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2011 REASoNS FoR VIENNA
Every year, one thought occupies the
editorial team more than any other
when it comes to compiling this journal
for you: “We must be prepared
to leave copy on the cutting room
floor.” The big question is always
what to leave out. We have to decide
which events, news and interesting
angles can’t be touched on at all for
space reasons. Iamalways pleased
to see the jockeying for position that
surrounds this publication. It shows
how lively Vienna is, and how much
is going on in the city. It also demonstrates
that Vienna understands the
importance not just of preserving its
beauty and rich cultural heritage, but
of using and revitalizing it to create
new visitor experiences.
Vienna is truly unique, and offers
something special every day. If you
want to make sure that you don’t
miss out on any of the city’s attractions
Istrongly recommend visiting
www.vienna.info. The site will give
you 2011 great reasons for Vienna in
2011 –ifnot more!
Iwish you apleasurable and inspiring
read as you browse the topics that
made it into this year’s Vienna Journal,
and hope we will be seeing you
soon. Welcome to Vienna!
Norbert Kettner
Vienna Tourist Board

2,141 bistro cafés, patisseries, espresso
bars, café restaurants and classic
coffee houses await visitors to the
capital. The average Viennese drinks
2.6 cups of coffee each day, and every
third person visits his or her favorite
café two or three times aweek. Coffee
and everything that goes with it
shapes life in the city and the local
culture. The term “coffee house”
stands for alot more than you might
suspect at first.
ThE VIENNESE
CoFFEE hoUSE –
MICRoCoSM
AND lIVING
RooM
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VIENNESE
CUISINE AND
VIENNA’S WINES
Vienna is the only city in the world
to have given its name to aparticular
style of cookery. And with good reason.
From time immemorial the city’s
chefs have used influences from
many different countries to compose
new dishes and create avaried cuisine
that appeals to the imagination
and all the senses. The fact that you
can enjoy it with aglass of the local
wine –there are over 700 hectares of
vineyards inside the city limits –may
also have something to do with the
quality of Viennese Cuisine.
Green spaces account for more than
half of the greater Vienna area –
51 percent, to be precise. They include
the world-famous Vienna
Woods, baroque formal gardens, the
Prater park presented to the people
by the Emperor, and the various
parks included in the original plans
for Vienna’s showpiece Ringstrasse
boulevard. Not to mention 20 th -century
developments such as opening
up the Danube beaches and the creation
of numerous recreation zones,
nature reserves, and sport and leisure
facilities.
URBAN AND
GREEN SPACES
IN PERFECT
hARMoNY
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IMPERIAl
VIENNA –
DREAMS AND
REAlITY
“When it comes to the harking back
to the past, the Viennese are world
champions. But the city has stopped
playing its sweet, melancholic dirge,
and instead it is trilling merrily along
in an upbeat major. The former imperial
residence hankers after past
greatness like no other major city, yet
it also has amodern, cult appeal and
exudes baroque sensuality,” wrote
Monika Czernin in the Merian travel
guide. We couldn’t have put it better
ourselves!
Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Sigmund
Freud, ludwig Wittgenstein,
Josef hoffmann, Arthur Schnitzler
and Gustav Mahler –just some of
the big names behind Vienna’s artistic
renaissance around 1900. These
geniuses have had an enduring influence
on modern life, and evidence
of their legacy can still be found all
over Vienna in 2011. The same goes
for contemporary artists in the city
today.
VIENNESE
MoDERNISM
AND
MoDERNISM IN
VIENNA
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MUSIC IS IN ThE
AIR
The fact that music is in the air in
Vienna is not just down to the capital’s
world-famous opera houses,
concert halls and musical theaters –
festivals, outdoor concerts, the ball
season, traditional heuriger wine tavern
music, live opera broadcasts and,
increasingly, clubs and dance locations
all help set the tone of the city.
The 5.2-kilometer-long Ringstrasse
encircles Vienna’shistoric city center.
The creation of this showpiece boulevard
following the demolition of
the medieval city walls from 1858
marked anew chapter in the history
of the capital, and not just in terms
of urban planning. The Ringstrasse is
the ideal place to study and experience
one and ahalf centuries of cultural
and social change in Vienna and
Central Europe.
ASTREET,
AN ERA,
AFEElING
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FoRM AND
FUNCTIoN
“To love and beautify something
is one and the same thing.” These
words come from Robert Musil, one
of the most influential German-language
authors of the 20 th century and
aconnoisseur of the Austrian soul.
Countless Viennese manufacturers
and shops follow this maxim as they
apply their traditions and expertise to
the art of making the objects that surround
us more beautiful.
Contents3
What is aFaxi? Do Ireally want to
follow in the footsteps of Josefine
Mutzenbacher? Where will Vienna’s
boats and wheels take me? Turn to
pages 12 and 13 for the answers to
questions like these, and information
on some of the countless ways to
experience Viennese joie de vivre at
first hand.
DISCoVERING
VIENNA, WITh A
TWIST!
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2011 IN VIENNA
This page contains even more recommendations
of what to do in Vienna
in 2011. From the New Year’s Trail
to Christmas markets, from summer
concerts to picnics in the park,
and from Sisi’s summer palace to
the stage where Johann Strauss once
played –and much else besides.

MICRoCoSM
AND PRIVATE
lIVING RooM
The right coffee house for
everywalkoflife ...
oK, coffee is drunk all over the world,
and there are other places where
people know how to make acup of
coffee. The Viennese cannot claim
to have invented coffee. But there is
no denying that they have perfected
coffee house culture –and the Vienna
café shows why the words for “culture”
and “cult” are so close to one
another. There are endless possibilities
to combine varieties (a melange,
einspänner or schale gold?), settings
(classic 19 th century, art nouveau or
contemporary?), side orders (pair of
frankfurters, slice of Sachertorte or
goulash?), occupations (seeing and
being seen, reading the papers or
chatting) and choices of company.
The Viennese coffee house is acosmos
that has yet to be charted in full
–and every cup of coffee you enjoy
in Vienna will taste alittle different
to the one before.
Architect Gregor Eichinger
created an “aromatic coffee
jar” for the MAK Design
Shop. These jars (designed
by Oskar Strnad), filled with
freshly roasted coffee beans
release an intense aroma
when they are opened.
Youcan go for marble at the Café Central
(above), wood paneling and art at the Hawelka
(left), terrace and art nouveau at the Palmenhaus,
mirrors at the Savoy (both right). But it is
more than the interiors that sets Vienna coffee
houses apart.

