Itinerary - Celebrate Life. Experience Vienna.

Discover new museums, dive into Vienna's distinct districts, and celebrate pleasure. Experience the many facets of Vienna within 3 days!

Vienna celebrates its big comeback in 2022: the metropolis shows its best side and again celebrates life, art, enjoyment, and of course, the extraordinary city life in all of its facets.

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Day 1 morning:

Option A: Walking Tour “1000 reasons to love Vienna” with Artissimi

This walking tour through the city takes you to former purveyors to the court. These shops, where the splendor of the Austrian monarchy has survived to this day, are still very much alive. A good example of this is the shop of the former purveyor to the court, Wilhelm Jungmann & Neffe, whose beautiful textiles await the royal family today, just as they did centuries ago. Or the world-famous jeweler A. E. Köchert, which is run and managed by the sixth generation of the Köchert family. One of our most exclusive tours: And because it is about artissimi, we are of course also invited to take a look behind the scenes.

Option B: Through Vienna in a horse-drawn carriage

They are just as much a part of Vienna as St. Stephen’s Cathedral and the Giant Ferris Wheel: the fiakers. For many tourists, a ride with the two-horse carriage is one of the highlights. There is almost no cozier way to explore Vienna’s attractions.

Lunch

For lunch we recommend Plachutta Gasthaus zur Oper or as a vegan option The Lala.

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Crystal luster at Lobmeyr’s — Lobmeyr crystal luster (40176) – © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud

Familie im Fiaker in der Altstadt — Family in a horse-drawn carriage (41077) – © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud

Wiener schnitzel — Wiener Schnitzel (50609) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Lobmeyr crystal luster (40176) – © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud

Family in a horse-drawn carriage (41077) – © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud

Wiener Schnitzel (50609) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Day 1 afternoon:

Option A: Visit the MAK - Museum for Applied Arts

Design is one of the main features of MAK. The museum shows furniture, glass, china, silver, and textiles from the Middle Ages to the present day. Precious crafts from the Wiener Werkstätte, bentwood furniture by Thonet and art nouveau highlights such as the gilded design of Gustav Klimt for the frieze of the Stoclet Palais in Brussels.

Visit the special exhibition: JOSEF HOFFMANN: Progress Through Beauty

With the to date most comprehensive retrospective of his entire oeuvre, the MAK is honoring the impressive work of architect, designer, teacher, and exhibition organizer Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), one of the central figures of Viennese Modernism and the international Lebensreform (life reform) movement around 1900. To him, bringing beauty into his customers’ lives through design was equivalent to aesthetic and social progress.

Option B: Visit Schönbrunn Zoo

The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna is the oldest existing zoo in the world, the only remaining "Baroque menagerie". Today, the Zoo at Schönbrunn is considered one of the best and most modern zoos in the world, where there are even regular arrivals of rare panda babies.

Evening tour at Schönbrunn Palace

Schönbrunn Palace was built about 300 years ago. The emperors lived here in the summer. Empress Elisabeth, the legendary "Sisi", spent the first years of her marriage here. And in the century before that, the 16 children of Empress Maria Theresia wandered the rooms and corridors of this extensive.

Dinner

Afterwards you can enjoy dinner in one of the nearby restaurants: Café-Restaurant Residenz, Joseph II Heuriger & Vinothek.

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Elephant at the Schönbrunn Zoo — Schönbrunn Zoo (50883) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Schönbrunn Zoo (50883) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Schönbrunn Palace (40940) – © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud

Day 2 morning:

Option A: Mozart Experience: Mozart for All the Senses

It is at precisely that place in Vienna where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spent the final years of his life and composed both The Magic Flute and his Requiem that the audio-visual and multimedia “Mozart Experience” will be opening in 2022. This presentation is set to offer the public 1,500 square metres’ worth of immersion in Mozart’s world. Visitors will experience Mozart’s music, life, and activities staged acoustically, spatially, and employing various media.

Combine your visit with a shopping tour at the Steffl Department Store.

