Vienna is certainly one of the oldest cities not only in Europe, but in the world..Its origins date back to the Roman era: what did the people of Vienna not see and what memories do not its ancient stones preserve?.Here lived and the Roman legions, and hordes of barbarians, who were then replaced by varying degrees of courtesan knights .Once upon a time, the Mongolian hordes were also stopped near Vienna, and bloodthirsty, fearing all over Europe at that time were defeated, the Ottoman Turks .But is it not enough that one of the oldest capitals of Europe survived? Today Vienna is a city of waltzes, arts, galleries, museums and exquisite park ensembles .But at the same time, the city is absolutely imperial in spirit, the capital of the most multinational European empire is .Vienna retained many features inherent in the capitals of large state entities .Majestic temples, luxurious residences of the most august persons and nobles, theaters, opera halls, wide squares and avenues .Vienna is considered to be one of the most beautiful and interesting capitals of the world .It is impossible not to mention a set of stamps, although very pleasant: Mozart, Strauss, strudel, schnitzel and coffee .All this and even a little more on the streets of Vienna can be found with an excess of .
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How to get to Vienna?
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Schwechat Airport is located about 10 km southeast of Vienna. You can reach the city center by:
- taxi for 25 EUR
- Express buses that depart from the airport to the capital from 5:30 to 00:00. One route to the City Air Terminal, another (at 60-minute intervals) - to the South or West train stations
- S-Bahn (logo - two red brackets on a white background) that run towards the center of Vienna until the Landstrasse / Wien Mitte stop, next to U3, U4, the bus station. Departure every half hour from 05:09 to 00:09. The fare is 3 EUR. The ticket must be purchased before the trip in the machine on the platform (the machine does not accept bills more than 50 euros). Travel time 25 minutes.
- speed train-shuttle SAT (City Airport Train), which also goes to the stop Landstrasse / Wien Mitte every half hour. The train follows without stops, the journey time is 16 minutes. The fare is 9 EUR, in two ends - 16 EUR. The ticket is purchased in the vending machine (the CAT logo when leaving the arrival hall), as well as at the Landstrasse / Wien Mitte stop. With the Vienna card the ticket can be purchased from the conductor for 7, 50 EUR.
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Weather in Vienna
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| night | + 0 | + 1 | + 4 | + 8 | + 13 | + 16 | + 18 | + 18 | + 14 | + 9 | + 5 | + 0 |
The local climate is temperate, subalpine. Summer can be quite hot and long. Winters are usually snowy and cold. At all times of the year windy weather prevails in the city. The tourist season starts in April and lasts until the end of October. The best time to visit Vienna is late spring and early autumn.
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Transport
Vienna City Transport consists of buses, trams, U-Bahn (suburban) and commuter trains (S-Bahn). For convenience of movement around the city, it is better to buy a Vienna transport card: it will significantly reduce the cost of travel. If staying in Vienna will last only a few days, disposable tickets are more profitable. Tickets can be purchased at stations in the subway, as well as in tobacco-newspaper kiosks (Tabak-Trafik).
For children under 14 years old, public transport is free on Sundays, public holidays and during vacations in Austrian schools.
In May 2010, a new berth was opened in the center of Vienna, which connects the Austrian capital with the capital of Slovakia.
The municipality of Vienna arranged for free bicycle rental for tourists. Parking lots can be seen almost everywhere in the city center. To open the lock, you need to enter your bank card into the machine (so that no crazy thoughts arise to appropriately own yourself). And you can take and rent a car to quietly explore the surroundings of the Austrian capital.
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Vienna hotels
In terms of accommodation Vienna is a very expensive city. However, this problem can be solved. For example, it is not located in the very center where prices really go off scale, or choose a simpler option if the place is important, and comfort is not so important.
