Led by an expert local historian, you’ll gain a rich overview of the Innere Stadt’s major sites and enjoy immersion into Viennese culture – from waltzes and pastries to world-class museums and classical music. Along the way, you’ll gain a solid feel for Vienna’s past and present – from its centuries as the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s ruling city through the dark chapters of Anschluss and WWII – concluding with the social and political makeup of Vienna today.

With your historian guide to lead the way, explore Schönbrunn Palace on this guided walking tour, and learn of the influential role culture and the Arts played in the imperial family’s life. Stroll through the grand dining room to the Hall of Ceremonies, the Porcelain Room, and the Millions Room, and admire ostentatious displays of the Habsburg rulers’ immense power, influence, and wealth. We’ll also take a turn through the lavish formal gardens and park, opened under Maria Theresa’s direction as the Habsburg dynasty’s political and cultural dominance reached its peak.

Your guide, an expert in the history of art and architecture, leads you on a journey of discovery through the formal gardens and lavish summer palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy – one of the most successful military commanders of all time. The palace and grounds are at once a masterstroke of Baroque landscaping and design, and a testimony to Eugene’s patronage of the arts, which continued beyond his death when the Belvedere became one of the first public museums in the world, now home to a world-class art collection, featuring masterpieces from Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh.

This 3-hour Vienna Art Nouveau tour showcases Otto Wagner’s stunningly designed metro stations and other buildings that reflect the Art Nouveau movement sweeping turn-of-century Europe and flowering in the hands of Wagner and fellow artistic legends, Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser. Your expert guide helps you understand the philosophy behind Secession and Art Nouveau, pondering the symbols and materials favored by its practitioners: floral forms in linear metalwork, a fascination with curvy typography that exposes its origins in commercial art, posters and graphic design, its oriental influences and Fin de siècle eroticism. Riding the metro and visiting Vienna’s famous Secession House, you also discover the style’s links to the urban expansion and the rising cosmopolitanism of Viennese society in 1900.

The scene is Vienna: Christmas 1857. The talk of the town and media is the announcement by the Austrian Emperor that he is going to tear down the outdated, medieval city walls to make way for a modern boulevard around the old city center. The ring­-shaped boulevard will symbolize the wealth and power of Vienna and its readiness for modern times, enabling the city to compete with the urban reconstructions that made 19th-century Paris and Berlin famous for grand avenues and sweeping vistas. This Ringstrasse Project tour takes you along this outstanding boulevard and gives you an in­-depth introduction to the political and philosophical motivations behind the massive renovation, the great architects who participated, the civic institutions and private residential palaces they built, and the new social elites and cafe society that the Ringstrasse enabled to rise in Vienna’s modern era.

From the Middle Ages until 1938, the Jewish community in Vienna was one of the largest in Europe – reaching 185,000 individuals at its peak. Our 3-hour Jewish Vienna walking tour explores the tumultuous experiences of Vienna’s Jewish citizens, through settlement, expulsion, genocide, and revival. Your expert historian guide will shed light on the influential contributions of Jewish intellectual and cultural icons such as psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and Vienna Opera director Gustav Mahler, and the fragile revitalization of Vienna’s Jewish community taking place today.

This 3-hour Vienna classical music tour takes you to the major sites where luminaries including Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn lived, worked, and performed. Learn the secrets of top city attractions including St. Stephan’s Cathedral and Hofburg Palace, explore the connections between the Habsburg dynasty and the elevated status of classical music, and hear highlights of Vienna’s musical masterpieces on speakers or headphones along the way. With expert commentary from your historian guide, step into the world of classical music, and examine the powerful impact of the Habsburg family’s patronage on Vienna’s status as the world capital of classical music.

The statues and facades of Vienna’s Old City are filled with noblemen and peasants as well as mythical creatures and demons who were vanquished by knights and saints. This 3-hour Vienna for Children tour explores the images of legendary animals and heroes in the art of Stephansdom and other iconic Innere Stadt sites, offering stories that bring bygone eras to life. Your historian guide is a specialist in making tours captivating for kids but still gripping and interesting for their adults. The perfect option if you’ll be visiting the Imperial City with children.

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