The capital city of Austria is Vienna which is known as one of the most romantic places in Europe. Vienna gives home to several attractions, programs and events, to nice restaurants and countless museums, pubs and parks as well. So in this article we will give some advice which are the most romantic places and where to go on a visit in Vienna.
Our favourite place from our list is the Cafe Sacher. The Cafe Sacher is cafe house from the 19th century and it is definitely one of the most romantic places in the city. The cafe house has excellent cakes and desserts.
If you like ferris wheel then a ride on the Riesenrad Ferris Wheel is one of the best program you can attend. It is a perfect opportunity to check the city from a brand new perspective as you have never seen before. The ferris wheel can be found at the famous Prater Park of the city.
If you like spending time in the nature, having a long walk or a picnic then the perfect place for you to go is the Schloss Schönbrunn. What could be more romantic than having a nice and relaxing picnic in the garden of the beautiful baroque Schloss Schönbrunn?!
If you want to know more on the programs in Vienna check the following site.
The annual Opera Ball in Vienna will be held again in the middle of February in 2015. The Opera Ball is one of the most popular and known events in Vienna which is held each year in the building of the Vienna State Opera.
If you want to experience something unique then you must visit the Opera Ball in Vienna. The Opera Ball is one of the highlights of the carnival season along side with the New Year Concert. The dress code for the ball is evening dress which means white tie and tails for men and full length/ floor length ballgowns for women. The ball is dating back for long, the first Opera Ball in Vienna was held in 1936 but it was suspended during the World War II but after the war it has been annually held.
The Opera Ball attracts many people from all over the world and even some of the famous people has attended the event such as Sophia Loren, Carmen Electra, Geri Halliwell, Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton. The Opera Ball will take place in Vienna, Austria on Thursday 12th February in 2015 from 9 in the evening. Tickets for the ball are already available.
Vienna State Opera (Vienna, Wiener Staatsoper)
Opernring 2, 1010 Wien, Austria
Which are the top events in Vienna in 2015? In this article we will list some of the most interesting and exciting programs in the life of the city during 2015.
Vienna is the capital city of Austria and it is one of the most visited and popular cities in Europe. In 2015 just like in the other years Vienna will host some of the best activities and programs such as the various cultural, music, film, photography and different culinary events as well. The Vienna Opera Ball will be the first festival held in Vienna in 2015.
The Opera Ball will be held from 12th February and it will take place at the wonderful State Opera House in Vienna. Another two awaited festivals in Vienna are the Vienna Jazz Festival which takes place from June until July the exact dates are not confirmed yet and the Vienna Music and Film Festival which will be held from July to August. The Music and Film Festival takes place at the square front of Vienna’s City Hall and it is used as a giant open air cinema. Apart from the festivals Vienna gives home to some of the most popular singers and bands concerts as well.
In 2015 Milky Chance, Katy Perry, Usher, Sting, Charlie Winston, One Direction, Roxette, Nickelback and many others will be on stage in Vienna through the year. Every year when the weather cools down and Christmas is just around the corner the various Christmas markets appears at the different spots of the city.
In 2015 the dates of the Christmas markets are not confirmed yet but the markets open their gates usually in the last weeks of November and they are open until the end of December or the beginning of January.
If you want to know more on the programs, activities, festivals, concerts and exhibitions in Vienna check the following site where you can read more information on the upcoming events in the city.
We almost forgot to mention it, but the biggest event in Vienna in 2015 is probably the Eurovision Song Contest which will be arranged in May 2015. You can read more about it here.
Vienna is an amazing city, and here you can take a look at some pictures and you will understand it even better at once. At these Vienna Panorama pictures you can see some of the most famous attractions in Vienna.
Just scroll down and take a look at all the pictures. Here you can see the Austrian Parliament, lots of pictures from Wurstelprater, see the State Opera and quite some other sites. Please share this article if you like the pictures and let the world see how beautiful Vienna is!
