Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der Bildende Künste Wien)

Become a local for a day! The tour will take you through the historical center of Vienna. Let our experienced guides bring history back to life whilst exploring the main attractions, monuments, and hidden gems of the old town. The tour offers an insight into the history, architecture, culinary and daily Viennese life. Your walk will begin at our meeting point at the Albertinaplatz, close by the Opera. From there, your guide will take you to through the hidden alleyways in the eldest part of the city, where Mozart and Beethoven used to live. Touch history in its original locations! Continue the walk to the St. Stephen's Cathedral, and from there travel back to the imperial times crossing the courtyards of the Hofburg Imperial Palace. There, hear about life, gossip and anecdotes about the Habsburg imperial family, as well as about Austria’s darkest times in the 20th century. The tour will finish close by the Vienna State Opera. This is a small group tour with max.6 persons on tour.

Take a memorable, private Vienna full-day tour with the perfect guide from your hotel in Budapest. After a 3-hour journey from Budapest, arrive in the city center of Vienna. Admire the most important sights of Vienna such a the famous Ringstrasse, the City Park, the Parliament, the Burgtheater, the State Opera House, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Natural History Museum, and City Hall. During the guided walking portion of your tour, learn about the most famous sights such as Kärtner Strasse – the main shopping street, the Stephansdom, the Museum quarter, and the Hofburg. During this walking city tour enjoy your lunch in a lovely restaurant in the center.  After lunch (inclusive) there is free time for either shopping in the Mariahilfer Strasse, a visit to the Schönbrunn Palace, or exploring the Prater. The tour ends at your hotel in Budapest.

The Vienna Museum of Art History's collection is the best place to see and to understand what distinguishes a brilliant artist from the wonderful and the good from the mediocre. If you want not only to walk through the museum and enjoy the works of Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Raphael and Caravaggio, but also aspire to understand what distinguishes their works from those of their less famous contemporaries, this tour is for you. In Peter Bruegel's largest world collection, we'll take a closer look at The Hunters in the Snow to understand why it was in the 20th century that this painting became the “cold distant peak of unattainable art“, and why it was a huge risk to choose such a controversial subject in the 16th century. We will look at the requirements for Rubens' work and see the difference between works made for his powerful commissioners and those created for his own pleasure. The Capture of Samson by his disciple Antonis van Dyck will make it clear to us which qualities of his work have allowed him to occupy a separate place in the history of art, at least equal to his teachers.  Vermeer's work The Allegory of The Art and Caravaggio's Madonna with the Beads will show us the most virtuoso showcase of mimesis, the main principle of Western aesthetics. And Parmigianino's works in the contrary will show us the first attempts of art to escape from the path of perfect vitality. If you wish to see outstanding art and aspire to understand what makes it great, this art tour is perfect for you.

Young Adolf Hitler struggled to make his mark as an artist in Vienna, the pearl of the Habsburg Empire. On this walking tour, you’ll follow in his footsteps and visit key locations that played a crucial role in his formative years. This self-guided tour starts outside Wien Westbahnhof train station and ends in front of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which rejected the aspirant artist’s application three times. You’ll weave through part of the bustling Jewish Quarter where, ironically, Hitler found some of his best clients for his mediocre hand-painted postcards. Along the way, you’ll find out how Vienna’s anti-Semitic environment and Hitler’s experiences of poverty and rejection shaped his worldview, providing valuable insights into one of history’s darkest chapters. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a unique perspective on these complex political, socioeconomic and racial factors, and a deeper understanding of the events that led to World War II.

We'll begin our tour with the collection's most prized possession — The Last Judgment by Hieronymus Bosch. The modern viewer is amazed by the inferno in his famous triptych, rather than frightened. It mixes chimeras in the form of half snakes and half eggs, fear of wars and epidemics. And a great deal of the artist's personal frustrations. I invite you to look closely at the details of the painting.  Cranach's The Holy Family, as well as the obe by Jos van Klewe, will reveal the origins of the family portrait genre to us, while the religious paintings of the Quattrocento and Cinquecento art will disclose the rules of making art for religious meditation. And Rubens' The Abduction of Orifia will serve us as an example of what art for sensual pleasure should look like. The most valuable skill for an artist has long been the ability to reveal a complex subject by means of painting. This is why the gallery offers many outstanding examples of "stories" – paintings on biblical or antique subjects, such as Heinrich Füger's Death of Germanicus and Angelo Caroselli's The Suicide of Cato. Together we will try to understand the ideas behind these canvases and to feel how convincing they are for us today.

