Vienna First Impressions ( 2 Hours ) During this tour you will see the most impressive buildings of this wonderful city. On the RINGSTRASSE we pass the HOFBURG (the imperial Habsburg winter residence), the two MUSEUMS, the PARLIAMENT, the TOWN HALL, the BURGTHEATER, the UNIVERSITY and finally the VOTIVKIRCHE. Then we will visit the oldest […]
Vienna Grand City Tour ( 3½ – 4 Hours ) This tour includes all the sights of “Vienna First Impressions”, and is extended by the visit of SCHÖNBRUNN PALACE (the imperial Habsburg summer residence) including the wonderful gardens and the baroque BELVEDERE PALACE with its famous view over Vienna. (Entrance fees are not included in […]
Vienna Art Nouveau (4 Hours ) In the 19th century Vienna became one of the most famous centres of the “Art Nouveau”, called after the magazine JUGEND (i.e. YOUTH), founded in Munich in 1896. Beside the floral ornamental decorative style which uses curved lines a second style representing an austere, straight-lined and functional direction was […]
Vienna Panorama Tour ( 3 Hours ) Passing the most impressive neo classicist buildings along the RINGSTRASSE we will drive you through the Praterstrasse, pass the place where Johann Strauß composed his famous “Blue Danube”- waltz to the Praterstern square with the TEGETTHOFF-Memorial reminding us of the former size of the imperial navy. We continue […]
Vienna The Jewish History ( 4 Hours ) This tour includes the sights visited in tour “VienNa First Impressions” and in addition you will see the JUDENPLATZ with the old synagoge, the excavations on the Judenplatz and the house “Zum großen Jordan”. When possible, the synagoge at Seitenstettengasse can be visited as well. The tour […]
The Vienna Woods ( 5 Hours ) First you will visit LIECHTENSTEIN CASTLE (12th century) before going on a boat trip on Europe`s largest underground lake in the SEEGROTTE.Then we will see the Cistercian Abbey at HEILIGENKREUZ (12th century) with its unique cloister,and continue to MAYERLING, where Prince Rudolf of Habsburg and Mary Vetsera committed […]
The Danube Valley ( 7 – 8 Hours Tour ) The 33 km between the towns KREMS and MELK are called WACHAU, one of the most beautiful European river landscapes. Far back in the Stone Age this valley was already inhabited. KREMS was first mentioned on an Arabic map of the world as Germesia. On […]
The Austrian Alps ( 7 Hours ) Its only a short drive to the nearest mountains. A pass road will take you to the SEMMERING where a coffee stop in one of the luxuriuos turn of the century hotels will prepare you for the drive through the wild – romantic ADLITZGRÄBEN to REICHENAU – a […]
Burgenland ( 7 – 8 Hours ) After World War I the former German-West Hungary became Austrian. The Hungarian atmosphere has been preserved until today. In its capital town EISENSTADT we will visit the Memorial Church with its Calvary and the tomb of the famous composer Joseph Haydn. At LAKE NEUSIEDL, the largest steppe lake […]
Salzburg (12 Hours) On our way to Mozart´s town of birth you become acquainted with the beautiful Salzkammergut landscape with it´s mountains and it´s numerous lakes, where the Emperor Franz Joseph and his family used to spend their holidays. Skirting the Lake Fuschl and Lake Wolfgang you reach Salzburg, where you will have time for […]