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Explore Vienna through different lenses

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Vienna has so much to offer! Whether you are visiting this city for the first time or live here and want to experience your own city from a different perspective. On our Vienna Art Guide tours we take you on a short trip! For example, we follow the steps of important personalities, we explore the hidden corners or take a historic view on other times.

 

All tours can be booked privately . Do you have another topic in mind?

Contact me and we will find something suitable.

1 Die Klassiker

The classics and the hidden corners

It is not for nothing that Vienna gets elected as most livable city every year. With its architecture, magnificent buildings and monuments, Vienna offers a wonderful backdrop to learn more about centuries of history.

 

But not only that: On our walk together, I will show you the dreamy side streets and hidden courtyards that allow us to immerse ourselves in another time. Anecdotes and amusing details round off the facts and simply bring you closer to the real Vienna with its many sides.

Exploring Vienna downtown

Maria Theresa monument at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1010 Vienna

End point- Stephansplatz, 1010 Vienna

about 2 hours

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2 Beethovens Spuren

Following in Beethoven's footsteps

Rebel, social revolutionary and rock star of his time

Born in Bonn, Ludwig van Beethoven came to Vienna for the first time at the age of 16 to stay a few years later and contribute to Vienna's fame as a city of music forever with his pioneering work.

The image of the virtuoso genius as well as the withdrawn loner sticks to him to this day. But who was the person behind the groundbreaking musical work and neglected appearance?

Accompany me on a tour through the inner city of Vienna, where we walk past Beethoven's places of residence and work and discover the revolutionary, social rebel and pop star of his time.

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at the Beethoven Monument, Beethovenplatz 1

Mölkerbastei, 1010 Vienna

about 2 hours

Powerful women - the Salons of Vienna

Social platform of the fin de siècles

In the analog world of the 19th century, the Vienna Salon was the social “platform” of the time. It was there, that the world of art and literature, as well as science and the financial aristocracy “networked”.

 

The main driving force behind these meeting places were women from upper society. From the author and journalist Berta Zuckerkandl comes the quote: "In my salon is Austria". Fanny von Arnstein, Pauline Metternich, Caroline Pichler or Alma Mahler-Werfel: in their role as salonies, these ladies cleverly and charmingly determined the intellectual and cultural life of Vienna. Invitations to their splendid salons were extremely popular.

 

Accompany me in the footsteps of these extraordinary women! Find out more about them and their guests, who went in and out of them and in which private places history was made.

3 Starke Frauen

in front of Café Landtmann, 1010 Vienna

State Opera, 1010 Vienna

about 2 hours

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4 Wiener Sagen

About basilisks and pacts with the devil

Viennese myths and legends

The hidden and mysterious things are often the most exciting ones. In old Vienna legends were told of fabulous beings, fearless men and mysterious signs.

 

The places where so many puzzling things are said to have happened still exist today, and the myths have survived as legends over the centuries. On our walk together we look for hidden places, discover mysterious signs and hear wondrous stories. Together we evaluate the one or the other grain of truth that is hidden in them.

 

This walk is particularly suitable for families as legends fascinate young and old!

in front of the ice cream parlor at Schwedenplatz

Stephansplatz, 1010 Vienna

about 2 hours

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Sigmund Freud tour

It all began in our beautiful city, because this is where Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis and, as a pioneer, sets new standards.

Around 1900 there was a spirit of optimism in art and culture in Vienna, as well as in science. The theories and methods he developed are discussed and applied without interruption to this day, but they are also criticized.

Let's get in the mood on a walk along his workplaces. Let's get to know the life of this great thought leader and his environment. What shaped his environment? Where was he and who were his patients? - before we enter his former apartment and practice at Berggasse 19, where he lived with his family for 47 years.

Be in Vienna on the couch

5 Kunst in Wien

in front of Café Landtmann, 1010 Vienna

Berggase 19, 1090 Vienna (Sigmund Freud Museum)

about 2 hours

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6 Otto Wagner

Otto Wagner's architecture

Genie and master mind of Jugendstil

Around 1900 Vienna was the third largest city in Europe and Otto Wagner was the leading mastermind of urban development at the time. His credo: "Something impractical cannot be beautiful".

 

Undisputedly one of the most important representatives of Viennese Art Nouveau, a visionary with foresight he had a lasting impact on the cityscape of Vienna. As an innovative architect, designer and urban planner, Otto Wagner was an important pioneer of Viennese modernism.

 

Accompany me on a walk past the monumental buildings of the Vienna Stadtbahn, but also lesser-known city palaces. Find out more about Otto Wagner and his work: from glass bathtubs, washable facades or about rivers in which city traffic still flows today.

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Otto Wagner Pavilion, Karlsplatz, 1040 Vienna

Stephansplatz, 1010 Vienna

You need a valid ticket for Wiener Linien

about 2 hours

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