One of many classic items of furniture originally
created for aViennese coffee house –the
bentwood chair that Adolf Loos designed for
the Café Museum in 1899. Today it is on display
at the Hofmobiliendepot, one of the largest
furniture museums in the world.
MUCh MoRE
ThAN JUST
CoFFEE CoFFEE hoUSE...
Vienna’scafés
hold amirror to
its history, soul,
people and culture
“Because Mr hawelka does not renovate,”
is writer heimito von Doderer’s
explanation for the enduring popularity
of the legendary Café hawelka.
And even if that is not entirely true
of the hawelka, the fact is that every
Viennese coffee house has its own
unique character that barely changes
over the years, and leaves alasting
impression on its patrons. Traditions
are passed down from one generation
to the next and closely guarded like
family secrets. For instance, at the
hawelka talking until the sun goes
down (or up) is the order of the day.
It was closed for 43 years, but that’snot
enough to keep atrue institution like
the Café Central down. Apopular artists’
café, the Central opened in 1868
in what is now known as the Palais
Ferstel –one of the city’smost modern
buildings at the time. The café, one of
the centers of intellectual life in the
capital, shut up shop in 1943 and did
not reopen until 1986. But it has been
business as usual ever since: “a good
mind behind every paper,every argument
aliterary gem, and every drop of
cream aworld view.”
Vienna’s coffee houses are also living
architectural history. The country’s
leading architects are well represented.
The interior of the Café Wunderer
was created by Josef hoffmann, and
oswald haerdtl designed the Café
A new spin on apple
strudel: strudel: Xocolat has used used
the classic ingredients of
this highlight highlight of Viennese Viennese
pastry
cooking to conjure
up anew a new kind ofconfec- tionary (handmade, like
everything they do).
Prückel. Even Adolf loos’ American
Bar, aprototype of today’s nightclub
that has been copied around the
world, adapted classic coffee house architecture
to the demands of nightlife.
Coffee culture in Vienna dictates that
no cultural institution can be without
its own café. The Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Museum of Applied Art/
Contemporary Art (MAK), the Jewish
Museum, the Burgtheater, the MuseumsQuartier
and even the home of
the lipizzan thoroughbreds all have
cafés, and each is an institution in its
own right. The Viennese know how
to combine business and pleasure,
and the precise destination is always
decided at the last minute according
to personal preferences.
Not even the imperial family was immune
to the passion for coffee houses
and patisseries. This is reflected in
the number of establishments honored
with the title of “purveyor to
the imperial court”, many of which,
including Gerstner,Demel, Sluka and
heiner,are still open to this day.
...with aview:Coffee at 160m altitude
(and 360 degree views of the city) can
only mean the Danube Tower, completed
in 1964 and Vienna’s tallest
building.
...as astatement: Their terraces are
just two meters apart but the Café
Korb (*1904) and Café Delias (*2002)
could hardly be more different. one
is consciously artsy and quirky, the
other abastion of urban chic. Some
people have even been known to
cross the invisible border from time
to time.
...alternative: operngasse is home to
an elegant salon de thé which provides
afrancophile alternative to the
home grown coffee house.
...crossovers: The trendy Freihaus
district is home to Point of Sale
which is aViennese take on the deli,
and Kiosk which successfully combines
coffee shop atmosphere with
typical sausage stand products.
...en rose:Bright pink can only mean
one thing in Vienna – one of the
28 branches of Aida. The chain features
original fifties espresso bar decor
and the famous iced punch cakes
–presumably the inspiration behind
the corporate color scheme.
...and afeast for the eyes: Marcus of
the Café Marcusplatz is widely rated
as the city’s best looking coffee shop
CoFFEE FoR
All ThE SENSES
The genuine Viennese coffee house
atmosphere is inextricably linked to
the city, but some aspects do travel
well.
Take chocolate coffee beans and Empress
Elisabeth’s favorite, candied
violets from Demel. And probably
the smallest sweets in the world,
unchanged since 1928, still come in
Wiener Werkstätte designed packaging.
The Viennnese coffee house – microcosm and living room5
owner.But we’ll leave that to each individual
to decide for him or herself.
...with asurvival instinct: originally
intended as a temporary solution
when it opened in 1992, the café at
the Kunsthalle Karlsplatz soon became
afirm favorite, and is still going
strong now.
...for Dr Jekyll &MrHyde:Afavorite
hangout for the gay and lesbian scene
in the evenings, the opulent Café Savoy
leads adouble life. on Saturdays
it turns into afavorite family meeting
place thanks to its proximity to the
flea market.
Aroma researcher and praline artist Michael
Diewald creates his Blühendes Konfekt (blossoming
confectionary) from wild fruits, herbs
and dried flowers. The seasonal range includes
lime and elderberry marzipan in turmeric,
camomile flower chocolates and chocolate
mint leaves.
Then there are unusual echoes of
abygone age at places like Knopfkönig,
where asupplier of buttons
and zips by appointment to the court
began selling his goods back in 1844.
Virtually unchanged to this day, it
is now home to Schokoladekönig
which sells cakes, confectionary and
pralines.
And there are the insights offered by
star chef Christian Petz at the Xocolat
workshop where visitors can watch
the chocolatiers at work or sign up
for acourse to learn the art of pastry
and chocolate making. Book early to
avoid disappointment.
late check out is the apt title of aCD
which ventures into the worlds of
jazz, bossa nova, hip-hop, soul, broken
beat and electronic music. This
appetizer for Austrian music was
released to coincide with the Café
Drechsler’s 90 th birthday. The legendary
café is not just famous for its
opening hours (it only closes from
2–3 a.m.) and amixed crowd (everyone
from market traders to party
girls can be found there). ATerence
Conran &Partners makeover has created
acafé for the 21 st century that is
unique and familiar at once.
ANAToMY oF
AN INSTITUTIoN
Virtually every Viennese bar has a
touch of the café about it –one more
reason for the city’s legendary congeniality.
The Vienna coffee-house
has the following variants:
•Café-Konditorei /Acelebration of
all things sweet. Uncontested doyenne
–former purveyors to the imperial
court, Demel.
•Café-Restaurant /This is often a
gross understatement of the culinary
case, as many cafés have a
loyal following thanks to the quality
of their food. Examples range from
Zum Schwarzen Kameel (which
runs the gamut from luxury restaurant
to snack bar) to trendy Babu,
which is one of many places along
the Gürtel beltway – the newest
center of city nightlife.
•Nacht-Café /aka bar.Decked out in
red plush wallpaper, the Eden Bar
is atrue classic. The Volksgarten
disco club is acontemporary variation
on the theme, and has long
been aMecca for the Vienna party
crowd.
•Tanz-Café / There are very few
genuine Tanzcafés (dance cafés) left
today, as most of them have since
been rebranded as discos or clubs.
At least the Tanzcafé Jenseits is not
ashamed of the name –this former
red-light bar is a magnet for late
night party people.
And that’s before you even mention
concert cafés, bridge cafés, internet
cafés and the rest.
“The sidewalk cafés reopen
and Vienna emerges
from its slumber without
fail on the first sunny
Saturday in March each
year. A new life begins.
Ice coffee comes back on
the menu. People wander
from one coffee house to
the next in aday brimming
with fresh discoveries.”

Perhaps it is because of the profusion of flowers in Vienna that
the floral designs are one of the glories of the Art Nouveau movement.
The Blumenball at City Hall also has an illustrious history.
January14, 2011 marks the 89 th installment.
GREEN,
ENVIRoNMENTAllY
FRIENDlY AND
lIVEABlE
Atotal of 850 parks and 1,100 km of
cycle paths, eco-friendly hospitality
at 81 environmentally certified restaurants,
and clear spring water direct
from the tap. Where can you get
all that? In Vienna, one of the most
livable cities on earth!
Statistically speaking, there are
120 square meters of green space for
each of the Vienna’s 1.7 million inhabitants.
With open space making
up 51 percent of its total area, the
Austrian capital is one of the world’s
greenest big cities. There is the perfect
park to suit every taste. highlights
include the formal French gardens
at Schönbrunn Palace, the refined
English-garden-style Stadtpark, the
world’s oldest Alpine garden with
some 4,000 species of Alpine flora
at the Belvedere Palace, 400 varieties
of roses in the Volksgarten, one
of the city’s oldest surviving baroque
formal gardens at the Augarten, the
10-m-high treetop trail at Schönbrunn
Zoo, and the romantic ponds
in the Türkenschanzpark.
Leisure and
Relaxation
over acentury ago Vienna’s mayor The Donau Auen National Park was
Karl lueger laid the groundwork for created to protect one of the largest
a19,000 hectare greenbelt, which vir- natural wetlands in Central Europe.
tually encircles the city today. A third of the park is accounted
for by the lobau in Vienna, an area
In 2005 the Vienna Woods were which incorporates parts of the New
designated a biosphere reserve by Danube and the Danube Island.
UNESCo –atitle given to outstanding
cultural and natural landscapes.
An area the size of 110,000 football
pitches provides a habitat for
2,000 types of plants, 150 species of
breeding birds and many other endangered
animals.

VIENNA
AND WATER
The Danube has always shaped
Vienna. Immortalized in Johann
Strauss’s Blue Danube Waltz, Vienna
is indelibly linked with the river
in the minds of people all over the
world. The Danube and the 21-km
Danube island –originally constructed
as part of the city’s flood defenses
–plays aspecial role in everyday
life in the capital. Vienna also has the
Danube to thank for the Graveyard of
the Unknown. This burial ground is
named for 104 bodies washed ashore
at the confluence of the Danube and
the Danube Canal, most of which
could not be identified.
But there is more to water in Vienna
than just the Danube:
•17 million years ago Vienna was
surrounded by salt water –itwas in
midst of the Pannonian sea.
•Vienna has 29 wetland lakes, and
four rivers and canals, as well as
29 streams in the Vienna Woods,
and about 40 ponds and lakes.
•The 60,000-square-meter Therme
Wien spa is unique in Europe. It is
surrounded by the Kurpark and the
Kurkonditorei oberlaa, which gets
through some 16.5 metric tons of
chocolate each year.
•Twospringwater pipelines from the
Schneeberg, Rax, Schneealpe and
hochschwab regions supply Vienna
with 400,000 cubic meters of fresh
spring water each day.
•Vienna’s spring water also flows
from 700 drinking water fountains.
The astronomical fountain
on Schwarzenbergplatz recalls the
first Vienna spring water main. The
365 small jets around the rim of
the basin symbolize the number of
days in the year,the 12 high jets the
months, the 24 low jets the number
of hours in the day, and afurther
30 jets the number of days in the
month. Vienna’s 54 monumental
fountains shape the cityscape. The
marriage fountain on hoher Markt
is one of the city’s most important
baroque fountains.
•Vienna has four times as many
bridges as Venice – 1,716 in all.
The bijoux Konstantinsteg in the
Prater Park, completed in 1873, is
Vienna’soldest bridge.
•The 1910 Strudlhofstiege, with its
curved stone steps and green balustrades,
is acharming example of
Viennese art nouveau. The centerpiece
is acopper fish with water
gushing out of its mouth.
oRGANIC
DElIGhTS
Vienna is the right destination for
holidaymakers in search of health
and sustainability. From organic
body care products to fair-trade fashion
boutiques, and organic stores and
delis –Vienna has it all. The 81 businesses
that carry the Ecolabel contribute
to the quality of life in the city
by pursuing policies such as energy
saving and organic purchasing. The
Vienna City Council is one of the
largest organic farmers in Austria.
Its three organic farms have over
860 hectares of land.
Sustainable fashion tips
•Göttin des Glücks:
www.goettindesgluecks.com
•Modus Vivendi:
www.modusvivendi.at
•herr und Frau Klein:
www.herrundfrauklein.com
•Prumo: www.prumo.at
•ebenBERG: www.ebenberg.at
•GuterStoff: http://guterstoff.com
•pagabei: www.pagabei.at
•Terra Plana: www.terraplana.com
Sustainable food tips
•Tewa organic restuarant:
www.tewa672.com
•Eating and cooking at Wrenkh:
www.wiener-kochsalon.com
•Saint Charles Alimentary pharmacy
restaurant: www.saint.info
•Weltcafé: www.weltcafe.at
•Experience life as afarmer at the
landgut Wien Cobenzl:
www.landgutcobenzl.at
•homemade bread at Motto am
Fluss, at the Vienna City riverboat
terminal
VIENNA IS ABED
oF RoSES
Wherever you go, Vienna is in bloom.
The hirschstetten nursery alone cultivates
some 300,000 spring, 1.4 million
summer and 50,000 autumn
flowers, as well as one million bulbs,
135 trees and 11,000 shrubs each
year.Its rosarium is home to 1,700 varieties
of roses. Magnolia trees go
back along way in the Austrian capital.
one particularly old specimen
stands near the Strauss memorial in
the Stadtpark. Planted towards the
end of the 19 th century, it is still flowering
to this day.
AMoNUMENT
To MoThER
NATURE
Natural monuments can be protected
in Vienna by acity law passed on
July 5, 1935. Today there are more
than 400 natural monuments in the
city.
•The “Thousand-Year-Old Yew” at
Rennweg 12, in the third district, is
Vienna’s oldest natural monument.
It is the sole survivor from an ancient
yew grove planted in Roman
times.
•The courtyard of Schlossgasse 15
in the 5 th district is home to one of
ABuddha’s Hand citron in the 300-year-old Federal Gardens collection, which originated
with the Imperial orangeries.
Urban and green spaces in perfect harmony7
the last examples of Maria Theresa‘s
mulberry trees. her affection for
these trees was chiefly due to its
suitability for breeding silkworms.
•The 750-meter-long Schönbrunner
Allee leading from Schönbrunn Palace
to hetzendorf Palace goes back
to the latter years of Maria Theresa’s
reign and that of Joseph II.
•Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart regularly
passed the oriental plant (Platanus
orientalis) at Rennweg 14 in the
3 rd district on his way to give piano
lessons in the house next door.
“The intoxicating aroma of hundreds
of citrus plants fills the orangery
at Schönbrunn Palace. A
large number of plants from the
Federal Gardens’ historic collection,
some of them over 180 years
old, will be on show during the
Vienna Citrus Days (May 13–15,
2011). horticultural experts will
be on hand to provide information
and give gardening tips.”

