohlmarkt (May - October)


• Festival on Danube Island including Open-Air concert of the The Vienna Philharmonic (June)


• Music Film Festival in front of City Hall (July - September)


• Life Ball - Fashion show (May)


• Rainbow parade (June)


• Conzert for Europe in the Schönbrunn Palace gardens (3.06.2008)


• Vienna State Opera: live transmission on video-wall in front of the opera house (starting September 2007)


• Vienna Jazz Festival (23.06 - 6.07.2008)


• Wiener Festwochen opening (9.5.2008)


• Live Music in different Viennese Summer Hot-Spots: MuseumsQuartier, Strandbar Herrmann, Donauinsel-Copa Cagrana and along the Gürtelbögen (along U6 Underground)


• Choir Performances in Schönbrunn Palace Gardens: Voices of the World


• Advent choral concerts: Vienna City Hall (November - December)


• Church Concerts: Orgel um Acht in St. Michael, Organ concerts in St. Peter


• Concerts in Viennese Coffee Houses

Others

• City Bike - Tour (1 Hour)


• Tour guides in the National Park Donauaen


• Swiming in the old Danube river (sand, gravel, meadow beaches)


• Euro 2008 – Public viewing of all games (Rathausplatz – Ring – Heldenplatz)