Option B: Visit the Heidi Horten Collection

This new addition to the Vienna museumscape has been very eagerly awaited, and rightly so. Heidi Horten Collection, an all-new museum, taking shape in the heart of Vienna, will provide a fitting home for the Heidi Horten Collection, one of Europe’s leading private collections. For the past 30 years, patron of the arts Heidi Goëss-Horten, one of just a handful of female museum founders worldwide, has been bringing together an impressive cross-section of art history from early modernism to the present day.

Option C: Visit the Liechtenstein Garden Palace

The Liechtenstein Garden Palace opens its doors to visitors in March 2022 with a special exhibition and free admission. The art collection of the princely house of Liechtenstein includes one of the biggest Rubens collections, key works by van Dyck, Lucas Cranach, and Raffael, as well as works by Rembrandt, van Ruysdael, and Hamilton.

Lunch at Brunnenmarkt

A colourful, newly fashionable district is springing up around Brunnenmarkt, a little further from the city centre, in Ottakring (16th district). The market exudes South European flair. Numerous artists have set up shop in the surrounding area, making Brunnenmarkt and nearby Yppenmarkt one of the most electric neighbourhoods in the city today. Some of Vienna's most exciting restaurants have opened around Yppenplatz: Restaurant Mani, Restaurant Wetter or Restaurant Dolce Lago.

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People sitting in outdoor dining areas — Brunnenmarkt (50730) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Brunnenmarkt (50730) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Apple Strudel (51086) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Day 2 afternoon:

Stroll around Yppenplatz and Brunnenmarkt

The area around Yppenplatz square is one of Vienna’s most vibrant. Its lifeline is the Brunnenmarkt which with more than 170 market stalls between Thaliastrasse and Ottakringer Strasse is Vienna’s largest street market. You barely notice the transition to Yppenplatz with its marketplace of permanent pavilions.

Dinner

Have an early dinner in the historic city centre: Cafe Mozart, Meissl & Schadn or 1870 - Restaurant Terrace Lounge.

Enjoy a concert at the Musikverein or at the Vienna State Opera

The Musikverein is Vienna's most famous center for classical music. Going to a concert here is about getting to know Vienna as a city of music in a setting of the very finest quality. And musical greats such as the Vienna Philharmonic.

The Vienna State Opera is one of the leading establishments for opera in the world. Internationally renowned performers and directors enjoy presenting their art here.

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Vegetable stall at Brunnenmarkt — Market stall at Brunnenmarkt (50727) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Musikverein, exterior view — Musikverein (50357) – © WienTourismus/ Christian Stemper

Vienna State Opera at the Ringstrasse — Vienna State Opera (40520) – © WienTourismus/Christian Stemper

Market stall at Brunnenmarkt (50727) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Musikverein (50357) – © WienTourismus/ Christian Stemper

Vienna State Opera (40520) – © WienTourismus/Christian Stemper

Day 3 morning:

Option A: Visit the Lower Belvedere

While the Upper Belvedere was all about representation, the Lower Belvedere acted as the residential palace of Prince Eugene. The lavish splendor of the owner is reflected in the Groteskensaal (Hall of the Grotesque), the Marble Gallery and the Golden Room. Special exhibitions are held in the Lower Belvedere and the Orangery. Nowadays, medieval art can be marveled at in the sables where the prince's horses once stood.

Option B: Visit the Upper Belvedere - world's biggest Klimt collection

The heart of the Belvedere collection is formed by the 24 paintings of Gustav Klimt with his golden images "The Kiss" and "Judith". Klimt's "The Kiss" in particular is world-famous. The 180 x 180 cm painting was created in 1908/09 and shows Klimt and his friend Emilie Flöge as a couple in love. "The Kiss" is probably Austria's most famous work of art. Klimt's portraits of women also impress and be marveled at in the Upper Belvedere.

Insiders tip: Combine your visit with a Vienna Gold Workshop

Gold is more than a metal. Gold is history, art, religion—and gold is love. Gold’s enigmatic qualities and its unique value have always captured people’s imaginations. Starting with Gustav Klimt’s Kiss we peer over the artist’s shoulder and find out how the masterpieces from his Golden Period were created. This is followed by working with this iconic metal in the studio and embellishing a unique souvenir with delicate gold leaf.

Lunch

Enjoy the typical Austrian cuisine at Restaurant Stöckl im Park, Salmbräu or Heuer on Karlsplatz.