“RESTRAINING
ARTISTS IS A
CRIME” EGoN SChIElE
“Art cannot be modern; art is
timeless.”
Egon Schiele
Apair of major museum exhibitions
in Vienna during 2011 are dedicated
to the work of one of the central artistic
personalities in turn-of-thecentury
Vienna; Egon Schiele (1890-
1918). Along with Gustav Klimt,
Schiele was one of the most famous
Austrian painters of the 20 th century
and pioneer who paved the way for
Modernism. Schiele’s works will be
on display in the baroque Belvedere
palace from January to June 2011
and in the Leopold Museum in the
MuseumsQuartier (MQ) from September
2011 to January 2012.
Although the whole of Europe was a
hive of creativity between 1890 and
1910/1920 some of the most important
discoveries and innovations of
the age were made in the Austrian
capital. The Wiener Moderne period
is associated with names such
as Sigmund Freud, ludwig Wittgenstein,
otto Wagner, Adolf loos, Josef
hoffmann, Arthur Schnitzler,Gustav
Mahler and Arnold Schönberg.
Egon Schiele also belongs to this list
of luminaries. At the age of sixteen
he became astudent at the Academy
of Fine Arts only to leave again two
years later, disappointed by the dogmatic
teaching methods. The art collector
heinrich Benesch described
Schiele as “slightly shy, alittle timid
and alittle self-conscious.” he was a
serious character without being dark
or melancholy; “Schiele was not one
to let things get him down.”
In 1909 agroup of young artists associated
with Schiele, the Neukunstgruppe,
caused astir with its hotly
debated debut exhibition. “Nobody
may ever find out that Ihave seen this
filth,” the heir to the throne, Archduke
Franz Ferdinand is supposed
to have said. In 1912 Schiele spent
24 days in prison for the distribution
of obscene drawings.
Straightened circumstances and a
suggestion by the famous architect
otto Wagner led Schiele to paint
portraits of personalities from the
Viennese arts scene. he was encouraged
above all by the highly successful
Gustav Klimt, 28 years his senior.
The result was afriendship and
meeting of kindred artistic spirits that
Schiele commemorated in his painting
The hermits (1912) which is now
on display in the leopold Museum.
At the 49 th exhibition of the Vienna
Secession in 1918, Schiele had
19 paintings and 29 drawings on
show in the main gallery. It was his
first artistic and material success.
only afew months later, inoctober
1918, he died from the Spanish influenza,
three days after the death of
his wife Edith, who was six months
pregnant.
Schiele’s international recognition
owes much to the work of the Austrian
gallerist otto Kallir and his
St. Etienne gallery in New York,
as well as Viennese doctor Rudolf
leopold, who began collecting the
artist’s works in the 1950s, atime
when his oeuvre was less wellknown.
leopold’scomprehensive art
collection is now part of the leopold
Museum and includes 44 paintings
and some 180 works on paper. The
Albertina also has numerous Schiele
drawings and watercolours. It also
manages the Egon Schiele Archive
which has an extensive collection
of documentary materials, letters,
sketchbooks and early works.
Schiele created around 300 paintings
and between two and three
thousand works on paper during his
short life. Today they command top
prices. Self-Portrait with Checkered
Shirt, for example, was sold in New
York in 2007 for USD 11.353 million.
The current auction record for
aSchiele oil painting was posted in
2006, when Einzelne häuser, häuser
mit Bergen fetched USD 22.4 million.

VIENNA’S
STRoNG WoMEN
It’s high time –and now is the best
opportunity –toget to know these
influential, individual and exciting
women. Vienna proudly presents:
•VALIE EXPORT (*1940). Amedia
artist who is untiring in her struggle
for an equal and gender-neutral
evaluation of media themes. In the
process she interrogates the communicative
and cultural codification
of the human body. The exhibition
in the Belvedere (16 october
2010 to 30 January 2011) brings
together more than 40 years of her
work including performances, photography,
film and media installations
in acomprehensive overview
of her entire output.
VALIE EXPORT„Einkreisung“ (Encircling), 1976
©VBK, Vienna, 2010
•Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997). Kogelnik
is considered Austria’s most
important Pop artist, although she
always resisted that label because of
her European roots. Andy Warhol
and Roy lichtenstein were among
her friends. The subtle and joyful
works of this exceptional woman
challenge traditional gender portrayals.
“Art comes from artifice”,
she once said. Kunsthalle Wien is
exhibiting Kiki Kogelnik in an international
context as part of the
exhibition “Power Up! – Female
Pop Artists” (5 November 2010 to
20 February 2011).
Kiki Kogelnik with Loverboy,
Atelier New York, ca. 1965 ©Kiki Kogelnik
Foundation Wien New York
•Eugenie Schwarzwald (1872–1940).
Schwarzwald was –from 1911 –the
director of Austria’s only school
that prepared girls for university.
The teaching staff included oskar
Kokoschka, Adolf loos and Arnold
Schönberg. Vicky Baum, Alice
herdan-Zuckmayer, Anna Freud
and helene Weigel were among her
best-known students. She worked
to create a“school of joy” under
the motto “boredom is poison.”
The Jewish Museum Vienna is hosting
aSchwarzwald solo show from
24 November 2010 to March 2011.
•Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957),
My Ullmann (1905-1995), Elisabeth
Karlinsky (1905-1994). During
the 1920s these three emancipated
women developed Austria’s most
important contribution to the international
avant-garde of the time.
As students at Vienna’s school for
applied arts (Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule)
under Franz Cizek they
created Viennese Kineticism, an
eclectic mix of Expressionism, Cubism,
Constructivism and Futurism.
Their work is on show at the Belvedere
from February to June 2011.
•Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003). Art
magazine described the work of
Jürgenssen as “exquisite, sophisticated,
elegant” and “chic, even
urbane.” As early as the late 1960s
Birgit Jürgenssen began subtly and
subversively questioning social
dogmas and the cultural construction
of femininity. The Bank Austria
Kunstforum presents work by
this feminist pioneer from 16 December
2010 to 6March 2011.
•Eva Schlegel (*1960). Schlegel’s
photographs, objects, installations
and architectural interventions
have made her one of the most successful
Austrian artists of our time.
She has participated at the Venice
Biennale on a number of occasions.
“In Between” is the name Eva
Schlegel has chosen for her exhibition
at MAK that runs from 8December
2010 to 1May 2011.
FAVoRITE
SCANDAlS
In Vienna an endearing nickname is
the best proof of acceptance. Sometimes
it is afine line between agreat
scandal and heartfelt love. For example
…
•The “House without Eyebrows”.
In 1911 the building on Michaeler
Platz caused a sensation because
it dispensed with historistic or Art
Nouveau ornamentation. Even the
window lintels (the “eyebrows”)
were bare. Emperor Franz Joseph,
so the story goes, had the curtains
in the palace across the street closed
permanently to shield him from the
view. Today it is unquestionable
one of the most important buildings
of the early Modernist era.
Eva Schlegel, In Between, 2009 ©VBK, Vienna, 2010
Birgit Jürgenssen, Untitled (Self with Small
Fur), 1974 ©Estate of Birgit Jürgenssen VBK,
Vienna, 2010
•The “Cabbage”. The young architect
Joseph Maria olbrich designed
this exhibition space for the avantgarde
artist group figureheaded by
Gustav Klimt. But when the city
fathers saw the designs they withdrew
the offer of the original site
on the Ringstrasse, and only gave
approval for a“temporary building
that was to last no more than ten
years”. That was in 1898. Today the
Secession building is regarded as a
key work of Viennese Art Nouveau
or Jugendstil, in particular thanks
to the golden floral dome affectionately
known as the “cabbage”. It is
now one of the city’smost frequently
photographed buildings.
Viennese Modernism and Modernism in Vienna9
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783),
Zweiter Schnabelkopf. Messerschmidt
was aprofessor at the Vienna Academy
from 1769 to 1774 and created afamous
series of 69 “character heads”. Fifty-four
have survived with sixteen original heads
and thirteen plaster casts in the Belvedere
collection.
•The “Jonas Reindl” (reindl: Viennese
for “cooking pot”). Franz Jonas
was Mayor of Vienna when this pioneering
public transport exchange
was opened in 1961. The tramway
loop and underpass below the Ring
helped acquaint Vienna with the
idea of an underground rail system.
The shape of the entry ramp reminded
the Viennese of acasserole
dish. Today the Schottentor station
is a protected historical structure
and around 154,000 passengers use
it every day.
•The “Dreimäderlhaus” (The House
of the Three Girls). Awealthy Viennese
family with three attractive
daughters engaged the young composer
Franz Schubert as amusic tutor.Asaresult
the house at Mölkersteig
1 became a meeting place
for Viennese art-lovers, and the
vivacious young ladies apparently
became popular muses for artists.
This was all too much for the prim
and proper Viennese at the beginning
of the nineteenth century. The
magic of the ladies has survived,
along with the house that was built
in 1803 on asection of Vienna’scity
walls.
Museums at Night. “Vienna, anight in
october and almost 200,000 visitors
at around 100 cultural institutions including
star attractions such as the Albertina,
the Kunsthistorisches and the
Natural history Museum as well as
specialist collections like the Imperial
Furniture Collection or the Funeral
Museum and Torture Museum. The
long Night of the Museums.”

