This is where the waltz was born and its intoxicating melody will be the backdrop to
our morning tour of the city that retains the grandeur and nobility of its
great past.
Squares and streets, palaces and monuments, buildings and museums preserved
with respect, tie into a whole full of harmony. We will enjoy everything.
We will come to the palace and garden of Sembrun, former summer residence of
the imperial family. The work was completed in the 18th century, when Maria
Theresa hired N. Pakassi.
We will continue crossing the imposing Ringstrasse, the grand boulevard built
on the orders of Francis Joseph, to admire the Austrian Parliament, which has
an austere neoclassical style, the Gothic Town Hall, seat of the City of Vienna
and the local government. The University founded in 1365, the House of Music,
the Royal Theater and the majestic building of the Vienna State Opera, which
opened in 1869 to the sounds of Mozart's Don Giovanni.
We cross Maria Theresa Square, which separates the Art History Museum from the
Natural History Museum with the statue of Maria Theresa from 1884, which clings
tightly to the 1713 sanction that allowed a woman to take the throne, to pass
the Hofburg Winter Palaces and end up at St. Stephen's Cathedral, located in
the center of the city and featuring masterpieces of Gothic sculpture.
Return to the hotel.