Are you looking for things to do in the Vienna historic center? Try our scavenger hunt through the historic center, the Innere Stadt, while discovering its churches and palaces! It will take you from Stephensdom to the Vienna State Opera, and from Michaelerplatz to the Maria Rotunda. We offer challenges at every step. Each challenge will tell you where you are going next and a bit of local history and advice.

This half-day walking-tour presents two of Vienna’s most outstanding periods, Baroque and Art Nouveau. We skip-the-line to explore the Upper Belvederes refined interior. The Austria Gallery’s highlight is the Kiss by Gustav Klimt – presented among ten other Klimts and works of his contemporaries like Schiele and Kokoschka. Baroque gardens always hide little surprises – lets decipher them. The open spaces of Schwarzenbergplatz and Karlsplatz offer unique vistas spanning periods from the seventeen-hundreds to WWII. An art nouveau signature building itself the Secession holds another Kiss at the end of Klimt’s “illustration” of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. At the end, Naschmarkt invites you to explore Vienna’s culinary diversity or just relax with an al fresco lunch or afternoon snack.

A perfect beginning for your stay in Vienna. You will get to all the main sights in Vienna and your most entertaining local certified tour guide will tell you everything about Viennas past and todays life. Learn about the Habsburgs and their extensive imperial residences, see our world famous attractions, like Heldenplatz, Belvedere palace, Prater & more and finally enjoy a glass of typical Viennese vine. Did you know that Vienna is the only metropolis in the world to cultivate an appreciable wine-growing industry within its city limits. PROST

Vienna, the Capital of Austria is situated only 240 kilometres from Budapest, at a 2,5 – 3 hours drive on the motorway. On this tour we drive along the famous Ringstrasse (Vienna’s main boulevard) to give you a first impression of the most important sights of Vienna and show you the City Park, the State Opera House, the Museums of Fine Arts and Natural History, the Parliament, the Burgtheatre, the City Hall and the Votive Church. Then we take a short walk to the most beautiful parts of the city centre: Museumquarter, Hofburg (winter residence of the Habsburgs), Kärtner Strasse (shopping street), the Stephan’s Cathedral, etc. After we provide you time for shopping in the elegant pedestrian area or there is an opportunity to visit Schönbrunn Palace or any other museums, or you can explore Prater, the well-known amusement park.On the way home we stop at Hundertwasser House (journey into the land of creative architecture).

If it ain't baroque, don't fix it! Art puns aside, if you've come to Vienna and have been itching to go to a museum, but don't know where to start or where to go, you've come to the right place! At Austria Tours & Travel we pride ourselves on being history buffs and museum matchmakers- we can find a museum for every type of traveler! Our private museum tour includes 2-3 museums of your choice in Vienna (a list/recommendations will be provided to you upon booking), an air-conditioned van (in summer) to transport you to and from each museum in comfort, and a private guide who will take care of all logistics and provide you with a guided tour at each museum.

From its imperial grandeur, a legacy of the powerful Habsburg monarchy, to the musical heritage that includes composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Josef Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johann Strauss (father and son), Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler, among countless others, Vienna offers a lot to every traveller. Discover Vienna’s highlights during our comprehensive walking tour and listen to the stories of one of the greatest dynasties in the world – the Habsburgs. You will learn about: Beginnings as Vindobona Romans and the Middle Ages House of Babenberg The rise of the Habsburgs Holy Roman Empire Austro-hungarian empire The ottomans and the Siege of Vienna 19th century, Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna 19th and 20th century boom of the Fine-Arts The circumstances that lead to World War I The end of the Empire and The First Republic Austrofascism, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Second World War Allied occupation and the building of the Second Republic

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