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Butterfly House

Butterfly House

The Palm House in Burggarten is considered one of the most beautiful art nouveau structures of its kind in the ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture
Naturhistorisches Museum

Naturhistorisches Museum

Die Sammlung: Begeben Sie sich auf eine Reise durch die atemberaubende Vielfalt der Natur: Von Insekten über Edelsteine und Mineralien ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
Belvedere

Belvedere

History:This comprehensive baroque estate consists of two palaces (Upper and Lower Belvedere) and houses today an impressive collection of Austrian ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
Kunsthaus

Kunsthaus

In den ehemaligen Thonethäusern in Wien entstand ein neues kulturelles Wahrzeichen. Ein Forum für bedeutende internationale Ausstellungen, eine Heimat für ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture
The Giant Ferris Wheel and its Square

The Giant Ferris Wheel and its Square

You may want to visit this landmark of Vienna in the footsteps of the immortal movie “The Third Man” or ... more...		 Categories:
Sightseeing, Wienerisch
Rhiz

Rhiz

The rhiz is the most “electronic” of the bars and pubs along the Vienna Gürtel. Here, you will find rather ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Szene & Nightlife
Badeschiff (floating swimming pool)

Badeschiff (floating swimming pool)

Here is where it’s at, where you disappear below deck to groove to music. The lower deck of the Badeschiff ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Szene & Nightlife
Bellaria Konzert-Café

Bellaria Konzert-Café

History: The Café Bellaria is located in a historically significant area of Vienna’s cultural mile, close to the Naturhistorisches Museum, ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Kunsthistorisches Museum

Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum was erected close to the Hofburg to accommodate the extensive imperial Habsburg collections. The monumental structure, built ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
Haus des Meeres

Haus des Meeres

Aqua Terra Zoo Aus Privatinitiative entstand eine Schausammlung mit mehr als 3000 lebenden Meerestieren, die täglich besichtigt werden kann. Sie ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
Christmas Market – Magical Advent at the Rathausplatz

Christmas Market – Magical Advent at the Rathausplatz

From mid-November, as every year, there is Christmas in the air in Vienna again. The scent of candied fruits, cotton ... more...		 Categories:
Events, Shopping, Wienerisch
Museums Quartier

Museums Quartier

The MuseumsQuartier is one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world. But above all, it is a forward-looking, ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Food & Drink, Szene & Nightlife
The Third Man

The Third Man

Carol Reed films "The Third Man" in Austria. Filming "Third Man" scenes in the sewers of Vienna. Carol Reed in ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture
Palmenhaus (greenhouse)

Palmenhaus (greenhouse)

The "Palmenhouse" is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful steel-glass structures of its time; it nestles on a wing of ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Szene & Nightlife
Plakatwurst (poster sausage)

Plakatwurst (poster sausage)

Aktionsradius Augarten Event: "Heute ist uns alles Wurst” (Today we don’t care about anything) The theme of this evening is ... more...		 Categories:
Events, Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Schönbrunn Zoo

Schönbrunn Zoo

Der Tiergarten Schönbrunn ist der älteste Zoo der Welt und wurde 1752 von Kaiserin Maria Theresia und ihrem Gatten Kaiser ... more...		 Categories:
Sightseeing
Schneekugelmuseum

Schneekugelmuseum

Die Geschichte der Original Wiener Schneekugel: Im Jahre 1900 stellte mein Grossvater, ERWIN PERZY I, hier in Wien die erste ... more...		 Categories:
Sightseeing, Wienerisch
Schloss Schönbrunn

Schloss Schönbrunn

Weltkulturerbe Schloss SchönbrunnDie imperiale Schlossanlage Schönbrunn mit ihren Nebengebäuden und dem weitläufigen Park zählt aufgrund ihrer langen und recht bewegten ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
Kohlmarkt

Kohlmarkt

The history of the Kohlmarkt reaches back to the time of Vindobona. It provided access to the southwest gate of ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Shopping, Sightseeing
The Pope’s Visit to Vienna

The Pope’s Visit to Vienna

On September 7th, 2007 the pope honored Vienna with a visit: 12:00 o’clock drive from the airport to Platz am ... more...		 Categories:
Events, Personalities
Secession

