The official outdoor tour! Why not take a walk with us around the St. Stephen's Cathedral and discover the most important landmark and symbol of Vienna!This tour was created in cooperation with St. Stephen’s Cathedral.

St. Stephen’s Outdoor Experience

Vienna is full of history! Discover it by walking through the small alleys around the Rotenturmstraße. Every corner and cobblestone will tell you about the genesis of the city. If you are tired, we recommend visiting one of the famous Viennese coffeehouses. 

Explore the Heart of Old Vienna

Vienna is new to you, and you are looking to get a nicely well-rounded overview of the old city center? This tour covers historical highlights, reveals fascinating stories, and takes you down a few cobblestone streets that most visitors never see.

Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Vienna

Discover plants from all around the globe: This audio tour of the Palm House Schönbrunn will enable you to discover more than 4,000 plants from every continent.Note: The Palm House Schönbrunn is not to be confused with the Café Palmenhaus. The café is located in the Burggarten.

The Emperor's Greenhouse: Palm House

Attention! This tour includes saucy details and is not appropriate for all under 18 years.From prostitutes, johns, and mistresses to animal skin condoms, syphilis, and wax noses, to Maria Theresia, Metternich, Napoleon, and many more: the dirty secrets and shady sides of Viennese erotic activities over the years come out of the shadows in this tour. This tour was created in cooperation with wienfuehrung.

Love for Sale in Old Vienna

Naschmarkt not only offers culinary highlights but also architectural ones: the Art Deco and Viennese Modern Age buildings by Otto Wagner. This tour starts at the subway station Kettenbrückengasse and passes through Naschmarkt to Karlsplatz where two pavillons by Otto Wagner can be visited. If there's enough time afterwards, you could take the U4 in either the direction of Heiligenstadt or Hütteldorf and get out at one of the beautiful old Stadtbahn (city railway) station buildings that are still in use today.

Otto Wagner and Naschmarkt

Rent a bike, Segway, or scooter and explore the best Vienna has to offer on wheels. With your wheels, you can cover a lot of ground, meaning you’ll finish this tour with a well-rounded overview of the makeup of this old dame of a city and the stories it has to tell. Attention: Leave your phone in your pocket while driving and don't forget to keep your distance. Stay safe!

Vienna On Wheels: From Schönbrunn Palace to Stubentor

Get yourself a ride and head out on this exciting tour on which you’ll catch many sides of Vienna that most visitors never see. You’ll get started at the magnificent Hundertwasserhaus and end it all in the wine hills with a glass of delicious wine or grape juice in hand and a spectacular view over Vienna. Attention: Leave your phone in your pocket while driving and don't forget to keep your distance. Stay safe!

Vienna On Wheels: From Hundertwasserhaus up to the Wine Hills

Waltz through the city and discover the places that inspired great musicians that have walked Vienna’s streets. Meet Beethoven, Mozart, and the Strausses and find out more about the role Vienna has played in the history of music.

A Music Lover’s Guide to Vienna

Leave your phone in your pocket while driving and don't forget to keep your distance. Stay safe!

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Get yourself a ride and head out on this exciting tour on which you’ll catch many sides of Vienna that most visitors never see. You’ll get started at the magnificent Hundertwasserhaus and end it all in the wine hills with a glass of delicious wine or grape juice in hand and a spectacular view over Vienna.

Attention: Leave your phone in your pocket while driving and don't forget to keep your distance. Stay safe!

We hope you enjoyed your time exploring Vienna on wheels and learning about this magnificent city! This tour has been put together by the Cultural Places team, in cooperation with the content production agency pow. bang. boom, and Sounds &amp; Words. © 2020

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This wacky looking apartment building is the product of one of the bravest architectural projects the city of Vienna has ever commissioned. The architect and artist behind it, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, saw how we should design our cities and buildings differently. He believed that humans and nature should live in harmony with each other. By spending time at this house and learning about Hundertwasser’s philosophies, you’ll never see a straight line, and the way we build our cities, the same, ever again.&nbsp;

Hundertwasserhaus

Named after the muse of astronomy, this building houses today a college, a cinema and an observatory. This public observatory is the oldest in Vienna and is still used today by stargazers. You can go check it out yourself at night. Its stunning design was executed by Max Fabiani, a student of one of Vienna’s great architects, Otto Wagner.

Urania

Spanning over 6 million square meters, the Prater has always been an integral place in the lives of Vienna’s locals. Located in the park is one of the oldest funfairs in the world, the Wurstelprater. And this funfair possesses a very interesting history. So does the wider park, which is known as the “Green Prater,” and same goes for the giant ferris wheel that arches its way over the Vienna skyline.

Prater

You wouldn’t know it to look at it, but this green oasis of an island is 100% artificial. Well, yeah, okay, the trees, grass and plants are real on it, but the island is man-made. 30 million cubic meters of earth was used to build it between 1972 and 1988. The primary reason for building the island was to prevent flooding, however, today it’s become a beloved recreational paradise for Vienna’s locals.

Donauinsel

Due to restrictions applied to the old city of Vienna as a UNESCO Cultural Heritage site, you won’t find any skyscrapers in the center. Instead, most of Vienna’s modern architecture and high rises are located over here, which is known as the Danube City. Several important international institutions are based over here too, like the United Nations.&nbsp;

Vienna International Center

This iconic feature of Vienna’s skyline is known as the Donauturm, or in English, the Danube Tower. It’s the tallest structure in Austria, and close to the top, houses a revolving restaurant in which you can dine on delicious Austrian cuisine. Not to mention the elevator trip up to the top is one hell of a ride.&nbsp;

Donauturm

The main reason this bridge is worth stopping your ride for is that it’s pretty, and it was built by that Otto Wagner architect we keep going on about. What can we say? He’s defined a lot of how Vienna looks today. This bridge is actually part of a dam structure that regulates the flow of the water going into the Donaukanal, the waterway that weaves through the city center. This old engineering feat also generates electricity today for the city.&nbsp;

Schemerlbrücke

What better way to finish the tour than standing on a mountain at the edge of the city taking in a beautiful view of Vienna. This mountain, like many others, is covered in vineyards and hiking trails that always seem to lead to the charming wine taverns that are iconic in Vienna, known as the Heuriger. We’d strongly suggest you take in the view and end things off with a glass of quality Viennese wine or grape juice in your hand.

Vienna On Wheels: From Hundertwasserhaus up to the Wine Hills

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