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Book popular Vienna hotels at the best prices
| Grand Hotel Wien from 18 126 rubles Vienna Kärntner Ring 9 | The Ring - Vienna's Casual Luxury Hotel from 13 646 rubles Vienna Kärntner Ring 8 | Fleming's Deluxe Hotel Wien-City from 6 203 rubles Vienna Josefstädter Straße 10-12 |
| Hotel City Central from 3,722 rubles Vienna Taborstraße 8 A | InterCityHotel Wien from 4 342 rubles Vienna Mariahilferstraße 122, Ecke Kaiserstraße 1-3 | Hotel Capricorno from 6 479 rubles Vienna Schwedenplatz 3-4 |
| Das Capri from 5 032 rubles Vienna Praterstraße 44 | Hotel Kaffeemühle from 1,861 rubles Vienna Kaiserstraße 45 | Hotel Kärntnerhof from 5,445 rubles Vienna Grashofgasse 4 |
| Kolping Wien Zentral from 2 413 rubles Vienna Gumpendorfer Straße 39 | Hotel Cyrus from 1 655 rubles Vienna Laxenburger Straße 14 | Hotel Terminus from 2 757 rubles Vienna Fillgradergasse 4 |
Viennese stores
Trade in elegant and expensive things is conducted in the "golden triangle" between Hofburg, opera and Stefan's Cathedral in the streets of Lohlmarkt, Graben and Karntner Strabe. Shopping is also practiced on the shopping streets of Favoritenstra, Landstra and Meidlinger Hauptstra, Mariahilfer. On the street Margaretenstraße there are original designer shops. The youngest of them is Samstag.
Antiques sold in Europe's largest "Dorotheum" (Dorotheergasse 17) and stores next to him. Those who are interested in fashionable jewelry, it is worth to visit the department store "Shipekk". In the shopping center Shopping City Sud on the southern outskirts of the city everything is collected under one roof.
It is also worth a stroll to the Naschmarkt market, which has existed since the 18th century and is considered to be the largest urban market in Vienna (working hours from Mon to Sat). Here you can buy: vegetables and fruits, fish and meat, bread and cheese, Persian caviar and sushi, oysters and other outlandish goods from the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Japan and China. In addition, every Saturday near Nashmarkt is home to the famous Viennese flea market.
An interesting souvenir from Vienna will be playing cards Piatnik, which are made since 1824 or glass balls with snow.
Vienna Airport "Schwechat" is famous for its huge "Duty free", which even with the greatest desire it is impossible to get by completely less than an hour.
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Cuisine and restaurants in Vienna
Vienna - a paradise for lovers of coffee and sweet tooth: numerous Viennese cafes and restaurants have long become an integral attribute of the city..The most famous are the classical Maria Theresa, the fashionable Do-and-Ko, the modernist Museum, Freud's favorite café Landman, the respectable Sacher Philharmonikerstrasse 4, U1, U2, U4 Karlsplatz and Havelka "(The walls of the latter are decorated with paintings left for payment by famous artists, Dorotheergasse 6), as well as" Dommayer ", where Strauss made his debut ±$."Sugaring" to the full, it is worth entering into an old sandwich Trzesniewski .
When the sun shines, the people of Vienna and their guests like to sit in the Shanigartins. These mobile outdoor cafes are real oases of a relaxing holiday.
Urban Heurige restaurants are currently experiencing a real innovation boom .Hoirigers (also called "bushchenshank") are typical Viennese wine taverns on the outskirts of the city, in which wine is spilled only from own production .Of course, there are still plenty of classic wine taverns, for example, in Grinzing or Stammersdorf .There are also new, ambitious architecturally speaking heurigers, wine cellars and businesses, such as Rainer Christ in Jädlersdorf or Stefan Heiszan in Heiligenstadt .Unusual, a new type of Heiriger "Bushenshank in residence" offers Jutta Kalhbrenner .The young winemaker rents several times a year an old 400-year-old farm in Sivering and offers there own wine of his own (Jutta Ambrositsch winemaking) and exquisite dishes .
In Vienna, tap water is not only possible, but it is also necessary to drink. In the local water supply, it comes directly from Styria - the high-mountain region, and is considered a spring water, with minimal addition of chemistry.
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Discount card Wien karte
The Vienna Card offers 210 various discounts in museums, shops and restaurants of the city, as well as free travel by metro, bus and tram for 72 hours. The cost of the card is 18, 5 EUR.
Discounts are available at the Schönbrunn Palace, the Kaiser's Apartments, the Sissi Museum in the Hofburg, the Art History Museum, the Albertina, the Lichtenstein Museum and the Vienna Museum Museum, as well as the Hundertwasser Clock Museum and House.