The “Markart style”, named after the
painter Hans Makart (1840–1884),
is not only the name of an artistic
movement, it is also synonymous
with the spirit of late 19 th -century
Vienna.
Pomp, plush and abit on top –this
sums up the life and work of aman
who left an indelible mark on Austrian
art in the second half of the
19 th century. Makart is widely regarded
as the key painter of the Ringstrasse
period. Aversatile decorative
artist, successful businessman and
bon vivant, Markart embodied the
spirit of the Gründerzeit era. The Belvedere
is showing a representative
cross-section of his work from June to
october 2011.
Makart, who headed the school of
historical painting at the Vienna
Academy of Fine Arts from 1878,
was heavily influenced by Titian and
Rubens. “Drama, baby!” could have
been his personal motto, as everything
he did had astrong theatrical
bent. In 1879 Makart’s reputation
earned him aspecial honor when he
was entrusted with the organization
of alavish procession –attended by
several hundred people in opulent
costumes –tomark the silver wedding
anniversary of Emperor Franz
Joseph and Empress Sisi. There is
a statue commemorating the artist,
who died in 1884, in the Stadtpark
on Parkring. Makart’s influence on
Vienna (and later artists such as
Gustav Klimt) is in evidence along
the entire length of the Ringstrasse
boulevard.
Hans Makart’sportraits, such as this one of his
favorite sitter,his cousin Clothide Beer (ca. 1874),
shaped the ideal of female beauty of his age.
A
STREET,
AN ERA,
A FEElING
This renaissance costume, designed by Hans
Makart and Franz Gaul (shown today at
the Austrian Theater Museum) was worn
by Charlotte Wolter at the Hofburgtheater
on 10 May 1879. The actress was famed for
her costumes which were always her own.
Makart’sportrait of the celebrated diva –
currently in the Wien Museum –became an
icon of the Viennese belle époque.

PAlACE lIVING,
ThEN AND NoW
Once home to the nobility and the
rich, most of the palaces that line the
Ringstrasse now serve very different
purposes, as illustrated by the examples
below.
on 20 December 1857, Emperor
Franz Joseph approved the construction
of anew showpiece boulevard
for the capital. In the decades that followed
the opulent Ringstrasse boulevard
took shape. This also triggered
a rush among the aristocracy and
upper echelons of the middle class
to be among the first to build agrand
house at this new top address. And
there they remained until the end
of empire called time on their dolce
vita. The original owners are mostly
long forgotten, but the palaces are
still standing, and now have awide
variety of occupants.
Archduke Ludwig Viktor’s palace
on the corner of Schubertring and
Schwarzenbergplatz is today home to
the Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz.
Constructed between 1863 and 1866,
the building now houses one of the
stages of the famed Vienna Burgtheater.
Astone’sthrow away, at Schwarzenbergplatz
2, is the Palais Wiener von
Welten.The space in front of the palace
on the Ringstrasse is particularly
interesting as it contains Vienna’s
smallest vineyard, which measures
just afew square meters. Each year
NATURE AND ART,
SIDE BY SIDE
The imposing twin buildings that
stand opposite one another on the
Ring are among the boulevard’s best
known landmarks. The Natural history
Museum (NhM) and Kunsthistorisches
Museum (KhM), built to
plans by architects Gottfried Semper
and Karl Freiherr von hasenauer,
opened in 1889 and 1891, respectively.
The 16 million bricks used to
build the Natural history Museum
were all supplied by the famous Drasche
brickworks in the south of the
City.
These two museums are an Aladdin’s
cave of treasures. here are just afew
of the highlights:
Once astock exchange
trading room and then
asports venue, today
the Grosser Ferstelsaal
in the Palais Ferstel is
one of Vienna’sfinest
halls.
the mayor of Vienna harvests the
grapes in person; they yield around
50 bottles of wine.
Palais Wertheim (built from 1864–
1868) is directly opposite. In 1910 it
was transformed into an office and
residential building, and in 1977 it
welcomed the first Austrian branch
of an international burger chain.
The former Palais Lieben-Auspitz on
Dr.-Karl-lueger-Ring, whose former
residents include writer Berta Zuckerkandl,
is definitely worth taking time
over.The ground floor is home to the
famous Café Landtmann, the perfect
place for adelicious pastry washed
down with a mélange or perhaps
a kleiner brauner. Famous patrons
over the years include Gustav Mahler
and Sigmund Freud. With wonderful
views of the Burgtheater and City
hall it is ideal for aquick break during
atour of Ringstrasse.
www.landtmann.at
•The KhM has 12 paintings by
Dutch Renaissance painter Pieter
Bruegel the Elder –the world‘s largest
and most important collection of
his works.
•The Collection of Greek and Roman
antiquities, featuring sculptures,
bronzes, glassware and
golden treasures from the third
century BC to 1,000 AD, is one of
the most important of its kind. The
KhM’s Egyptian and Near Eastern
Collection, with its holdings of antiquities
from the old Kingdom,
is among the largest of its kind in
the world. The NhM has one of
the largest collections of “types” of
any museum in the world. Atype
One of the most striking buildings on the Ringstrasse: the State Opera
House, built between 1861–1869 to plans by August
Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll.
is defined as aspecimen or series of
specimens on which ataxonomic
species or subspecies is based –in
some ways comparable to the international
prototype meter bar. The
NhM’s millipede collection alone
comprises more than 2,000 types.
While not all specimens are on display,
they are available to researchers
all over the world.
•The 50 perfectly executed, true-tolife
glass models of invertebrates
completed by leopold and Rudolf
Blaschka for the NhM between the
1860s and the 1930s are aunique
highlight.
www.khm.at,
www.nhm-wien.ac.at
Traditionally held
in May at City Hall,
the Life Ball is a
celebration of life and
love. Each year around
40,000 people attend
the opening ceremony
which takes on the
section of the Ring
between City Hall and
the Burgtheater.
VIENNA’S
STUNNING
TRAFFIC ARTERY
Over the years, the Ringstrasse has
become one of Vienna’s busiest thoroughfares.
1868: The first Wiener Tramway-Gesellschaft
horse drawn streetcars start
running from Stubenring to Schottentor.Itonly
takes ayear for the service
to circle the whole Ring.
1898: The tram line is electrified. As
the Emperor refuses to allow the Ring
to be defaced by overhead power
lines the locomotive cars have to be
battery powered. 1901: Aground-level
power supply is introduced.
1915: overhead power lines are installed
after all, as batteries and power
rails turn out to cause too many
operational problems.
1926: The steady growth of car traffic
necessitates the installation of the
city’s first traffic lights at the opera
crossroads (intersection of the Ringstrasse
and Kärntner Strasse).
“The Ringstrasse
shows how important
a good backdrop
can be when
it comes to largescale
parades.
Events such as the
Rainbow Parade on
2 July, the Vienna
City Marathon in
April with 30,000
runners, the Street
Festival in August
with 10,000 dance
lovers, and the harley
Days on 14 May
with 1,500 bikers
are truly unique.”
one street, one era, one feeling
11
1929: The city’sfirst pedestrian crossing
is marked out at this intersection
as well as at the one of the Ring and
Wollzeile.
1955: The opernpassage becomes the
city’sfirst pedestrian underpass.
1972: The Ringstrasse becomes oneway,
with traffic traveling clockwise.
2009: The Vienna Ring Tram is
launched. This special tram service
for tourists circles the Ring every
half hour, taking just over 23 minutes
for afull circuit. Passengers are
given background information on the
various sights via monitors and headphones.
The audio guides are in seven
languages (English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Russian and
Spanish). AViennese dialect version
has also recently been introduced.
A fiacre is the perfect way to explore
the Ringstrasse at leisure. Pick-up
points for the famous horse-drawn
carriages include the hofburg and
Stephansplatz.

