![]() The walk continues through parts of the picturesque old centre and around the Hofburg, the Habsburg winter palace, a vast agglomeration from six centuries of building activity. Visit the Stephansdom, the magnificent Gothic cathedral which is adorned with fine paintings and sculpture. Drive to the outskirts to visit the hospital church ‘Am Steinhof’ by Otto Wagner, the apogee of Secessionist art and architecture. The Museum of Applied Arts has excellent international and Viennese collections, strikingly displayed. Pass the former railway station pavilions by Wagner and Olbrich and visit the Secession building, built in 1898 as an exhibition hall for avant-garde artists and containing Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze. Some free time before an apéritif and dinner in the hotel’s own excellent restaurant. Introductory walk through the Roman and medieval core to see a cross-section of architecture including Gothic and Baroque churches and some of Vienna’s most enchanting streetscapes. ![]() 11.00am from London Heathrow to Vienna (British Airways). The city regularly comes top in the rankings of most liveable city in the world in the Economist Intelligence Unit annual survey.Īs with the planning of all our Christmas tours, careful research into seasonal closures and several special arrangements enable us to provide a full programme of visits.įly at c. In Vienna the magnificent mixes with the unpretentiously charming, imperial display with the Gemütlichkeit of the coffee houses. Tucked behind the imposing palaces and public buildings are narrow alleys and ancient courtyards which survive from the medieval and Renaissance city. Around the turn of the century there was an explosion of artistic and intellectual activity which placed Vienna in the forefront of Art Nouveau – here known as Secessionism – and the development of modernism. The great Gothic cathedral bears witness to the city’s status in the Middle Ages as the most important city in Danubian Europe the Church of St Charles and numerous Baroque palaces demonstrate that by the beginning of the 18th century Austria had become one of the great powers.ĭuring the 19th century, when the Empire reached a peak of prosperity and prestige, a splendid range of historicist buildings was added, notably on the Ringstrasse, the grand boulevard which encircles the medieval core. The Kunsthistorisches Museum ranks with the best of Europe’s art collections, and the Court Treasury is without peer for its historic regalia and objets d’art. It is a relic, but a glorious relic, and one of the world’s foremost centres of art, architecture and music. Today it is an imperial city without an empire. ![]() Vienna was once the seat of the Habsburgs, the centre of the Holy Roman Empire and capital of a multinational agglomeration of territories which encompassed much of Central and Eastern Europe.
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