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Vienna Highlights Small-Group City Walking Tour

Vienna Highlights Small-Group City Walking Tour

4.9 (1976) 🕑 2h 30m Free cancellation

Meet your guide and group in Central Vienna at your selected time. From there, take off through the city, exploring its most important sights. Travel with a group of just 15 people, which ensures personalized attention from your guide and the chance to ask plenty of questions.  After checking out the museums around Maria-Theresien-Platz, head for the Ring Road, which borders the historic city center. On the way, pass the neo-Gothic Town Hall and the impressive Austrian Parliament Building. Continue through the Volksgarten, check out Heroes Square, and pass the Hofburg Palace. Listen to your guide's commentary on the history, culture, and people of Vienna as you walk around the city. End with visits to St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Vienna State Opera, and the bustling Graben shopping street. Your tour ends at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna's most famous landmark; you are free to explore further on your own from there.

Languages: English
📍Maria-Theresien-Platz, Wien, Austria
🏢Operated by Dace Schaerf

Highlights

  • This tour is perfect for first-time or time-pressed Vienna visitors
  • See highlights such as St. Stephen's Cathedral, Hofburg Palace, and more
  • This small-group tour is capped at just 15 people
  • Choose from several convenient start times to fit your schedule

What you'll see & do

  • Maria-Theresien-Platz is a large public square between Ringstrasse and the Museumsquartier. Facing each other from the sides of the square are two twin buildings, the Natural History Museum and the Art History Museum. Square is decorated by the grand statue of empress Maria Theresa.
  • The most impressive monument on Ringstrasse with grand Empress Maria Theresia and many another figures including W.A.Mozart.
  • Royal art collection , this tour is beginning just next to this wonderful building.
  • The Ringstrasse is a circular grand boulevard that serves as a road around the historic central part of Vienna. Ringstrasse replaced the medieval city fortifications in the second half of 19th century. Today it is a beautiful complex of grand buildings including City Hall, Parliament, Burgtheater, Vienna State University, State Opera and many more. Historic Ring Road style is using elements of Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Ringstrasse is designated by UNESCO as a part of Vienna’s World Heritage Site.
  • Neoclassical main castle gate built after napoleonic wars.
  • The New Castle houses several museums like Austrian History Museum, World Museum, Imperial Armoury and National Library. Also Hofburg Congress Centre is located here. From balcony of the Neu Castle Adolf Hitler proclaimed the "Anschluss" of Austria into the Third Reich.
  • Heroes Square is a large open, green area attached to city after the old bastion adjacent to the palace was demolished during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Travelers will discover the Hofburg, the former imperial palace of the Habsburgs and the center of power in historic Vienna. The guide explains its centuries-long development, highlights important courtyards and façades, and shares stories about emperors, empresses, and court life, as well as the palace’s role in modern Austria.
  • Perfect place to explore the tragic personality and life of fascinating Habsburg empress
  • the Austrian National Library is one of the most important libraries in the world
  • Baroque Winter Riding School at Hofburg Palace is the famous location where the elegant white Lipizzan Stallions are performing and training regularly.
  • St. Michael’s Church dates back to year 1220. One of the most fascinating Vienna's churches with a very special atmosphere.
  • Office of Federal Chancellor of Austria
  • Volksgarten At the center of the park stands the Theseus Temple- small replica of Hephaisteion In Athens- was originally designed to present Antonio Canova’s sculpture. The Cortisches coffee house in Volksgarten was a popular place where even Austrian composer Johann Strauss used to play his waltzes.
  • Beautiful neo gothic City Hall is an excellent event location and the seat of Vienna’s government.
  • One of the best theaters in the world.
  • Stop at the University of Vienna to hear stories of groundbreaking minds such as Sigmund Freud and Lise Meitner - a brilliant Jewish physicist whose work changed modern science. We are connecting Vienna’s academic legacy to global scientific breakthroughs.
  • A former residence of Ludwig van Beethoven, located in an exposed position on the ramp of the former town fortifications.
  • This square is one of the oldest in Vienna's city center and impresses with its intimate and picturesque atmosphere.
  • Freyung passage is part of Palais Ferstel, also Cafe Central is located here. Some of the greatest writers and composers, architects and painters, psychoanalysts and revolutionaries have met here once- over coffee, cake and a cigar - in Vienna's most beautiful coffee house.
  • Most elegant pedestrian street in Vienna
  • Historic center of Vienna is main subject of this tour. We will discover main attractions of old historic part of Vienna.
  • Heart and soul of Vienna, most central square
  • Cathedral and symbol of Vienna
  • The only still existing apartment where Mozart lived in his best days in Vienna.

What's included

  • Local certified tour guide
  • Vienna's historic centre walking tour.
  • We use audio devices to ensure that everyone in group can hear the guide
  • Insider tips on Vienna culture, food and traditions
  • Carefully designed route through Vienna's historic center
  • Personal recomendations for restaurants and cafés

What's not included

  • Please keep in mind our tour does not visit the inside of any museum.

Good to know

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Service animals allowed

Public transportation options are available nearby

Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries

Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health

Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Please keep in mind our tour does not visit inside of any museums, but we do visit some churches and depending on weekday some other indoor locations, like palaces , university or cafe .

Not recommend for travelers with walking disorders.

Cancellation policy

  • A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
  • No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.
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