Experiences in Vienna

Garden Palace Liechtenstein

- Walking through the opulent Garden Palace Liechtenstein, out of sight in the 9th district, surrounded by its baroque architecture and its lavish grounds is like sharing a secret with those who know and love the city, as not many of the Vienna’s guests are aware of this hidden marvel.

Wotruba Church

- Discovering the Wotruba Church and you’ll agree, the place is “beautifully odd” or even “alien” as it sits in a city renowned for its traditional, baroque architecture. The Wotruba Church is made up of 152 asymmetric concrete blocks that seems to skew the space in a brave and inspiring fashion.

Hermes Villa

- The "castle of dreams”, built for the Empress Elisabeth, is how Emperor Franz Josef described the Hermes Villa in the Lainzer Tiergarten. Does a visit here make us all dreamers, somnambulists adrift in this dream-like space?

Vienna University of Economics and Business

- Seeing the new campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business is like taking a breath of the new amid steeped tradition. This collage of modern architecture and contemporary styles, juxtaposes the older essence of the city. The campus’s bold style was planned by Zaha Hadid, NO.MAD architects and Crab Studio.

Old AKH (Vienna General Hospital)

- The former grounds of the Vienna General Hospital and the Campus of the University of Vienna are certainly places worth exploring. Aside several restaurants and cafes, the hospital’s old site remembers another era, a time when the Narrenturm or Fool’s Tower, a round building built in 1784, was used to accommodate mentally ill patients.

Servitenviertel

- The cultural quarter of Vienna Servitenviertel, in the 9th district is home to the Freud Museum. Tell us, how do you feel about that?

St. Stephen's Catehdral

- Visit the Cathedral Church of St. Stephen and experience the place where Vienna’s famous composers found hope, love, and inspiration. It was here Joseph Haydn sang in the choir as a young man and where Amadeus Mozart married Maria Constanze in 1782, after a scandalous romance. Each year Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is performed in honor of the composer whose funeral was held in the Cathedral just 10 months after he arrived in Vienna in 1741.

Schönbrunn Palace

- The Schönbrunn Palace is unforgettable. Once the summer palace to the empire’s Habsburg rulers, today the palace is 400 acres of charming gardens, opulent galleries, and impressive corridors that echo with the reverberations of remembrance.

Spanish Riding School

- Explore exquisite tradition at the Spanish Riding School where horses and their riders still train their signature dressage move, ‘air above the ground’, just as they have for over the last 400 years. The gracefulness of the school’s Lipizzan horse comes from their intelligence and gentle nature.

Hofburg Palace

- A trip to the winter residence of the once ruling Habsburgs, Hofburg Palace, is an inspired journey through time. Built and expanded over the centuries the palace’s evolving architecture remembers Vienna’s many historical eras and places that witnessed notable events, like the premier of Beethoven’s 8th symphony in the Redoute Wing.

Vienna City Hall

- As the city and empire modernized, this magnificent building was designed in the neo-Gothic style in 1883 as a reminder for the new age of the past’s heritage. For those wanting a stirring bird’s eye view of the city, all it takes is walking up 331 steps to the Hall’s tower.

Karlskirche

This church is like a memory of Europe’s greatest architectural marvels. The church’s design is an homage to other great churches on the continent. While its columns derive from those that once stood on the Temple in Jerusalem, its dome resembles those of the Pantheon and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and Les Invalides in Paris. Baroque elements in the cathedral draw on those found in Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Vienna Prater

- Vienna Prater remembers the happy sound of laughter as joy has echoed in Vienna’s amusement park for over a century. Filled with carousels, roller coasters and home of the Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel the park is as much a part of the city as its palaces and churches. The Ferris wheel was built in 1897 as part of Emperor Franz Josef’s golden jubilee. Experiencing jubilation and exhilaration are key to creating unforgettable moments.

Museum of Natural History and Museum of Fine Arts

- These museums are reminders of Vienna’s greatness and great experiences to make your own incredible memories. Commissioned by Emperor Franz Josef, both museums face each other on the famous Ring Road. The first holds 39 exhibit rooms and presents over 100,000 objects, showcasing Vienna’s love for exploration and knowledge. The Museum of Fine Arts’s magnificent collection includes works by Raphael, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Albertina

- Visiting the Albertina you’ll find an unforgettable collection of drawings, prints and paintings, including works by more of the world’s greatest artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Marc Chagall and Claude Monet.

Albertina Modern

- Exploring the Albertina Modern, the city’s new museum, and you’ll see why Vienna continues to be a center of art and culture. You’ll find that you can embrace the new and current trends in a city steeped in historical tradition as this museum’s focus is on contemporary art.

Leopold Museum

- See the extensive works of two of Austria’s most renowned artists, Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, at the Leopold Museum. The museum hosts Austrian works from the early 20th century, wonderfully demonstrating the transition from Art Nouveau to Expressionism.

Belvedere Palace

- This baroque palace was once home to Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It is both an UNESCO site and an art museum, showcasing works by Schiele and Klimt, including Klimt’s famous work Der Kuss (The Kiss).

MAK Museum

- This museum contains wonderful examples of craftsmanship and design, with an emphasis on architecture and contemporary art.