DISCoVER
VIENNA
... BY BUS
AND TRAM
•Want to explore all the main sights
the easy way, by bus? hop-on,
hop-off buses are the answer.
www.viennasightseeing.at
www.redbuscitytours.at
www.cityrama.at
•like to experience Vienna’sshowpiece
boulevard aboard a streetcar,
with an audiovisual guide?
Take the Vienna Ring Tram.
www.wienerlinien.at
•Want to discover contemporary
architecture from the comfort of a
luxury 15-seater minibus with onboard
crew and catering? Take the
Donau City to T-Center tour from
the Architekturzentrum Wien.
www.azw.at
... BY BoAT
•like to cruise the Danube and the
Danube Canal? Take a sightseeing
tour on board the DDSG Blue
Danube cruisers (April–october).
Themed cruises with live music
and buffet available.
www.ddsg-blue-danube.at
•Fancy atrip on the oldest Danube
passenger ship?The MS ANA entered
service in 1894, as apleasure
cruiser for the Viennese nobility.
Available for hire today:
www.museumsschiff.at/rundfahrten.html
•Want to explore the scenery of the
Donau Auen national park? Travel
direct from the city centre aboard
the National Park Boat (May–
october).
www.wien-vienna.at/bootstaxi1.
php
•like to row down the old Danube?
Boat hire until 11 p.m. (weather
permitting); romantic full moon
trips.
www.alte-donau.info
•Dream of discovering Bratislava?
Journey from Vienna to Bratislava
on the Twin City liner in just
75 minutes.
www.twincityliner.com
... oN WhEElS
•Citybikes are available from more
than 60 docking stations throughout
the city –and the first hour
is free of charge! All you need is
acredit card or aCitybike Tourist
Card.
www.citybikewien.at
•FAXI is the environmentallyfriendly
bike taxi that cuts through
the city in double quick time.
These rickshaw-like vehicles can
also be booked for city sightseeing
trips.
www.faxi.at
•Experience Vienna at aleisurely
2.7 kilometers per hour on the
Giant Ferris Wheel.The 64.75-meter-tall
wheel offers unique views
of the city.
www.wienerriesenrad.com
... BY hoRSE
AND CARRIAGE
•Vienna tours unchanged since
imperial days start from six fiacre
stands in the historic city center.
The trips take 20 (city center only)
or 40 minutes (around the Ringstrasse
and through the old town).
Custom tours, and awheelchair
friendly fiacre are also available.
... oN FooT AND
WITh ATWIST
•Modern
Empress Elisabeth and Mozart are
your guides on acity tour with a
difference. Take a 35-stop tour
of Vienna with aspecial iGuide
pocket computer to show you the
way. Sisi and Mozart walk you
through the city, sharing their take
on Vienna. The tour lasts around
three hours, including walking between
features.
http://de.itour.de
•Macabre
“From Imperial to Paupers’ Funerals”
tour gives an insight into the
city’s morbid side. The magnificent
sarcophaguses of the Imperial
Vault and atour of the Bestattungsmuseum
(Funeral Museum)
are among the highlights. of special
interest: ahatch-bottom coffin
of the 18 th century.
www.stadtfuehrungen.at
•Seamy
The Spittelberg district outside
the old city walls was once better
known as a“temple of Venus” –
58 of the 138 buildings housed
dive bars. The area’s transformation
from ared-light district to one
of the most enchanting parts of the
city is documented in the “Den of
Iniquity to Suburban Gem” tour.
www.stadtfuehrungen.at
•Seedy
Josefine Mutzenbacher was the
greatest courtesan of 19 th century
Vienna, albeit only as afictional
figure. her “memoirs” are attributed
to Felix Salten, author of
world best-seller Bambi. This special
tour (unsuitable for children
under 14) takes alook at Vienna’s
seedier side.
www.wienfuehrung.com
•Mystical
The Da Vinci Code in Vienna? The
city is full of myths and legends
that are just waiting to be uncovered.
Amosaic copy of Da Vinci’s
last Supper with all its secret messages;
stories of the holy Grail; secret
symbols at the cathedral, and
the blood line of the habsburgs are
just some of the highlights of this
tour.
www.wienfuehrung.com

ANEW TAKE oN
VIENNA?
•Dancing
learn (or perfect) the Viennese
waltz in an intensive course in
its city of origin: the Rueff dance
school runs waltz courses for
visitors virtually every day. Even
one-time students are welcomed
with open arms. lessons in German
and English, no registration
required.
www.vienna.info
•Playing
The maze at Schönbrunn has been
afavorite spot for young and old to
play since the days of the baroque
era. Completed in 1720, the maze
was progressively scaled back until
it was abandoned in 1892. In
1999 it reopened with an area of
2,700 square meters –agreat place
for visitors of all ages to explore
and have agood time.
www.kaiserkinder.at
•Coffee tasting
learn the high art of coffee drinking
at Schönbrunn Palace. Regular
coffee tasting events are held amid
the regal splendor of the orangery.
Professional coffee tasters share
brewing and serving secrets.
www.lavera.at
VIENNA CARD
over 210 discounts and unlimited
travel on the city’s underground,
bus and tram network for
72 hours –your personal pass for
just EUR 18.50.
The Vienna Card is the ideal way
to discover the city. It includes unlimited
travel on the Wiener linien
public transportation network for
72 hours, and over 210 discounts
and concessions at selected museums,
tourist attractions, exhibitions,
theaters, concerts, stores, cafés, restaurants
and heuriger wine taverns.
The 120-page coupon booklet that
comes free with the Vienna Card is
packed with information on how
to get the most out of your ticket.
Available for EUR 18.50 from the
tourist information office, hotels,
Wiener linien ticket counters and
the Vienna Card website,
www.wienkarte.at
INFoRMATIoN
Online
•www.vienna.info
The official web travel guide for
Vienna, features information on
sights, events and online hotel
reservations
•Mobile internet:
m.vienna.info
•Facebook:
www.facebook.com/
ViennaTouristBoard
•YouTube:
www.youtube.com/ViennaTB
•www.vienna.at
The Vienna City
Council website
Telephone/e-mail
•Wien-hotels &Info
Tel. (+43 1) 24 555
Fax (+43 1) 24 555-666
9a.m. –7p.m. daily
E-mail: info@vienna.info
Face to face
•Tourist Info Vienna
Corner of Albertinaplatz and
Maysedergasse,
1010 Vienna,
behind the State opera house
9a.m. to 7p.m. daily
Information, hotel reservations,
Vienna Card, city maps, brochures,
pamphlets, souvenirs.
Ticket sales by Jirsa ticketing
offices.
•Tourist information at Vienna
International Airport
Arrivals hall
6a.m. to 11 p.m. daily
CREDITS
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Foundation Wien New York, ©Kiki Kogelnik, Birgit Jürgenssen,
untitled, 1974 ©Nachlass Birgit Jürgenssen/VBK, Vienna, 2010,
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, zweiter Schnabelkopf ©Belvedere,
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VIENNA
TASTES...
…ofyoung wines and
old traditions
Wine is as much apart of Vienna
as apple strudel or Sachertorte. It
shapes the cityscape and is the focus
of countless events each year.
With some 700 hectares of vineyards
within the city limits, wine is
central to the Viennese way of life.
local wine is traditionally the preserve
of the city’s wine taverns, or
heurigers. only abona fide heuriger
that serves Viennese wine from its
own vineyard is permitted to hang
a green sprig of pine outside and
display the words “Ausg’steckt”
on aboard to show that it is open.
Vienna is largely known for white
wines, and Grüner Veltliner is the
most common variety. The Viennese
use it to make their beloved “Gspritzter”,
or white wine spritzers, which
is simply half aglass of wine, topped
up with sparkling water. When the
temperatures soar it is time to switch
to a “Sommerspritzer”, with more
water than wine –the perfect excuse
for ordering that extra glass …
AVIENNESE
INSTITUTIoN
The Gemischter Satz or blended wine
is aspecialty that can only be found
in Vienna. It stems from traditional
growing methods that go back along
way. In the past, different varieties of
wine would be planted side by side to
reduce the risk of damage by pests or
bad weather.The result was aunique
house wine. Today ageneration of
young wine growers is breathing
new life into this tradition and taking
the Gemischter Satz to new heights.
These historic techniques are now
being employed in about one-tenth of
the city‘s total winegrowing area.
This is the sign that
local wine from the
grower’s own vineyard
is
on sale at the tavern.

