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Vienna top tips
Experience Vienna! – Vienna with kids!
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Your stay in Vienna in general and particularly in our apartments will be a four-star experience. The apartments provided by the Fleger family are conveniently located and have easy access to Vienna’s excellent and safe public transport network. You can relax, spend your days sightseeing, enjoy the various cultural offers, or do sports – everything is within easy reach.
Here at our reception the Vienna Pass is available – All of Vienna on one card:
- Free admission to over 60 attractions
- Unlimited free rides on the HOP ON HOP OFF buses by Vienna Sightseeing
- Fast track entry
Vienna Top Tipps – Vienna is always worth visting!
Are you traveling to Vienna on your vacation, or are you planning to visit Vienna as part of a business trip? No matter for what reason you live in Vienna on time, with our top tips in Vienna we offer suggestions for every season to make your stay in Vienna varied! Vienna is always worth a visit.
Vienna top tips July
Hier finden Sie unsere Tipps für Ihren Wien Aufenthalt im Juli. So ist Wien immer eine Reise wert.
Exhibitions: Old Masters from the Hermitage. Masterpieces from Botticelli to van Dyck (June 6 – September 2, 2018)
Vienna is to host one of Europe´s most outstanding collections of paintings, that of Tsarina Catherine the Great at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, featuring a dozen paintings by Tintoretto, Poussin, van Dyck, Rembrandt, and other great masters. In combination with works from the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna this stellar selection of masterpieces is certain to create an exciting dynamic.
(1., KHM – Kunsthistorisches Muesum Vienna, www.khm.at)
Music Film Festival at City Hall Square (June 30 – September 2, 2018)
The biggest and best known Film- and Food-Festival in Europe offers a unique mixture of music films of all genres with big names – admission is free. In combination with the gastronomic offer the special atmosphere will once again attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world.
(1., Rathausplatz, www.filmfestival-rathausplatz.at)
9th Vienna Popfest (July 26 – 29, 2018)
The Vienna Popfest offers Austrian musicians and a number of guests a highly respected live platform for innovative pop music in its various guises. The playing continues for four days and nights on the Kunstplatz Karlsplatz, both open-air and indoors in the art and culture establishments. The admission to the Popfest – including 60 music acts – is free!
(4., Karlsplatz, www.popfest.at)
Vienna top tips August
Moriz Nähr. Photography and Vienna Modernism (August 24 – October 29, 2018)
Moriz Nähr (1859-1945) is considered to be one of the most important innovators of phtotgraphy in Vienna around 1900. Nähr formed a life-long artistic friendship with Klimt. Numerous portrait shots of Klimt document this. In reserve, Klimt also took inspirations from the motifs of Nähr. The show presents the different working styles of Nähr: landscape, architecture and portrait photography, “Street Photography” (Naschmarkt scenes) and documentation of the Secession exhibitions.
(7. Leopold Museum, www.leopoldmuseum.org)
Africa Days Vienna (August 10-27, 2018)
The Africa Days celebrate pure joie de vivre with captivating rhythms, imaginative costumes and delicious food transforming Danube Island into a center of happiness.
(21. Danube Island – located between the U6 metro stations Neue Donau und Handelskai, www.afrika-tage.at)
Vienna Major on Danube Island (August 1-5 2018)
Vienna is set to become a Mecca for beach volleyball fans again. After the huge success of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in 2017, the world elite of beach volleyball is returning to Danube Island in 2018. At the first Vienna Major in the city, the best beach volleyball players will deliver thrilling moments.
(21., Danube Island – located between the bridge Floridsdorfer Brücke and the U6/railway bridge, https://at.beachmajorseries.com)
Vienna top tips September
Hier finden Sie unsere Tipps für Ihren Wien Aufenthalt im September. So ist Wien immer eine Reise wert.
Culture capital in fall 2018: viennacontemporary (September 27 – 30, 2018), Parallel Vienna (September 26 – 30, 2018) an curated by (September 14 – October 13, 2018)
The art fair viennacontemporary presents contemporary art with a focus on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Marx Halle in the 3rd district.
Arount 100 galleries across Vienna:
That is the concept of curated by. The main topic of this year’s festival focuses on the city of Vienna itself – with its historic and present-day potentials in the area of contemporary art.
By contast, Parallel Vienna presents divergent positions of young and etablished contemporary art.
(www.viennacontemporary.at www.parallelvieanna.com www.curatedby.com)
Buskers Festival (07.09.-09.9.2018)
The Karlsplatz will be transformed into Vienna’s biggest venue of international street art of highest quality. With free admission, the Buskers Festival will offer clowns, juggling and acrobatics, Graffiti, various styles of music, dance and performance art, object theatre and improvisational theatre, as well as fire-eating.