Wien karte can be purchased at hotels; in the tourist office at: 1, Albertinaplatz, from 9:00 to 19:00; in the places of sale of tickets for public transport and in information offices of the Vienna Lines (in Stefansplatz, Karlsplatz, the Western Railway Station, Landstrasse). Or order online at www.wienkarte.at.
Entertainment, Excursions and Attractions of Vienna
Visit Vienna and do not visit the masterpiece of Gothic architecture of the 12th century St. Stephen's Cathedral, St. Peter's Church, the Hofburg Palace or the Belvedere - at least a mauveen. Attention also deserve: The State Museum of Art is one of the main treasures of world art, the Belvedere Palace is a collection of Austrian painting of the early 20th century, Schönbrunn ("Beautiful Castle") - an imperial residence no less famous than Versailles or Tsarskoe Selo, the Vienna Opera, the Burgtheater . There are more than 80 museums in the city.
Places that can not be ignored: Imperial chapel, Donaurtur observation tower - the highest point of the city, Plague Column and other monuments of Vienna, the Museum of Medical History with a collection of wax models of human organs, instruments for operations and t .д .Judenplatz is an old Jewish quarter, famous for its medieval synagogue, museums and a memorial to Austrian Jews who died during the Holocaust..65-meter ferris wheel with spectacular city views, the Sigmund Freud Museum in the apartment where he lived and worked from 1891 to 1938 .More information about other sights of Vienna, as well as the ten main "must-see" of the Austrian capital, see on the page "Sights of Vienna" .
One of the modern symbols of Vienna is the residential house of the Hundertwasserhaus, built on the project of the Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser in 1983-1986. The building itself is remarkable for its "hilly" floors, the roof is covered with earth and grass, and trees are planted in some rooms.
And, of course, the famous museum quarter of Vienna MQ ("Mukva"). Here behind the facade of the baroque imperial stables are hidden gray concrete cubes of modern architecture and museums: Leopold, a collection of Austrian art of the late 19th - early 21st century and modern art. And also cafes, shops and benches for rest. Address: Museumsplatz 1.
Children and teenagers under the age of 19 have the right to enter the federal museums and city museums in Vienna free of charge, including the Zoom Children's Museum in the Museum Quarter.
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Popular Excursions in Vienna
The main excursions around the city and the suburbs (the cost of the excursion per person in a group of 8 or more people is indicated): a sightseeing tour around Vienna is 3, 5 hours (a walk along Ringstrasse, where the main sights are located, a visit to Schonbrunn Palace, the former residence of the Royal House of Habsburgs ) ~ 25 EUR .Excursion to the Vienna Woods - 3, 5 hours (Vienna Forest, Baden, Helenental, Cistercian Abbey of the Holy Cross, Liechtenstein Castle, underground lake Seegrotte) ~ 25 EUR .Excursion to the Wachau Valley - 7 hours (visiting ancient castles, including the castle Durnstein, which was once the prison of King Richard the Lionheart, Benedictine Abbey Melk - the pearl of the Austrian Baroque, a walk along the Danube from Melk to Durnstein) ~ 50 EUR ±$ The .Excursion to Vienna at night (3 hours) ~ 25 EUR .
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Excursion "Viennese forest"
This excursion program includes an inspection of the southern suburbs of Vienna, located in the Vienna Woods area - one of the most beautiful corners of Austria..The route begins with a sightseeing tour around the city of Baden, which is known all over the world for its thermal springs and winemaking (wine tasting in one of the wine cellars is included in the tour price) .During the sightseeing tour of Baden, tourists get acquainted with the main sights and history of the city, after which the tour will continue in the Spa Park, where travelers will visit the oldest casino in Austria and the house where the great composer Beethoven lived .
In addition, the tour includes an inspection of the Cistercian Monastery of the Holy Cross (Heiligenkreuz) with the tomb of Babenberg, the medieval castle of Liechtenstein and the hunting lodge of the Habsburgs in the village of Mayerling, which became notorious in 1889 due to the double suicide of the Crown Prince Rudolf and his lover . In addition, the program includes a visit to the Helenental Valley, and at the end of the tour, participants will be able to ride a boat on the underground lake Seegrotte.
The duration of the tour is about four hours. Of course, you can walk around the Vienna Woods without purchasing a group excursion, and sitting on bus number 38A.
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