The elegant capital of Austria, mesmerizes with its imperial grandeur, world-class museums, and a vibrant blend of classical music heritage and contemporary culture, all set against the picturesque backdrop of the Danube River.

Places to visit:

Located in Vienna’s vibrant first district, Stephansplatz is a quintessential spot where the iconic Stephansdom cathedral meets a dynamic mix of historical and contemporary architecture.

In the surrounding area, you can find many shops where to buy typical products and souvenirs, as well as fancy restaurants and panoramic bars like SKY @STEFFL.

The Schönbrunn zoo is the oldest zoo in the world, built in 1752 under the order of the Emperor Franz I.
Its area covers over 17 hectares (170.000 m²), right in the middle of the 160 hectare Schönbrunner Schlosspark (Palace Gardens).
Together with the Palace of Schönbrunn and its gardens, the zoo belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Schönbrunn.

Built from 1962-1964, the Danub Tower (Donauturm in German) is the tallest building in Austria, situated in the twentysecond district, being the best point from where to look at the city of Vienna all around.
With its 252 meters of height, it includes a bar, an observation terrace and a restaurant, situated at 170 meters, which is the highest point reachable for the visitors.

Prater is the most famous amusement park in Vienna, with 250 attractions spread all over the park, including the iconic Ferris Wheel, dated 1897, giving an all-round panorama over the city.
There are attractions for all ages and for all places (up in the air, on the ground, and a mix of them).

Visitors don't have to buy any ticket for entering the park, because just the attractions which want to be used must be paid.
In the park, can be found many places where to eat typical food, like the Wiener Schnitzel, sweets like Baumküchen, and many more.

In the gigantic complex of Schönbrunn, you can find a beautiful place for the whole family: the Palmenhaus.
With its 113 meters long, and a maximum height of 28 meters, it hosts around 4500 species of plants.
There are different ticket options to visit the Palmenhaus (single or combined with other places in the Schönbrunn complex).

Setagayapark was designed 1992 by landscape gardener Ken Nakajima from Japan.
Twincity and cultural agreements have existed for many years between Vienna's Döbling district and Setagaya, a suburb of Tokyo.
The park was laid out near a retirement home.
Setagayapark emulates a Japanese landscape with several ponds and streams, and it contains the densely-planted garden elements that are typical of Japanese gardens.
There is a Japanese tea house, a "Yukimi style" stone lantern, several stone sculptures and a fountain, as well as a poem set in stone at the entrance to the garden.
The interesting plantings with Japanese maple, ornamental cherry trees and moor bedding plants such as azaleas are particularly noteworthy.
The rich variety of plants creates an everchanging display of blossom and transformations from season to season.
The purpose of this design is that "people should observe this work of art in tranquillity and try to find their own inner peace".

The best period to visit the park is in the middle of March to the beginning of April, since it's when the majority of flowers are blooming.

The Türkenschanzpark is very scenic and a popular destination because of its many ponds and streams, waterfalls and fountains.

Because of its proximity to the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, there are many special and rare plants in the Türkenschanzpark, for example ornamental trees from China, Japan and North America.
You can also admire rare plants in the Türkenschanzpark, such as the mountain pasqueflower.
These are alpine flowers that are mainly used in homeopathy and bloom from April to May.

Illumina Lights Garden is probably one of the best places to visit during the cold winter near Vienna.
Situated in Laxenburg, these gardens are populated with lights and figures, which are work of arts from different national and international artists.
The various attractions are distributed all over the park, and visitors can follow a pathway to visit them all.
Almost each attraction has some music in the background, to let the visitor experience the game of lights prepared from the artist.

In the pathways, can be found different places where to eat typical foods, as well as hot drinks and public toilets.
Needless to say that the best moment to visit the park during its opening period is in the night, to fully appreciate the magic of lights.
More information can be found on the official website.

Don't know what to do on a cold day or night during the winter in Vienna?
The Wiener Eistraum is the place for you and your friends/family.
With its 8.500 m² of ice situated in front of Rathausplatz, it offers people of every age the so called "Ice dream", where you can skate on ice and spend time with your family and friends, while enjoying hot typical foods.

Being a season location, the Eistraum is opened during the winter, usually from mid January to the beggining of March.
More information can be found on the official website.

Vienna has a wide variety of places where to eat, ranging from typical local food to multi-cultural places.
Even if the Schnitzel is the most famous dish in the city, there are plenty of places where you can eat different things, depending on the budget that you have and the things you want to eat.
Here's a list of places we reccomend you to visit if you're in Vienna:

• Ebi: asian restaurants chain in Vienna with "All you can eat" concept.
  Prices are really good, as well as the quality of the food, and the service in some sites is really fast.
  Rate: 8/10
  Website: https://www.ebi-vienna.at/home

• Hotline 5: meat restaurant with high quality products and tasty burgers.
  You can order extra ingredients and special "shows" about your order is served, sometimes with flames!
  In this place, you can pay by cash only!
  Rate: 7/10
  Website: https://hotline-5.at/ 

• Napoli 1926: do you want to taste the real italian dishes without going out of Vienna?
  Then this restaurant is what you're looking for.
  The combination of the italians chefs, with the freshness of the products (imported from Italy), makes every dish really tasty and definitely worth a try.
  Even in this restaurant, you can pay just by cash.
  Rate: 9/10
  Website: https://napoli1926.at/

• Cinnamood: cinnamon roll shop spread all over Austria and Germany, with quality products and friendly staff.
  Here you can find many different flavours of cinnamon rolls, made every day, at a reasonable price.
  Rate: 10/10
  Website: https://cinnamood.de/en/start-3/

• Café Central: do you want to taste the viennese sweetness?
  Then you must try the delicacies of this historical café.
  Prices are not cheap, but aligned with the quality of the products, the service and the accomodation.
  We suggest you to make an online reservation if you don't want to wait to be seated.
  Rate: 9/10