(4., Karlsplatz, www.buskers.at)
“Bodyguard – The Musical” (From September 27, 2018 until June 2019)
The German Stage version os the 90s movie hit brings glamor and romance to the stage at the Ronacher – with the fantastic original songs by Whitney Houston.
With over 45 million recordings sold, the Bodyguard is the most successful film music album of all time. In the German-language production (Austrian premiere!), the songs are sung in English.
(1., Ronacher, www.musicalvienna.at)
Vienna top tips Oktober
Hier finden Sie unsere Tipps für Ihren Wien Aufenthalt im Oktober. So ist Wien immer eine Reise wert.
Exhibition
Bruegel (October 2, 2018 – January 13, 2019)
2019 sees the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. To mark the occasion the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is dedicating the world’s first ever major monograph exhibition to the artist widely regarded as the 16th century’s greatest Netherlandish painter. The museum owns by far the largest collection of wooden panels and along with many paintings an loan from international museums and private collections, the overview of Bruegel’s entire oeuvre is set to be nothing short of sensational.
(1., Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, www.khm.at)
Music
“Bodyguard – The Musical” (September 27, 2018 to June 2019)
The German stage version of the 90s movie hit brings glamor and romance to the stage at the Ronacher – with the fantastic original songs by Whitney Houston. With over 45 million recordings sold, the Bodyguard is the most successful film music album of all time. In the German-language production (Austrain premiere!), the songs are sung in English.
(1., Ronacher, www.musicalvienna.at)
Vienna Design Week (September 28 – 0ctober 7, 2018)
Vienna Design Week turns the city into an annual design hotspot for ten days. This year’s guest country, Poland, will be represented throughout Vienna Design Week. An important location is the 7th district, where the festival headquarters will be located. In addition to the information point, pop-up café and the green courtyard garden, there are numerous exhibitions, talks and workshops to visit. One of the focal points is virtual and augmented reality.
(different locations, www.viennadesignweek.at)
Vienna top tips November
Vienna Art Week (November 19 – 25, 2018)
Promising Paradise: Vienna Art Week offers a packed programm of podium discussions, talks, interviews with artists, special guided tours, installations, interventions and perfomances. Around 70 partners, including the city’s leading museums and galleries as well as independent exhibition venues and alternative spaces, will stage a combined total of more than 200 events for art fans.
(different locations, Information and full program: Https://2018.viennaartweek.at)
15th KlezMORE Festival (November 10 – 25, 2018)
Jewish klezmer music has a long tradition and thrills audiences in November with sirring melodies and high-spirited singing. The festival offers varied dialoges in a thriving multicultural metropolis of the 21st century. Ensembles from around the world make music in different Viennese theaters and music clubs.
(different locations, Informations and full program: www.klezmore-festival.at)
Christmas Markets in Vienna (November 16 – December 26. 2018)
Tourists and locals are equally attracted by the profusion of Vienna’s Advent markets and stunning Christmas lights. There is something for everyone. Traditionalists head for the large Advent markets in the city center, such as the Vienna Christmas Dream on Rathausplatz, the Christmas market Schloss Schönbrunn (at Schönbrunn Palace) and the Christmas Village in front of the Belvedere Palace have a distinctly imperial feel, as does the Christmas village on Maria-Theresien-Platz, located between the Natural History Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
(www.wienerweihnachtstraum.at, www.weihnachtsmarkt.co.at)
Vienna top tips December
Advent Concerts at St. Stephen´s Cathedral (30 November – 23 December 2018)
Viennese classical music sounds particularly solemn on brass instruments. In St. Stephen´s Cathedral, the soloists of the Wiener KammerOrchester perform Advent concerts with trumpet accompaniment. On the Advent weekends compositions by Mozart, Bach, Schubert and Haydn and the most beautiful carols are played. (www.kunstkultur.com)
New Year´s Eve Trail & New Year´s Eve Ball at the Hofburg Vienna (December 31, 2018)
For New Year´s Eve Vienna offers a spectacular mix of events. From 2 p.m. Vienna´s historic old town transforms into one giant venue for a pulsating party of around 600,000 people following the New Year´s Eve Trail (www.wien-event.at). The legendary charm of Vienna´s traditional balls and the imperial luster create an unforgettable atmosphere at the New Year´s Eve Ball at the Hofburg Vienna. (www.hofburgsilvesterball.com)
House of Austrian History (November 10, 2018)
On the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Austria the House of Austrian History opened in November. It focuses on the history of Austria from 1918 to the present day. The House of History Austria is located in the historic premises of the New Castle on Heldenplatz. (www.hdgoe.at)
Vienna top tips January
Erwin Wurm. Peace & Plenty. (November 21, 2018 – February 17, 2019)