oFF To ThE
hEURIGER FoR A
GlASS oF WINE
The heuriger is aViennese institution.
The recipe for success is wine
from the tavern’s own vineyards,
delicious snacks and abeautiful garden.
Patrons come from all walks of
life, from families with small children
to pensioners, students and
captains of industry.
•Traditional: Kierlinger is aheuriger
cast in the traditional mold. Ahistoric
setting and aconvivial atmosphere
in the 19 th district.
www.kierlinger.at
•Chic: Wiltschko in Mauer is anextgeneration
heuriger with aloungelike
feel (23 rd district).
www.weinbau-wiltschko.at
•Organic: Weingut hajszan on the
Nussberg hill in the 19 th district
serves its own organic wine.
www.hajszan.com
•Purist: Clear lines, plain design
and light snacks in the heuriger
tradition at Göbel in Stammersdorf
(21 st district).
www.weinbaugoebel.at
•Rustic: heuriger Wolff in the
19 th district is apicture of old-world,
cozy charm, with atiled oven, candlelit
tables and adelightful garden.
www.wienerheuriger.at
•Young: Zum Zawodsky in the
19 th district is popular among a
young, urbane clientele. Beautiful
views of Vienna. www.zawodsky.at
WINE AND
SNAIlS
Vienna has along tradition of snail
breeding. The Austrian capital was
aMecca for lovers of escargots right
up until the early 20 th century. Snails
were aparticularly popular lenten
food. There was even aspecial escargot
market behind the Peterskirche.
Rumored to have aphrodisiac properties,
escargots from the vineyards
were also dubbed “Viennese oysters.”
Market traders sold boiled and
candied snails as snacks, and they
also came deep fried, or wrapped in
bacon and served with weinkraut
(sauerkraut with apples).
A number of ambitious cooks are
now bringing the escargot back on
to the city’smenus. Snail tastings are
just one of the highlights of the annual
Genussfestival held at the Stadtpark
in early May. (Not only) for escargot
aficionados:
•Artner am Franziskanerplatz:
www.artner.co.at
•Stadtgasthaus Eisvogel:
www.stadtgasthaus-eisvogel.at
•Steirereck im Stadtpark:
www.steirereck.at
•Schwarzes Kameel:
www.kameel.at
•Gaumenspiel:
www.gaumenspiel.at
•Restaurant Vestibül:
www.vestibuel.at
DIVERSITY AT ThE
NASChMARKT
Although vegetables play something
of a supporting role in traditional
Viennese cuisine, enough fresh produce
is grown in the city to feed the
entire population if need be. Agricultural
land devoted to fruit, vegetable,
wine and cereal growing occupies
some 17 percent of the area of the
city. The market gardeners supply cucumbers,
tomatoes, bell peppers and
lettuce to Vienna’s markets, where
they are sold alongside specialties
sourced from countries around the
globe. Vienna’s markets are awhole
world in themselves, and always
worth avisit. The best known is the
Naschmarkt. With around 120 stalls,
bars and restaurants this market has
it all, from Viennese to Indian and
from Vietnamese to Italian.
The local population’s love of food
can take strange forms. Where else
would an orchestra come up with
the idea of performing on flutes made
from carrots, bass drums fashioned
from pumpkins and celeriac bongos?
The 1 st Vienna Vegetable Orchestra,
formed in 1998, is certainly good for a
surprise. www.gemueseorchester.org
MAPPING ThE
WoRlD oF
ThE WIENER
SChNITZEl
When it comes to deep frying, no one
can hold acandle to Viennese cuisine.
The wiener schnitzel is acase in
point. Figlmüller dishes up the city’s
biggest schnitzel –itis34centimeters
across on average, and contains
250 grams of pork. oK, atrue wiener
schnitzel is actually made of veal,
but all the schnitzels at Figlmüller
are tenderized by hand, and specialist
schnitzel beaters are hired for the
purpose. An installation by artist Ken
lum in the Karlsplatz Passage (www.
koer.or.at) reveals how many schnitzels
have been eaten in the city since
the start of the year on an lED display
that is updated each day. The
total for 2009 reached 21 million.
Viennese cuisine and Vienna’s wines... 15
APPlE STRUDEl
DIPloMA
The apple strudel is one of the bestknown
dishes in the Viennese cuisine
repertoire. An apple strudel
master class at Schönbrunn Palace’s
Café Residenz shows how it’s done.
Each year the café processes some
1.5 metric tons of apples. There are
apple strudel seminars for budding
bakers hoping to graduate with adiploma
and the title of Viennese Strudel
Baker.
www.cafe-residenz.at
“Can wine exude ‘youthful charm’? In Vienna it
can. Each fall the ‘Junger Wiener’ provides aforetaste
of the new vintage. This fruity young wine is
unveiled at various events across the capital at the
end of october.highly recommended.”
www.wienerwein.at
Old established
Viennese firm
Staud preserves
fruits
andveg
etables. The range
includes
fruity
jams, pickled
vegetables and
syrups. The
prod-prod- ucts are typically
Viennese, and in
demand all over
the world. You
can taste them at
Staud’s Pavillon
at the Brunnen- Brunnen-
markt market.

DREAMS
AND REAlITY
The fact that Vienna is such alivable
city is perhaps because it strikes exactly
the right balance between big
and small –albeit notalways entirely
of its own free will.
Schönbrunn Palace and the hofburg
stand out among all the city’s grand
buildings as bastions of imperial
power. These mighty and splendid
buildings draw several million visitors
each year. But if the imperial
builders had had their way each of the
habsburgs’ residences would have
been still more imposing. Shortage of
cash ultimately led to the conclusion
that sometimes less is more.
If it had been built to the original
plans Schönbrunn Palace would
have been larger than Versailles, and
at the time this would have been seen
as ademonstration of power. For all
the centuries-old rivalry between the
Bourbons and the habsburgs, when
it came down to it, the habsburgs
were simply too poor. In the end
Schönbrunn took on somewhat
more modest dimensions. Rather
than the original 2,300 rooms –as
many as Versailles –itwas designed
for amere 1,441. Which hardly mattered.
After all, who was supposed to
live in them? Despite the downsizing,
Schönbrunn with its stunning
grounds ranks among the most magnificent
palace complexes in Europe.
The plans for the hofburg also envisaged
something different –animperial
forum. This would have linked
the hofburg with the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, the Natural history
Museum and the Imperial stables
(now the MuseumsQuartier). Ultimately
just one wing, the Neue hofburg,
was completed at the end of the
19 th century. It houses the Austrian
National library and the Museum
of Ethnology. The site of the picturesque
Volksgarten where locals and
tourists come to relax and admire the
stunning rose gardens was originally
earmarked for another monumental
building that never left the drawing
board. Imperial builders had to trade
grass for cement –ablessing today.

UNICoRNS,
MURDER
WEAPoNS AND
ThE holYGRAIl
There are many treasures at the
Hofburg as this look at the wonders
owned by the Habsburgs shows.
The hofburg is home to various museums
and institutions that are devoted
to the history of the habsburgs.
The biggest draws are the Sisi Museum
and the Schatzkammer (Imperial
Treasuries), which are brimming
with unusual exhibits from the days
of empire. Atour is ahighly rewarding
experience, as afew extracts from
the inventory reveal.
For instance, the Imperial Treasuries
house apair of objects that were
deemed so valuable that they were declared
“inalienable patrimony of the
house of Austria”: agiant narwhal
tooth and a late antique agate bowl
from the fourth century AD. The
former was originaly thought to be
the horn of aunicorn and the latter
the legendary holy Grail. of course,
neither claim was true, but there is
no denying that both exhibits are still
well worth seeing.
Another of the exhibits is in keeping
with the Viennese penchant for the
macabre –an1895 cabinet containing
the keys to the habsburgs’ sarcophaguses.
Each was locked with
two keys, one of which was held by
the Capuchin monks at the Kaisergruft
crypt, and the other was kept in
this cabinet at the Imperial Treasuries.
All of the keys still work, even
though the oldest dates back to the
17 th century.
Just afew steps away you arrive at
the Sisi Museum, which introduces
visitors to the original surroundings
of the legendary empress, and also
boasts some rather curious mementos.
For example, there is a cocaine
syringe used by the eccentric monarch.
She was not addicted –inthose
days cocaine was used as apain killer
and anti-depressant. The file that
killed Elisabeth on the shore of lake
Geneva in 1898 is unusual in that
murder weapons are normally prohibited
from going on public display.
The Sisi Star,apiece of the empress’s
jewelry set with priceless pearls and
diamonds, was returned to the museum
three years ago. It was stolen
in the 1990s, and eventually traced
to Canada after alengthy investigation.
–All in all, then, the imperial
museums should always be part of
any traveler‘s itinerary.
ThE NUMBERS
GAME AT ThE
Zoo
Emperor Franz IStephan, known to
many only as Empress Maria Theresa’s
consort, was no mean mathematician.
less well known is the fact
that his many interests included hermeticism,
alchemy and freemasonry.
It was at Schönbrunn Zoo, which
he founded in 1752 –making it the
world’soldest –that he gave his love
of numerology free rein. he hoped to
strengthen the house of habsburg by
embuing it with mystical powers in
this way. Aclose look at the 1759 Imperial
Breakfast Pavilion turns up a
number of secrets:
•The pavilion was surrounded by
12 animal enclosures when it was
built, each standing for adifferent
sign of the zodiac.
•The pavilion has eight sides: the
figure eight symbolizes eternity, as
well as power and happiness.
•The plinth of the pavilion is square,
and represents the four elements
and the four cardinal Platonic virtues
– wisdom, courage, moderation
and justice.
•Nine steps lead to the pavilion, a
number that denotes wisdom and
completion in the Kabbalah.
•Three avenues which form an equilateral
triangle lead to the pavilion.
The number three stands for the
harmony of body, spirit and soul.
Today visitors can explore the numerological
puzzles themselves, as
the pavilion was converted into a
café and restaurant in 1949. There
are excellent views of the surrounding
enclosures from the terrace. And
after taking time out for asnack, it’s
off to see the pandas, elephants and
lions.
Twounique crowns are on display at the Imperial Treasuries. The
Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation is over
1,000 years old. And although the crown of emperor Rudolf II was
the Austrian Empire‘s crown no emperor was ever crowned with it.
SoNG CoNTEST
AND IMPERIAl
BoYS’ ChoIR
With a little help from Udo Jürgens,
one of the best known singercomposers
in the German-speaking
world, pop music took the imperial
hofburg by storm. Strange, but true.
The singer won the 1966 Grand Prix
de la Chanson in luxembourg with
his song Merci Chéri, meaning that
in 1967 the 12 th GP would be held in
Vienna, or the hofburg’sGrosser Festsaal,
to be precise. Sandie Shaw representing
the United Kingdom won
with her hit Puppet on aString.
The interval featured an appearance
by the Vienna Boys’ Choir.They still
perform at the hofburg to this day –
but in the Burgkapelle. The origins
of the world-famous Boys’ Choir go
back to Emperor Maximilan I(1459–
1519). In September 2011 the Albertina
is mounting amajor exhibition
dedicated to this habsburg – who
is remembered as the “last knight”–
and the art of his time.
An exhibition entitled
Emperor Maximilian I
(1459–1519) and the Art
of his Time is due to open
on 16 September 2011.
Maximilian was atrue
renaissance prince –a
leading patron of learning
and the arts, he spoke seven
languages and his alliance
with the kings of Spain
laid the groundwork for the
subsequent greatness of the
House of Habsburg.
Dreams and reality17
Equestrian statues are nothing out of the ordinary, but there is certainly something unusual about the
one on Heldenplatz. The monument to Archduke Karl is one of the few examples of astatue where
the full weight of the horse and rider is supported on the back legs.
Where better to say “Merci Chérie”
than the romantic surroundings of the
Hofburg?
Every Saturday
at 10.45 a.m.
between May
and october
the hoch- und
Deutschmeister
band marches
up Kohlmarkt
to the Innerer
Burghof courtyard
to give a
40-minute concert.

