CULTURAL AUSTRIA

Arrival in Vienna and transfer to the hotel. In the evening we will enjoy a ride with the famous giant ferris wheel in the leisure park Prater and a welcome dinner in a typical wine tavern of Neusitft am Walde, Nußdorf or Grinzing.

Transfer back to the hotel and accommodation. 

Always associated with the imperial palaces and Sissi, Vienna is also the birthplace of the “Secession”, one of the most important artistic movements of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, which laid the foundations of Austrian modernism. Among its members are Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka the most famous. On our city tour we will visit the Belvedere Palace, now the National Art Gallery. Among its treasures we will see the masterpiece of Viennese modernism, the painting “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt. Then we will go to the Secession building, where we will admire another of the key works of Austrian art, “The Beethoven Frieze”, in which Klimt also put images to the Ninth Symphony of the composer Ludwig von Beethoven. On the way we will see other modernist works such as the Pavilion and Houses by Otto Wagner, as well as the most outstanding buildings of the city, such as the Opera House, the Hofburg or Winter Palace, the Museum of Fine Arts and its twin Museum of Natural History, the Parliament, the Town Hall or the Votive Church, among others. We will end the tour having a coffee break in a typical Viennese coffee house to enjoy a coffee accompanied by the famous Sacher cake.

Free afternoon. 

Free day to enjoy the city on our own. We suggest to continue the cultural route with a visit to the Leopold Museum – with works by Kokoschka and Schiele – or Albertina – with the stunning Batliner collection, which gathers master works from Monet to Picasso. 

Today we depart to Danube’s Valley, where we find 2 of the main cultural treasures of Austria, Göttweig Abbey and Melk Abbey. Both represent the best baroque architecture of the country, being included in the World Heritage list by UNESCO since year 2.000. We will visit both abbies, which offer us unique views over the Danube river and its wineyards valley from their privileged position.

Continue to Salzburg. Arrival and accommodation. 

Mozart, Maria von Trapp and Stefan Zweig. Three characters that summarize the culture of Salzburg, based on music and literature. We will start our visit of the city with a guided walk through the historic center to see Mozart’s birthplace and other tourist attractions such as the Horse Fountain in the Residence Square and the Salzburg Summer Festival’s Theaters, all of them scenes of the movie “The Sound of Music”, which reflects the life of Maria von Trapp. Then we will go to the Kapuzinerberg mountain to visit the residence of the writer Stefan Zweig between 1919 and 1934, prolific writer in whose work we find poetry, plays, essays, novels and outstanding biographies such as those of “Marie Antoinette” or “Mary Stuart” or the acclaimed “Stellar Moments of Humanity”.

Rest of the day at leisure. 

Departure in the morning to the German town of Prien am Chiemsee. Located on the shores of Lake Chiemsee, in the center stands the island of Herreninsel, where King Ludwig II of Bavaria had his third and lesser known palace built. It was intended to be a smaller scale copy of the Palace of Versailles, which remained half-built after the king’s untimely death. Only 7 rooms, along with the kitchen and the main staircase were completed. Visit of the palace and lunch at a lakeside restaurant with typical fish menu. Continuation of the journey to Innsbruck.

Arrival and accommodation.

We will start the day with a walking tour of the city center, whose streets are a cross between the Middle Ages and the 21st century. The Maria-Theresia Avenue, from the Triumphal Arch to St. Anne’s Column, leads us to the symbol of the city, the Golden Roof. We will visit the Imperial Palace and the Imperial Church, which will take us back to the beginnings of the Habsburg family. Free afternoon. In the evening, we will enjoy a Tyrolean dinner with the Gundolf Family accompanied by a show of dances and music to farewell our tour.

After breakfast, transfer to the airport of Innsbruck at the appointed time.

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