The Austrian Parliament is located by the big ring in Vienna. A beautiful building!Here you can see partly what Prater is about. A wonderful place for families in Vienna.One more panorama picture from Prater in Vienna.Action for young and old in Prater in Vienna.The fabulous Schonbrunn will impress you for sure!The Hungarian State OpereaPanorama of Vienna taken from Haus das Meer.
If you want to see more Vienna pictures, take a look at this article posted about one month ago here in the Vienna Guide. And in case you want to see even more pictures, not all of them panorama pictures, just keep on scrolling down, because now comes some more goodies from Vienna.
The beautiful Gloriette in SchonbrunnA little fish located in Haus das Meer.Another Schonbrunn pictureJohann Strauss in the City Park in Vienna
Are you a fan of Vienna? Maybe you have been to the city a couple of times and long to come back again? Or maybe you have never been there, and now you are here to look for Vienna pictures, and if you like them, then you might visit Vienna for the first time in your life?
Here you can see pictures of some of the most famous attractions in Vienna, for example the Riesenrad (the big Ferris Wheel), quite some pictures from Schönbrunn, from Belvedere and some other Vienna pictures. Enjoy them and if you like them, please share the article on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
Since January 24th and until March 9th the legendary and fantastic ice skating rink will be running in front of the City Hall in Vienna. Do you have some skates to bring with you, come along and try the ice. If you have arrived to Vienna without skates, borrow some skates on the spot and try this fantastic activity in Vienna!
The area in front of the City Hall of Vienna hosts one of the most beautiful Christmas markets in the world from late November until the end of December every year. Then there is a small break, and then from the end of January the traditional ice rink comes to the square and fills as much as 7000 square metres with ice. The longest track on the square gives people the chance of skating as much as 750 metres on the ice, absolutely worth trying.
So, if you are in town and have time, visit the City Hall, or at least the square in front of it, and enjoy a really cool visit to the ice rinks. They are open from 9 in the morning until 22.00 in the evening.
Are you going to visit Vienna in the near future? Here you can find five things to do in Vienna. Read and if you have any thoughts, write a comment.
Guided tour
A guided tour in Vienna is a great investment. Get to know the history of this interesting city, see the most popular attractions and do so on a private guided tour or from a popular tourist bus.
Gastronomy
While in Vienna you must make sure to taste the traditional Sacher cake. This is the most famous cake in Vienna. You should also try the famous Wiener schnitzel.
Beer
While in Vienna you better taste some traditional Austrian beer. Some of the most famous brands are Steffl and Gosser, but if you are lucky you can find some even more local in some of the bars, pubs and restaurants around.
Shopping
Austria is known for shopping. Here you can find the famous Kartner Strasse and the Mariahilferstrasse. In these streets you can find lots of shops, restaurants, cafes and women often get stuck here for days. The area close to the Stephansdom (Graben) is known to be among the most expensive areas for shopping in Vienna.
Horse carriage
If you want to see Vienna in an old fashioned way, then watch Vienna from a horse carriage. Visit areas such as Hofburg and feel like an emperor as you are taken around.
There are many other activities worth checking out in Vienna, but we hope you have enjoyed this list. If you have further thoughts, write a comment!
Are you coming to Vienna between February 7th and 23rd? Would you like to see the Winter Olympics while in Vienna somewhere on the Internet? There are several ways of doing so.
First of all, the Channel ORF and ATV have the rights to broadcast from the Winter Olympics in Austria. The easiest way to watch is therefore simply to turn on the TV in your hotel room and watch one of the channels. We can of course not tell you exactly what events will be broadcasted by the different channels, but you will for sure be able to watch your favorite events watching one of the mentioned channels.
Nowadays several channels also broadcast online, and both ATV and ORF have quite a lot of online content available for viewers all across the world. So, if you really want to watch the Winter Olympics online while in Vienna, I guess one of the best options is to visit ORF.at or ATV.at to do so there. If you should bump into problems, meaning that you get error messages telling you that the stream is not available in your region, visit the following site for instructions on how to bypass those.
Hope these instructions will help you and enjoy watching the Winter Olympics while in Vienna!
