This hotel would have been perfect for me if only there had been a CityBike station nearby. But that was my own fault for not doing my homework before booking. Somehow, I thought Vienna would be like Paris, with 1400 bike stations all over the city and nearby suburbs. But Read More …
The MuseumsQuartier Wien claims to be “one of the largest art and culture complexes in the world.” It opened in 2001 in a group of 18th and 19th century buildings that once served as the Imperial Stables. (Imagine these monumental buildings and courtyards full of horses — hundreds of horses.) Read More …
Vienna is said to have over 1,400 kilometers of cycle paths. I have only tried a small fraction of these, but I was impressed since many of them are wide and well-marked, and often physically separated from car traffic. I particularly liked the Ringstrasse Route (first photo), which goes along Read More …
On my previous visits to Vienna, I always arrived at the West Station (Westbahnhof) — except for the first time, when I arrived in a folding boat (sort of like a kayak) on the Danube River. But this time (in 2016) the train from Frankfurt arrived at the new Central Read More …
This “Vienna Museum” (Wien Museum) is a city history museum whose collections are “a blend of art and history”, meaning that there are numerous art works on display to illustrate the historical development of the city. Although the museum is in a very central location on Karlsplatz, it is often Read More …
When I bought my ticket for the Vienna Art History Museum (KHM = Kunsthistorisches Museum), I was told that the ticket was also valid for admission to the three departments of the museum that were located across the street in the Neue Burg (“New Castle”). To find the entrance to the Read More …
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) is a major art museum that was built starting in 1891 near the Imperial Palace in Vienna to display the extensive art collections of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph and his family. Among many other famous art works, this museum has fourteen paintings by Pieter Bruegel Read More …
As I have mentioned elsewhere, when I arrive in a new city or a new district the first thing I try to do is to take a walk around the block and around the neighborhood of my hotel, to see what I can find nearby before venturing further afield. In Read More …
The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) is one of the world’s busiest opera houses, with 350 performances per year. When I was there, in the last week of October 2016, they put on five performances of three different operas. I went to all three of these. There were two evenings Read More …
The Volksoper (meaning “People’s Opera”) in Vienna puts on about three hundred performances per year — nearly every evening from September through June — of operas, operettas, musicals and ballets. Like the Komische Oper in Berlin and the Gärtnerplatz opera house in Munich, the Volksoper has a policy of performing most their Read More …