Things To Do In VIENNA Austria. Vienna Top 10 Travel Guide. I’m Rok and I’ve spent last 8 years travelling around Europe as a tour guide and I want to show you my favourite 10 Things To Do In Vienna Austria. I prepared this Vienna travel guide to take you around Vienna old town, and other popular areas of Austrian Capital, to show you What to do in Vienna.
Things To Do In VIENNA:
00:00 - Intro
0:52 - 10. Graben: a famous pedestrian shopping area in the heart of the historical city centre. It is filled with 17th and 18th-century palaces, fountains, columns and restaurants and coffee houses including the oldest café and bakery in Vienna.
2:43 - 9. Town Hall: amazing neo-Gothic style building dominated by its 98 meters or 320 feet tower and its so-called town hall man on the top, that has become a symbol of Vienna. The City Hall also has one of the biggest inner courtyards in Europe and the biggest ballroom in the country.
3:33 - 8. Hundertwasser House: exceptional piece of modern architecture designed by the artist Hundertwasser. Every apartment is in a different color, the roof is covered with earth and grass, and large trees are growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows.
4:33 - 7. Vienna State Opera House: one of the world's largest and most splendid theatres. It is considered to be one of the leading opera houses in the world. Every night, you can witness world-class artists and each season the schedule features 350 performances of more than 60 different operas and ballets.
5:51 - 6. Giant Ferries Wheel: ferris Wheel in Vienna is a landmark and unmistakable silhouette on the Vienna skyline. It is the oldest still existing Giant Ferries Wheel in the world. It was erected in 1897 to mark the 50th years of rule of Emperor Franz Joseph and It was one of the earliest Ferris wheels ever built.
7:13 - 5. Imperial Treasury: the most important treasury in the world with Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire from the 10th century. They also have the Austrian imperial crown made in 16 hundred, the biggest emerald in the world and The Holy Grail.
8:38 - 4. Belvedere - Vienna museums: the 18-century palaces served as the summer residence for the successful commander Prince Eugene of Savoy. Today they house one of Austria's most valuable art collections. In the heart of the Belvedere collection are 24 paintings of Gustav Klimt including world famous"The Kiss” painting.
10:05 - 3. Imperial Palace: for more than six centuries it was one of the most important centres of European history. From here the Habsburgs ruled their great empire until the end of First World war in 1918.
11:47 - 2. St. Stephan Cathedral: for more than 800 years it was a landmark of Vienna that survived earthquakes, storms, and wars until the last 2 weeks of the 2nd World War when it was burned to the ground. It took only 7 years to rebuild it and it became a symbol for the reconstruction of Austria.
13:48 - 1. Schonbrunn palace Vienna: the most popular attraction in Austria. This huge and amazing Baroque palace complex has some of the most important architectural, cultural, and historical monuments in the country. It is the former summer residence of the Habsburgs, with astonishing 1,441 rooms.
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P.S.: Rok is a traveler, a filmmaker and a tour guide. On this travel channel he is combining his 20 years of travelling experience, his 10 years of filmmaking experience and his 8 years of tour guiding experience.