Vienna · Austria
Imperial palaces. Mozart on a Tuesday. A coffee that takes an hour.
Schönbrunn, Hofburg, Belvedere. Mozart, Strauss, Vivaldi. Day trips out to Hallstatt, the Wachau Valley and Bratislava.
The evening concert
Start with a concert in a baroque church.
If you’ve got one Vienna night, this is the one. A baroque church, period instruments, and Vivaldi where the acoustics were built for it.
The iconic tours
Vienna’s Most Popular Experiences
Schönbrunn and Hofburg. Vivaldi at Karlskirche. The Spanish Riding School. The reasons people fly to Vienna.
Imperial Vienna
Pick a palace.
Schönbrunn for the gardens. Hofburg for the Sisi story. Belvedere for Klimt’s gold. Kunsthistorisches for the Bruegels. Imperial Treasury for the crown jewels. Spanish Riding School for the Lipizzaner ballet.
By experience
Or pick how to spend the evening.
A walking tour through the Innere Stadt. A Danube cruise at dusk. A Mozart concert in a candlelit church. A Heuriger wine night in the hills. A long lunch at a coffee house.
Out of the city
Take the train out for a day.
Vienna sits at a crossroads. The Slovak capital is an hour east. The Wachau Valley unspools west along the Danube. Hallstatt is three hours south, and worth every minute.
Music capital
If you came for the music.
Karlskirche for Vivaldi. Musikverein for the gold-room acoustics. Annakirche for the small-room intimacy. Three evenings to plan a week’s visit around.
On foot
Walk the inner ring.
The Innere Stadt is a circle, just a few hundred metres across. Two hours with a guide and you’ll know how the streets connect. Our three favourite ways to know the centre.
Heuriger nights
An evening at the wine taverns.
A Heuriger is a Viennese wine tavern, usually in the hills at the city’s edge. Long tables, cold sausage, young wine, an accordion if you’re lucky. If we had to pick three nights to spend at one, these are the cellars we’d book.
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