MUSIC
IS IN
ThE AIR
…and with 415 square kilometers
of airspace above Vienna there is
plenty of room for allkinds of music.
Every night in Vienna around
10,000 music lovers are treated to live
classical music –something no other
city in the world can rival. The variety
offered by an annual 15,000 concerts
is unbelievable. The Vienna concert
program ranges from ancient music
(baroque and earlier) to the Viennese
classics (Mozart, haydn, Beethoven)
and contemporary compositions.
And the city‘s cellar joints, clubs and
bars are alive with the rarest grooves,
the heaviest bass and the coolest
sounds. Jazz, rock, pop, world and
electronic music are served straight
up or mixed, but absolutely danceable.
And there is no fear of mixing
old and new. Waltz King Johann
Strauss and pleasure loving Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart would be delighted
with what the young generation are
making out of their melodies.
Photographer Lukas Beck took the idea of “music
in the air” literally when he organised apicture
session with the Vienna Boys’ Choir on the roof of
the Natural HistoryMuseum.

VIENNA IS NoT ShoRT
oF SUPERlATIVES
Do you know who the most photographed
Viennese is? Waltz king
Johann Strauss, whose golden monument
in the Stadtpark appears in
photo albums with unparalleled frequency.
he even outdoes fellow musician
Mozart, whose statue is in the
Burggarten.
The city’s opera houses perform a
total of around 100 different works
each season. Vienna’s flagship opera
house, the State Opera, has the
fullest program. And it also has the
largest number of permanent residents,
thanks to the 60,000 bees that
live on the roof. There is apremiere
every month at the Theater an der
Wien, which stages everything from
baroque to modern works. The Volksoper
is the city‘s top operetta venue,
but is no stranger to opera and musicals.
Gustav Mahler is very much in the
headlines at the moment, as 2011
marks the 100 th anniversary of the
great composer and conductor‘s
death. Mahler was musical director
of the Court opera (today’s State
opera) for ten years. his wife Alma
No oNE IS
UNMoVED
BY MUSIC
It’s amazing what music can do.
Vienna has music that ...
... brings people together: At the
1814/15 Vienna Congress the novel
waltz music put aspring in the assembled
diplomats’ step, indirectly
helping central Europe to half acentury
of peace. Napoleon’sadmiration
for haydn even crossed the lines
of warfare, and he posted aguard
of honor in front of the composer’s
house to protect him during the siege
of Vienna.
was averitable femme fatale, turning
the heads of alegion of artists,
including painter oskar Kokoschka.
The Vienna Boys’ Choir is a
100-strong ensemble with long traditions.
The oldest boy group in the
world is also the most enduring, and
with 300 appearance to its name, the
busiest.
Not just boy groups, but bands representing
just about every imaginable
style are on the bill at the annual
Danube Island festival, held at
the start of the summer. Attracting
three million visitors each year, the
three-day event is Europe‘s largest
free open-air party. There are almost
400 hours of entertainment and a
dozen different stages to enjoy.
Vienna is multi-cultural. The past
few years have seen the birth of
a number of new festivals whose
names tell you everything you need
to know. There are the Accordion
and KlezMoRE festivals, Balkan Fever,Salam
orient and the Wean hean
festival (dedicated to the Wienerlied
song –the city’sown musical genre).
… makes ladies go weak at the
knees: The waltz leaves no room for
female emancipation. The gentleman
leads and the trusting lady puts herself
in his hands.
… amazes: Acapella festival Voice
Mania is all about virtuoso vocal
acrobatics. Besides trilling, purring,
chirruping, humming and growling,
performers whisper, pant and generally
play the goat. They even sing, as
well.
…fills dance floors: Music gets the
toes tapping, especially at the capital‘s
hottest clubs and discos. Popular
haunts include Pratersauna, Flex
and Praterdome, Austria‘s largest
disco. ImPulsTanz, Europe’s largest
contemporary dance festival, serves
up around 200 dance workshops and
top performances each summer. The
dancers at the Vienna State opera
Ballet are the ultimate in poise.
…brings out the best in everyone:
At the house of Music, Vienna’s interactive
sound museum, offbeat
experiments await budding composers
(CDs of your work are available
to take away) and conductors (the
Vienna Philharmonic follow your
virtual baton).
“A free concert by the Vienna
Philharmonic on astage in front
of Schönbrunn Palace, in front of
an audience of 100,000 –though
the Summer Night Concert is televised
worldwide, you have to be
there to experience the unique atmosphere.”
Music is in the air
19
ANATIoN oF
MUSIC ADDICTS
Now it’sofficial. AVienna University
of Music study confirms the received
wisdom that music plays akey role
in Austrian life.
The research found that people
spend more time listening to music
than they devote to sport. Every second
person is musically active, and
fully 85 percent indicated that music
played an indispensible role in their
life. It is hardly surprising that music
thrives in such fertile soil.
YoU WANT IT,
VIENNA’S GoT IT
Tips for
... classical music lovers: Musikverein,
Konzerthaus, Festival oster-
Klang.
…autograph hunters: meet Anna
Netrebko!
…musical fans: addict alert! one
Elisabeth fan managed 450 performances.
2011 latest: Tanz der
Vampire, Ich war noch niemals in
New York.
…jazz lovers: Vienna Blues Spring
(the world’slongest jazz festival),
Vienna Jazz Festival, Vienna Jazzfloor
Festival.
…talent scouts: up and coming
rock, pop, hip-hop and electronic
acts in the bars along the Gürtel
beltway.
…performers: choirs at Voices of
the World in front of Schönbrunn
Palace.
…bon vivants: afeast for the ears,
eyes and palate at the Music Film
Festival on City hall Square.
…beginners: free opera for all
courtesy of live broadcasts from the
State opera house on the big screen
outside.
…party people: raise your glass to
the New Year’sTrail.
…visual artists: images of dance at
the sound:frame Festival

Twentieth centuryAustrian design was also
outstanding, as seen at the 700 square meter lichterloh
showroom
Traditional milliner Mühlbauer (estd. 1903)
is one of countless Viennese companies that
is apast master at combining experience,
craftsmanship, style and design.
CREATIVE
MINDS DIG
DEEP
The Wien Museum will be showing
design highlights from the last decade
at an exhibition entitled “2000-
2010 –Design in Vienna” between
7October 2010 and 9January 2011.
“In the last ten years alively, and
globally-acclaimed product design
scene has evolved in Vienna”, explains
Peter Stuiber from the Wien
Museum. “A new generation of –
mostly Vienna-trained – creatives
is developing innovative methods,
setting up networks and working
internationally.” The allure of working
in Vienna stems from the fact
that traditional businesses are always
looking to join forces with young designers,
and offer aquality of manufacturing
that is rarely found these
days. Among these companies are
big names such as the glass manufacturer
lobmeyr, founded in 1823, the
300-year old porcelain manufacturer
Augarten, and the textile company
Backhausen, renowned as the main
supplier of the Wiener Werkstätte.
Many smaller Viennese workshops
also stand for quality of the highest
order.”
Visitors to Vienna can trace the fascinating
history of design right back
to its industrial beginnings around
1900. outstanding exhibits include
Wiener Werkstätte pieces at the MAK
and in the leopold Museum. There
are Backhausen textile designs from
historicist through Art Nouveau to
contemporary on show at the Wiener
Werkstätte Museum. And the Imperial
Furniture Collection is one of the
world’s largest furniture museums.
The exhibitions at the designforum
and quartier21 (both in the Museums-
Quartier), the shop/café “das möbel”,
the open house at Walking Chair
Design Gallery and the Klaus Engelhorn
Gallery offer agood overview of
young design. And, of course, there
is the design market, which is held at
the historic Adolf loos house before
Christmas each year.
The tight-knit but vibrant Vienna design
scene holds up well against its
international peers and keeps attracting
young talent to the city. Seemingly,
the great tradition of loos, hoffmann
and co. is seen as enrichment
rather than aburden.
NoT oNlY
“WhAT” –
ThE “WhERE”
AND “hoW”
MATTER, Too
Trend and marketing researchers
often categorise people according
to their shopping preferences. Dedicated
followers of fashion, bargain
hunters, brand loyalists and spontaneous
shoppers are all part of it. Each
target group has its own shopping
district or even its own shopping
city. But shopping in Vienna caters
to all desires and tastes and best of
all, there are no strict categorizations.
With the main shopping areas close
to the center, all the hotspots are
within walking distance from each
other. The boundaries between style
and cult, one-off pieces and brand
products, avant-garde and tradition
are fluent.
Brand lovers will feel at home in the
heart of the city. All the big names
have their flagship stores in the district
around Kärtner Strasse, Graben
and Kohlmarkt. Some of the city’s
hippest stores are beyond the Ringstrsse
which encircles the old town.
The second to ninth districts are
home to anew breed of mostly young
designers. The Freihausviertel (near
Naschmarkt) and Neubaugasse are
always worth alook. From there, it
is only ashort walk to Vienna’s largest
shopping strip, the Mariahilfer
Strasse.