Secession

Die Wiener Secession wurde am 3. April 1897 von Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil, ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
roomz Hotel

roomz Hotel

roomz involves more than rooms. roomz means well planned from beginning to end: from ‘A’ as in ambiance to ‘Z’ ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Hotels
Le Meridien Hotel

Le Meridien Hotel

Modern European lifestyle in a uniquely relaxed yet stimulating atmosphere. Demanding guests are served with heart and soul. 294 generous, ... more...		 Categories:
Hotels
Albertina Sammlung Batliner

Albertina Sammlung Batliner

Die Albertina hat im Frühjahr 2007 eine der bedeutendsten europäischen Privatsammlungen der klassischen Moderne als Dauerleihgabe erhalten: die Liechtenstein’sche Stiftung ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture
Ticket machines

Ticket machines

These days almost everything functions digitally and we are wont to communicate with machines. However, they do have their pitfalls. ... more...		 Categories:
How To, Personalities, Wienerisch
Naschmarkt

Naschmarkt

History:In the 18th century, there was a farmer’s market where mainly milk products were sold on the bank of the ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Personalities, Sightseeing, Wienerisch
Museum for Contraception and Abortion

Museum for Contraception and Abortion

Who does still know how anxiety-laden contraception was before the development of the pill? Who remembers the struggle to legalize ... more...		 Categories:
Sightseeing
Donaukanal

Donaukanal

History:The Donaukanal (“Danube Canal”, also referred to as Kleine Donau (“Small Danube”), and formerly also Wiener Wasser (“Viennese Water”)) is ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Food & Drink, Szene & Nightlife
Wiener Prater

Wiener Prater

History: The Prater was once an imperial hunting ground and accessible only to the nobility until in 1766 the Austrian ... more...		 Categories:
Sightseeing, Wienerisch
Grinzing

Grinzing

Geschichte: Kaiser Probus ist schuld daran, dass schon 276 n.Chr. die ersten Weinstöcke auf den Hügeln rund um Grinzing gepflanzt ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Albertina

Albertina

The Albertina, Vienna’s biggest exhibition hall, houses one of the largest and most valuable collections of graphic arts in the ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
Schweizerhaus

Schweizerhaus

History: The name Schweizerhaus is derived from a Schweizer Meierei (Swiss dairy) that was opened in the Prater in 1868. ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Bestattungsmuseum (Funeral Museum)

Bestattungsmuseum (Funeral Museum)

Funeral directors in pompous uniforms and the “beautiful corpse”, baroque opulence until death and thrift-driven oddities such as Emperor Joseph ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Wienerisch
Flex

Flex

FLEX - the club in the undergroundDub, jungle, electro, techno, nu-skool, dubstep, drum'n'bass - Flex in Vienna presents a great ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Szene & Nightlife
David Lynch in Vienna

David Lynch in Vienna

The famous master director David Lynch followed an invitation from Hans Hurch to the Gartenbau Cinema on the occasion of ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Events, Personalities
Hotel Sacher

Hotel Sacher

Im Hotel Sacher vereinen sich Tradition, Luxus, Stil und der typische Wiener Charme mit Komfort und Genuss. Das Hotel Sacher ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Hotels
Sacher Restaurants

Sacher Restaurants

Restaurant Rote BarVom Wintergarten der „Roten Bar“ blickt man direkt auf die Wiener Staatsoper und läßt sich von dezenten Klavierklängen ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Hotels
Steinhof

Steinhof

Steinhof and Baumgartner Höhe may be the same geographically. But not by a long shot for Viennese. Depending on the ... more...		 Categories:
Sightseeing
Vienna’s Pummerin returns home

Vienna’s Pummerin returns home

Austria's biggest and heaviest church bell named Pummerin weighs 21,383 kg and has been hanging in the North Tower since ... more...		 Categories:
Events, Personalities, Wienerisch
St. Stephen’s Square Pedestrian Zone (Stephansplatz)

St. Stephen’s Square Pedestrian Zone (Stephansplatz)

Der Platz vor dem Stephansdom, dem bedeutendsten Baudenkmal und Wahrzeichen Wiens, besteht in seiner heutigen baulichen Begrenzung erst seit dem ... more...		 Categories:
Events
Liebes alte Cafehaus

