Vienna Features

Vienna Features

• Mozart, Mozart, Mozart!
  

  The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) crammed a prodigious number of compositions into his Vienna years (the last 10 of his life), along... read more

• A Hop Through Hip Vienna
  

  Paris has the Latin Quarter, London has Notting Hill, and the bohemian district in Vienna is the Freihaus sector, Vienna's trendiest neighborhood... read more

• Top Reasons to Go to Vienna
  

  Ride the Ringstrasse. Hop on streetcar No. 1 or No. 2 and travel full circle along Vienna's best-known avenue. Those monumental buildings along... read more

• The "Neue" City
  

  One morning in 1911, Emperor Franz Josef, starting out on a morning drive from the Hofburg, opened his eyes in amazement as he beheld the defiantly... read more

• Munch on the Run
  

  If you don't have time for a leisurely lunch, or you'd rather save your money for a splurge at dinner, here's a sampling of the best places in... read more

• Wine-Wien-Wein-Vienna
  

  For a memorable experience, sit at the edge of a vineyard on the Kahlenberg with a tankard of young white wine and listen to the Schrammel quartet... read more

• Vienna's Sweetest Vice
  

  Many think that the chief contribution of the people who created the Viennese waltz and the operetta comes with the dessert course in the form... read more

• Tracking Down The Third Man
  

  Nothing has done more to create the myth of postwar Vienna than Carol Reed's classic 1949 film The Third Man. The bombed-out ruins of this proud... read more

• Jugendstil Jewels
  

  From 1897 to 1907, the Vienna Secession movement gave rise to one of the most spectacular manifestations of the pan-European style known as Art... read more

• The Sound—and Sights—of Music
  

  What closer association to Vienna is there than music? Saturated with musical history and boasting one of the world's greatest concert venues... read more

• Stepping Out in Three-Quarter Time
  

  Ever since the 19th-century Congress of Vienna—when pundits laughed "Elle danse, mais elle ne marche pas" (the city "dances, but it never... read more

• Vienna by Bike
  

  Look for the special pathways either in red brick or marked with a stylized cyclist image in yellow; there are also special traffic signals at... read more

• A Glittering Trove
  

  If you're looking for something truly special—an 18th-century oil portrait or a real fur, a rococo mirror or a fine silk fan, modern or... read more