ThE BEAUTIFUl
IS AS USEFUl AS
ThE USEFUl
•Famous Famous for
his
uncompromising
stance on form, architect Adolf
Loos was aman ahead of his time.
In 1929 he designed abar set with
diamond pattern on the base for the
American Bar in Vienna. It is still
part of the lobmeyr range today.
In 2010 Marco Dessi came up with
•Floor design in the Kunsthistorisches
Museum Vienna, according
to drawings by Gottfried Semper and
Karl Freiherr von hasenauer,1891.
•A pair of drinking icons: Wiener
Werkstätte tea set from 1903, designed
by Josef hoffmann, crafted
by Konrad Koch, from the MAK
collection. Double-cup Divina by
the “grip” series for the same company.
This glassware shows just
how handcrafting can bring apareddown
design to life. Similar to loos’
design, the detailing on the base
protects the objects from scratches.
•Ceiling design, Skopik &Lohn restaurant.Byotto
Zitko, 2006.
designer hedwig Rotter. Perfect for
a“kleiner schwarzer or amelange”.
hand made in Vienna.
www.manodesign.at
•The original Scheer workshop produces
amaximum of just 300 pairs
of made-to-measure, handcrafted
shoes each year.Ittakes sixty hours
to make one pair, explains Markus
Scheer, the seventh-generation
owner of the company.
•Wittgenstein’s fingerprint. This fufuturist door
handle
was
designed
by
EooS (Gernot
Bohmann,
harald
Gründl
and
Martin
Bergmann,
graduates
of
the
University
of
Fine
Arts
Vienna)
for
aaworkshop
workshop run
by
German
manufacturer
fsb.
It
pays
homage
to
the
philosopher
ludwig
Wittgenstein who also made architectural
history with his radical
minimalist design for his sister’s
house in Vienna. The handle
features an integrated sensor that
recognises biometric fingerprint
data and works as a“key”.
•The contemporary furniture on sale
at Marlowe also bears witness to
the enduring popularity of Vienna’s
distinctive fin de siècle design signature.
•Superated’s clear lines, fine materials
and original cuts have been
turning heads since the label was
launched in 2005. For men who
have the confidence and humor to
carry off extraordinary fashion. The
superated team has astore called
Samstag in Margaretenstrasse in
Vienna (open Fri noon –7p.m. Sat
10 a.m. –7p.m.) which carries international
and Austrian fashion for
men and women, from designers including
hartmann Nordenholz and
house of the Very Island’s.
“During the Vienna Design Week
(29 September –9october 2011)
the whole city will become a
showroom of contemporary Austrian
and international product,
furniture and industrial designs.
As part of the Passionswege design
trails, designers will create
site-specific installations in shops
and businesses around the city.”
Form and function21
oRIGINAlS
FRoM VIENNA
Manner Schnitten
how do you measure worldwide
success? one Manner wafer (first
mentioned in the Manner product
catalogue in 1898) weighs 7.5 grams.
And with annual production of about
10,000 metric tons that makes about
1.3 billion wafers each year! Each
wafer measures 47x17x17mm, which
equates to 61,000 kilometres of Manner
wafers per year –easily enough
to stretch round the planet one and
ahalf times. or have we made amistake
somewhere?
The Snow Globe
They have featured in films such as
Citizen Kane, True lies and home
Alone. Slow globes were invented by
Viennese toolmaker Erwin Perzy in
1900. The original workshop produces
around 300,000 units each year,
including anumber of custom orders
such as the “confetti globe.” This
one-off featured confetti from Bill
Clinton’s inauguration and a silver
base by Cartier. The original Viennese
Snow Globe Museum adjoins
the workshop.
The Thonet Chair no. (2)14
With around 50 million made so far,
no other chair has been produced
on the same scale as Thonet’s no. 14
model (today no. 214). The classic
café chair, isone of the most enduring
industrial products of all time,
and undeniably one of the most successful.
Nonja
She is the first orang-utan with aFacebook
account and acamera of her
own – Schönbrunn Zoo’s leading
lady Nonja. Renowned for her painting,
her works have fetched prices of
up to EUR 2,000. Now she has exchanged
her palette and brush for a
digital camera, sharing her photos on
her Facebook site.

SWING INTo
SPRING ...
is the watchword as Vienna comes to
life in spring. Your Vienna spring can be:
•eastery: at the city’s Easter markets in
April, in front of Schönbrunn Palace
and on Freyung in the old town. or the
osterKlang music festival at the Theater
an der Wien and the Musikverein
from 16–24 April 2011.
•contemporary: at Viennafair,the international
fair for contemporary art with
afocus on CEE, 12–15 May 2011.
•fashionable: at Modepalast, the cutting-edge
sales exhibition for fashion,
jewelry and accessories in April 2011:
street couture, ready to wear and ecofashion.
•sporty: at the Vienna City Marathon on
17 April –anunforgettable experience
for competitors and spectators alike.
ThE DANUBE So
BlUE –AND ThE
SKY,ASWEll
Vienna has oceans of space for sun worshippers
and open-air fans:
•along the Danube Canal with the Summer
Stage, Badeschiff, TelAviv Beach
and the Arabian Beach (planned for
2011).
•at Motto am Fluss, located at the
new Twin City liner boat terminal.
“The best looking dockside bar in the
world” is how architect Stephan Ferency
(BEhF) terms the city’s newest
café, restaurant, bar, and business and
event hotspot.
•on the Danube Island, where the options
range from unspoilt nature to
party central.
•inthe parks,from picnics to the Wiener
Genussfestival in the Stadtpark.
•on the Gürtel beltway, where the late
night party crowd go bar hopping.
•musical/visual: at sound:frame, the
festival for visualising electronic music
–aglobal summit for international
visual artists, VJs, video artists, sound
producers, DJs and media artists in
March/April.
•musical/technical: at the Museum of
Technology, the “Macht Musik!” exibition
gives visitors achance to try out
and experience instruments, stages,
computers, synthesizers, sound mixing
desks and cutting-edge studio technology.
•moving: on tours of Vienna’s green
spaces such as the lainzer Tiergarten
wildlife preserve with Empress Sisi’s
summer palace, the hermesvilla.
•inthe Prater,where highlights include
the 1May celebrations and the Praterrummel
at the end of August.
•in the MuseumsQuartier, which turns
into acity center open-air venue each
year during “summer at the MQ”.
•at the open-air cinemas in the Augarten
and on Karlsplatz.
•atone of the many outdoor swimming
pools,many of which are architectural
gems.

AUTUMNAl
DElIGhTS ...
for lovers of the good things in life.
Choose from:
•young wine, which goes on sale at the
city’sheuriger taverns in fall.
•freshly-harvested produce at the harvest
festival on heldenplatz.
•selected performances at the Vienna
State opera house which are broadcast
live on the big screen next to the opera
house in September and october.
•cinematic highlights at the Viennale
international film festival, held in october
•contemporary music at the Wien Modern
festival in october/November.
•the marked footpaths that criss-cross
the Vienna Woods and other easily accessible
recreation zones –the blend of
the great outdoors, city living and culinary
delights.
“VIENNA IS
ChRISTMAS” ...
as the German version of “1000 Places
to See before YouDie” puts it. And it is
true, yuletide magic is everywhere:
•sparkling lights: during the run up to
Christmas Vienna’s shopping streets
try to outdo each other with creative
and atmospheric lighting.
•Advent markets: yuletide magic and
shopping in front of Schönbrunn Palace,
and on Am hof and City hall
Square in the historic city center; or
with aview, onthe Cobenzl hill (bio
Advent market).
•New Year’sTrail: aseries of show stages
that transform the entire old town
into one big party zone.
•Kaiserball: anyone looking to end the
year on atruly festive note dances in
the New Year in the staterooms at the
hofburg.
•on a special tour of the city: the
120-kilometer-long Rundumadum trail
encircles the city in 24 easily manageable
stages. The start and finish of each
stage is accessible by public transportation.
•New Year’s Concert: if you are not
fortunate enough to experience the
world’s most-famous concert live in
the Golden hall of the Musikverein
on 1January, there is always the video
wall on City hall Square.
•Vienna Ice World: from 20 January to 6
March City hall Square is transformed
into a giant ice landscape complete
with an romantic ice trail through the
historic Rathauspark.
•ball season: it doesn’t have to be the
opera Ball (3 March 2011) –Vienna
has something for everyone.
•Resonanzen: the ancient music festival
will bring the music of the periods
from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
to the Konzerthaus from 15–2 January.
Vienna in 201123

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