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Upper Belvedere (50703) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Lower Belvedere (29230) – © WienTourismus/Gregor Hofbauer

Day 3 afternoon:

Option A: Discover modern art at Albertina modern

Vienna has had a new museum for modern and contemporary art since 2020. And what a thing: the Albertina modern, as a branch of the world-famous Albertina, occupies around 2,500 m² in the completely renovated artists' house.

The Albertina modern is dedicated to Ai Weiwei's impressive oeuvre in a moving spring exhibition. (March 16 – September 04, 2022)

It is the most comprehensive retrospective on the world-renowned Chinese conceptual artist and activist to date.

Option B: Visit the Kunsthistorisches Museum

With its collection of important works and the world's largest Bruegel collection, the KHM is one of the most significant art collections in the world. The Kunstkammer (Chamber of Art and Wonders) located there is one of the most valuable in the world.

Vist the exhibition Artistic Rivalry (Cellini, Rubens, Goya) (20^th September – 8^th of January 2023)

In the autumn of 2022, the KHM will be hosting an important exhibition that looks at duels and duets throughout art history. The often intense rivalry between painters and sculptors has a long history, and some of the best-known works from the Renaissance and the Baroque were created in the context of an artistic competition.

Enjoy the evening at a Viennese Heurige

The real Viennese “heurige” or wine taverns. Numerous songs have been dedicated to them; they have served as a backdrop for many films. However, in the legendary comfortable atmosphere, they primarily offer the Viennese and their guests entertainment, fine Viennese wines and the fitting culinary accompaniment. A place in which to feel good, in which everyone is warmly welcome. The real Viennese heurige, in which only Viennese wines are served, are identified by a bunch of pine branches and by the word “Ausg’steckt” written on a board, which simultaneously shows when the tavern is open. Popular Viennese wine taverns are Mayer am Pfarrplatz, Sirbu and Feuerwehr Wagner.

Insiders tip: Take a ride with the Vienna Heurigen Express
On a journey of discovery through the idyllic Viennese wine-growing regions with the Vienna Heurigen Express. The journey leads through picturesque wine villages, past beautiful vineyards and old winegrowers' houses. At the end of the trip you will experience a real Viennese wine tavern.

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Albertina Modern, interior view — Albertina Modern (51134) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Autumnal vineyards — Heuriger Wieninger at Nussberg (40405) – © WienTourismus / Peter Rigaud

Albertina Modern (51134) – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer

Kunsthistorisches Museum – © WienTourismus, Paul Bauer

Heuriger Wieninger at Nussberg (40405) – © WienTourismus / Peter Rigaud

New hotels in Vienna:

A number of exciting new arrivals are still to come later this year, while others have just welcomed their first guests. From luxury hotels to accommodations with an individual lifestyle touch - the concepts are as compelling as they are innovative: Hotel Rosewood Vienna, Leo Grand Hotel, Hotel Almanac Vienna and Hotel Bassena Wien Donaustadt.

J. & L. Lobmeyr

Kärntner Straße 26
1010 Vienna

http://www.lobmeyr.at/

Opening times
- Mo - Fr, 10:00 - 19:00
- Sa, 10:00 - 18:00

Itinerary - Celebrate Life. Experience Vienna.

Day 1 morning:

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Day 3 morning:

Day 3 afternoon:

New hotels in Vienna:

J. & L. Lobmeyr

Fiaker Paul

Plachuttas Gasthaus zur Oper

The LaLa

MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

Schönbrunn Zoo Entrance via Hietzinger Tor/Hietzinger Hauptstraße

Schönbrunn Palace (Schloss Schönbrunn)

Café-Restaurant Residenz

Steffl Department Store

Heidi Horten Collection

Liechtenstein Garden Palace

Brunnenmarkt

Mani

Wetter

Café Mozart

Meissl & Schadn

1870 – Restaurant Terrace Lounge

Musikverein

Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper)

Lower Belvedere, Orangery

Upper Belvedere (Oberes Belvedere)

Salm Bräu

Heuer on Karlsplatz Garten. Restaurant. Bar.

Albertina modern

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

Departure station of the Vienna Heurigen Express Final stop of tram 26

Mayer on Pfarrplatz

Sirbu

Feuerwehr Wagner

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