Do you live in Austria and want to make a subscription to Netflix? Or do you have a Netflix subscription in the UK or maybe in the United States and would like to watch it while in Austria, but you are unable because Netflix tells you that their services are unavailable at your location?
This is a very typical question we receive from our readers and from travelers coming to Austria. Luckily there are tons of websites out there explaining how to watch Netflix from abroad, so instead of inventing the wheel over again, we would rather recommend that you go ahead and visit one of the following article:
To sum up the contents of the two sites, the goal is to get an IP address in the nation where you want to watch Netflix. Since you are searching on this content in English, you probably want to sign up for a Netflix account in either the UK, in Ireland, in USA or in Canada. To do so you need an IP in one of those nations. If you already have a Netflix account, it is important that you get an IP address in the same nation as in which you have your already running Netflix account.
To watch Netflix in Austria
To watch Netflix in Austria we recommend that you sign up for a Netflix account in the UK. That is easy and works great and all you need is a UK IP address. We recommend that you use a VPN provider to get such an IP address and one of the best VPN providers on the market is HideMyAss. They run their services from the UK, meaning that the company behind the product do their uttermost to give all users the best service possible in the nation in which they are actually located, in the UK. Their services can therefore warmly be recommended if you are looking for a UK IP address.
So, to get started watching Netflix in Austria all you need to do is to visit the HideMyAss website, sign up, download their VPN client and visit the Netflix website again after restarting your browser. You can now sign up for a free 30 day trial and enjoy the full register of programs and shows available in the Netflix system.
This is a letter form some of our readers where they share their thoughts on their stay in The Levante Laudon. If you have any inputs, feel free to write a comment!
A guest review of The Levante Laudon
We stayed in The Levante Laudon earlier this year, in October. We came as a family, two adults and two children. What we really liked with this apartmant hotel was the brilliant location, quite near famous locations such as Rathausplatz and the famous Cafe Landtmann. Upon arrival everything went perfect, we got the key to our room and headed of to check it out. The elevator was quite small, so we had to carry our baby wagon up the stairs, but that was not really a big problem since we lived in the first floor.
Our apartmant was very cheap compared to other apartments in Vienna, but I guess that was because it was nights from Tuesday to Wednesday and from Wednesday to Thursday, which in general are much cheaper than weekends. The living room was not a giant, but worked perfectly for the purpose and the sleeping room as well. The kitchen was well equipped, so for such a short stay we had everyting we needed in the kitchen. The bathroom was also nice, so it must be said that we were very satisfied with both the look of the interior and everything. It could of course be bigger, but considering the fact that it is Vienna we are speaking about at such a central location, a price of 80-90 Euro per night is nothing for such an apartmant.
Picture from the reception area of Levante Laudon
Some other nice stuff in The Levante Laudon was the fact that we could order a fruit basket which waited for us in the room upon arrival. They had free WiFi which was easy to use. I know beforehand that open wireless networks are not always the safest to use, because there might be people sniffing for your personal data out there, and if you use an open wireless network without any encryption, that can easily be done, so I used a VPN provider named HideMyAss instead and connected to their server in Austria. In that way I encrypted my data and could surf safely, even in a public open network like the one in The Levante Laudon. But, brilliant the fact that they had WiFi available in the hotel, and it worked well… easy to connect and quick connection, so do not forget to bring your laptop or mobile device as you stay here.
All in all we left the apartmanthotel very satisfied. The price was good, the interior looked like and we can warmly recommend this place to others coming to Vienna in need of an apartmant. To use the free WiFi, the extra room where our children could sleep and the central location was what made us decide for this place in the first time, and if we return to Vienna some other time we might make the same decision again.
Johnson family
Thank you for sending this review to us. If you want to check the place yourself, make a booking at booking.com. Feel free to share your own experience as well writing a comment to this post!
The capital city of Austria is Vienna which is known as one of the most romantic places in Europe. Vienna gives home to several attractions, programs and events, to nice restaurants and countless museums, pubs and parks as well. So in this article we will give some advice which are the most romantic places and where to go on a visit in Vienna.
