Tips & Tricks
Wine Tour of Weinviettel-Retz – Weinviettel is Austria’s largest wine-growing region, and is located just northeast of Vienna, and extending towards the country’s border with Czech Republic. The tour outfit “Weinviertel Tourismus GmbH” offers visitors tours of one of the towns involved in the country’s wine production (Retz), which includes tours through the Retz wine […]
Weinherbst Niederösterreich (Lower Austria) — the entire region of Lower Austria (just east of Vienna) swells to the rhythms of the grape harvest, as Europe’s largest wine tourism festival, fans its way through several wine regions including the Wachau, Krems, Carnuntum, Klosterneuburg and the Thermal region. This month-long wine festival, which takes place annually from […]
Mozart Haus (Singerstrasse 7, Vienna) — Experience the highlights of classical music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and many other world-famous composers in a unique atmosphere. The original Sala Terrena in the heart of Vienna is an impressive place to be enchanted by Viennese classic, performed by its virtuosic quartet in one of the oldest concert […]
Millennium Tower Run-Up (Millennium Tower, Handelskai 94-96, Vienna) — this tower running event in Vienna takes place in Austria’s tallest building, the 171-meter-high Millennium Tower. The starting point is in the “Millennium City” shopping and entertainment centre. The finish line is on the tower’s outdoor terrace on the 48th floor. Runners are let off the […]
WUK (W’hringer Strasse 59, Vienna) – this is a local cultural center that holds a variety of events in the following areas: WUK Theatre, WUK Culture for Kids, WUK Music and visual art. See its website for upcoming events: www.wuk.at
Vinatrium Cellars (Hauptstrasse 55, Deutschkreutz,) — Not a few wine enthusiasts would live to have this kind of a cellar under their house: high, vaulted ceilings of brick, tastefully renovated and lighted, and – thanks to the state-of-the-art climate control – made into the perfect storage space for veritable treasures. Located an hour south […]