A weekend in Vienna
Updated: Oct 6
Vienna, as the center of Austria, offers more than enough cultural experiences to last a lifetime. This makes it all the more difficult to plan just one weekend without missing the highlights.
Start Friday with breakfast at Café Landtmann: a Melange coffee and a "Kipferl" pastry. Cross the Freyung and the Graben to pay a brief visit to St. Stephen's Cathedral and then visit one of the many beautiful courtyards of the surrounding Baroque and Biedermeier houses.
Along the magnificent Ringstrasse you will find many sights: the City Hall and the Parliament, the Vienna State Opera and the Burgtheater - perhaps you will buy tickets for the evening performance right away? Or you can visit one of the beautiful parks on the way, the Burggarten or the Volksgarten with over 3000 rose bushes.
Art and culture on Saturday? Albertina, Kunsthistorisches Museum and the
Museumsquartier have something to offer for every taste with their exhibitions and collections. Or you can combine art with garden architecture and nature: After visiting a current exhibition of the Unteres Belvedere, you walk through the magnificent garden up to the Schloss Belvedere.
After visiting the art collection it is worth visiting the Botanical Garden.
Those who still have energy for art will find modern art in the Belvedere 21 nearby.
And on Sunday get out of the city for a bit. Vienna’s easily accessible green belt offers many walks through the Vienna Woods and the surrounding hills. Afterwards you can enjoy a glass of Grüner Veltliner or Zweigelt at one of the Viennese wine taverns "Heurigen".
But you could also go to the Spittelberg or the Augarten or the Prater but then you should stay a little longer....