Liebes alte Cafehaus

Viennese coffee specialities such as Einspänner (“one-horse carriage”: black coffee with a lot of whipped cream), Schale Gold (“bowl of ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Chancellor Klaus on the Naschmarktt

Chancellor Klaus on the Naschmarktt

Chancellor Dr. Klaus visited the Viennese Naschmarkt (principal Viennese market) to inform himself about food prices. Market reports alone would ... more...		 Categories:
Personalities, Shopping, Wienerisch
The Giant Ferris Wheel’s 60th Birthday

The Giant Ferris Wheel’s 60th Birthday

The Viennese Wurstelprater (permanent fun fair). Here, at one time or another everyone has experienced the thrill of the roller ... more...		 Categories:
Events, Wienerisch
Fashion from Vienna 1959

Fashion from Vienna 1959

Viennese fashion doesn’t evoke fashion as does London, Paris or New York. Nevertheless, in the fifties Vienna was indeed a ... more...		 Categories:
Shopping, Wienerisch
Kärntnerstrasse Pedestrian Zone

Kärntnerstrasse Pedestrian Zone

For many it is no longer conceivable that at one time traffic (cars) would have roared along Kärntnerstrasse. But it ... more...		 Categories:
Events, Shopping
Recipe: Topfenschmarren with Zwetschkenröster (cut-up pan cake made of cheese with stewed plums)

Recipe: Topfenschmarren with Zwetschkenröster (cut-up pan cake made of cheese with stewed plums)

Ingredients for 5 servings5 eggs½ kg farmer’s cheese (25%), well drainedpeel of 1 lemon (untreated), grated¼ l of sour creamsalt1 ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Rezept Linsensuppe

Rezept Linsensuppe

Zutaten für 4-6 Portionen250 g Linsen1 kleine Zwiebel1 Bund Wurzelwerk1 EL Öl1 EL Butter1 KL Mehl (glatt)1,5 L Bouillon (je ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Recipe: Wiener Schnitzel

Recipe: Wiener Schnitzel

Ingredients for 4 servings4 veal cutlets (à about 140 g), choice cut from leg of vealsalt120 g flour (smooth) 2 ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Liechtenstein Museum

Liechtenstein Museum

Das LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM mit den Fürstlichen Sammlungen nimmt national wie international eine herausragende Stellung ein. Es ist die grosse Vielfalt ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
Recipe: Meat with Rice

Recipe: Meat with Rice

Ingredients for 4 servings600 g marbled pork for stewing (the best neck cut) 120 g smoked bacon200 g onions, crescent ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Recipe: Roasted Veal Liver with Parsley Potatoes

Recipe: Roasted Veal Liver with Parsley Potatoes

Roasted Veal LiverIngredients for 4 servings:600 g cleaned veal liverflour (smooth) for dusting2 onions (180 g) 4 tbsp oilsaltfreshly ground ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch
Spanische Hofreitschule – Gestüt Piber

Spanische Hofreitschule – Gestüt Piber

Lipizzaner, ein klingender Name für die älteste Kulturpferderasse Europas und eines der interessantesten Kulturgüter der Welt. Heute besteht die Aufgabe ... more...		 Categories:
Art & Culture, Sightseeing
Simmeringer Hauptstraße

Simmeringer Hauptstraße

History Anyone taking tram 71 from the 1st district to Zinnergasse in the 11th is following the old Roman road ... more...		 Categories:
Shopping, Wienerisch
Pass'Partout Bilderrahmen

Pass'Partout Bilderrahmen

Pass'Partout Bilderrahmen Gregor EderDer Besucher wird schon vor dem Eintritt ins Geschäftslokal von der inspirierenden Atmosphäre des historischen Gassenambientes erfasst. ... more...		 Categories:
Shopping
Der Wiener Würstelstand - ein ganz besonderer Ort

Der Wiener Würstelstand - ein ganz besonderer Ort

Wer in Wien Wiener Würsteln bestellt, der hat schon verloren. Denn in Wien heißen die Wiener Würsteln Frankfurter. Dazu aber ... more...		 Categories:
Food & Drink, Wienerisch