The Albertina exhibits the collected drawings of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm until February 17, 2019. “Peace & Plenty” is not only the name of the hotel in George Town/Great Exumas where many of the drawings were created but also an allusion to the extent of Erwin Wurm’s work. He has done hundreds of works on paper over the past three years that range from pencil drawings to watercolors and collages. The drawings are storehouses of ideas, reflections and commentaries on the world and much like a diary, they offer a rare insight into the artist’s creative process. (1., Albertina, www.albertina.at)
Ball Season
Each year Vienna hosts around 450 balls, from elegant high society galas to wild carnival parties. Enjoy the three-quarter rhythm of the waltz at the Confectioners’Ball (17.1.), Rainbow Ball (26.1.), Vienna Coffeehouse Owners’Ball (22.2.), Opera Ball (28.2.) and many more. (Further dates: www.vienna.info)
Vienna Ice World (January 18 – March 3, 2019)
A paradise for ice skaters of every age is the huge ice rink at the beautiful city Hall Square. A magical ice path winding through the romantic city Hall Park and curling lanes wait for sporty visitiors. Warming drinks are available at outdoor booths and in the popular Almhütte. The so-called Little Ice Dream is already open from November 16, 2018 to January 6, 2019 as part of the Vienna Christams World on Rathausplatz. (1., Rathausplatz, www.wienereistraum.com)
Vienna top tips February
Rubens to Makart – Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections (February 16 – June 10, 2019)
In 2019 the creation of the imperial principality of Liechtenstein lies exactly 300 years in the past. This event is being celebrated by the Albertina with the exhibition “Rubens to Makart”, which shows the entire breadth of the Princely Collection for the first time. At the center of the exhibition will be works such as the Venus by Peter Paul Rubens, the life-sized bronze sculpture of Christ in Distress by Adriaen de Vries and the recently acquired Bronze Bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. (1., Albertina, www.albertina.at)
20 th International Accordion-Festival 2019 (February 23 – March 24, 2019)
The 20 th International Accordion Festival w
ill present accordion music in all its many facets starting on February 23 and continuing for a whole month at Numerous well-known Viennese venues. Fans of accordion music can look forward to both traditional styles as well as experimental sounds. (different locations, information and full program: www.akkordeonfestival.at)
Ice Skating and Curling in Vienna
If you are in the mood for ice skating under the open sky, you can make your turns at the Vienna Ice Skating Club (until March 3, 2019) or at Engelmann artificial ice rink (until March 10, 2019). Besides a spectacular ice rink, the Vienna Ice World (until March 3, 2019) offers eight lanes, on which sporty curling players can put their skills to the test. Until March, the “ParadEIS” around the Badeschiff (Pool Boat) on the Danube Canal promises a successful winter’s evening with four curling lanes (two on land, two on the pool boat itself). (Further Information: www.wien.info)
Vienna top tips March
Art
Foto Vienna (March 20 – April 20, 2019)
For an entire month, photography will be the focus of Vienna´s art scene. The new photo-festival shines a light on the local photography scene but also encourages international cooperation, for example with guest country France. Organized by the Kunst Haus Wien, many exhibitions as well es discussions and workshops will be part oft he festival, which has its festival center at Otto Wagner´s Postsparkasse on Ringstrasse. (www.photovienna.at)
Wining & Dining
Vienna Restaurant Week (March 18 – 24, 2019)
The Vienna Restaurant Week is one of the culinary highlights of the year and offers an ideal opportunity for experiencing the wide variety of high-end dining the city has to offer. Around 75 leading restaurants with up to three toques each participate in the culinary week and offer excellent menus at a reduced fixed price. (www.restaurantwoche.wien)
Family Tipp
Circque du Soleil: Totem (March 12 – April 22, 2019)
The evolution of humanity from its primordial, amphibian state toward the aspiration of flight is at the center of Circque du Soleil´s newest show “Totem”, which celebrates its long-awaited Austrian premier in March. Breathtaking acrobatics, dramatic effects, newest technology and a hint of comedy lead audiences into a world of pure magic. (Neu Marx, www.cirquedusoleil.com)
Vienna top tips April
City of Women Female Artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 (January 25 – May 19, 2019 )
The impressive output of a group of bold female artists from the era of viennese Modernism and the First Republic orm the focus of a retrospective at the Belvedere. (3., Lower Belvedere, Orangery – Belvedere – Unteres Belvedere & Orangerie – www.belvedere.at)
36. Vienna City Marathon (April 7, 2019 )
The Vienna City Marathon is a huge international event htat leads 42.000 runners from 130 nations past Vienna’s most beautiful sights. A million spectators encourage them. (Information, packages & registration: www.vienna-marathon.com)
Vienna’s Easter Markets (Apr 3 – 23, 2019 )
Vienna’s Easter markets offer traditonal and crafted gift ideas, culinary treats, a music program and a veried children’s program in front of Schönbrunn Palace (13., Schloss Schönbrunn, www.ostermarkt.co.at), on Freyung (1., Freyung, www.altwieder-markt.at) and Am Hof square (1., Am Hof, www.ostermarkt-hof.at)
