Excursions around Vienna and Austria
Walking Tour of Vienna
Discover Vienna's greatest sites and hidden gems with a friendly and informative local guids for a tour through a city you will never forget!
We will guide you along some of Vienna's hystorical sites such as The Ringstrasse, the imperial boulevard encircling the first district. St. Stephan's Cathedral as a symbol of the Vienniese identity. Learn more about Hitler's early history in Vienna trying to get in to the art academy. The Hofburg Palace and the Spanish Riding School, a reminder of the Habsburg dynasty.
Vienna City Tour
The Vienna City Tour will give you an overview of the most important sights of Vienna. You will see the Ringstraße, the street surrounding the center of Vienna and ist famous historical buildings and monuments. You can take a look at the Museum of Applied Arts, the State Opera House, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Natural History, the House of Parliament, the Burgtheater and the City Hall, the University as well as the Votiv Church.
The highlight of this tour is the gorgeous Schönbrunn Palace, the summer residence of the Habsburg family. You will see the rooms where Maria Theresia and Kaiser Franz Joseph lived and worked. On your way back to the center, you will see Belvedere Palace, the summer residence of Prince Eugen
Excursion to Vienna Woods – Mayerling
Heiligenkreuz –Baden- Mayerling-Subterranean Lake. Lichtenstein Castle
This half-day excursion will take you to the most beautiful parts of the Vienna Woods. Starting at the Roman City of Baden with its thermal springs you will pass the romantic valley Helenental on your way to the former Mayerling hunting lodge. Crown-Prince Rudolph, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph, committed suicide there in 1889, together with Baronesse Vetsera. The next stop is the medieval cloister of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz which houses the remains of the last Babenberger. Driving by the Höldrichsmühle where Franz Schubert composed his song "The Lindentree", you arrive at the Seegrotte Hinterbrühl, where you go on a boat-ride on the largest subterranean lake in Europe. On the way back to Vienna, you will pass the Liechtenstein Castle.
Excursion to Salzburg
Mozart – Festival Town – Sound of Music
On your way to Salzburg you will pass through the wonderful landscape of the Salzkammergut, with its beautiful lakes and impressive mountains, the area where Emperor Franz Joseph and his family used to spend their summer holidays. The trips takes you along Lake Traunsee, Lake Fuschl and Lake Wolfgang, where the memories of the Edelweiss-Song from the movie Sound of Music may come to your mind. Finally you arrive to Salzburg, the birth town of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After lunch you will visit the most important sights of Salzburg: the Cathedral, the Festival Hall, St. Peter´s Abbey Church and its graveyards (tomb of Mozart´s sister Nannerl) as well as Mozart´s birthplace in the Getreidegasse. You will see the horse-pond and the marvelous gardens of Mirabell Palace and get a fantastic view of the Fortess Hohensalzburg.
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