Tips & Tricks
Mountain Hiking Expeditions (Austrian Alps) – “Trekking Austria” provides hiking tours of the Austrian Alps – just 1 ½ hours outside of Vienna. An experienced multilingual hiking guide is on hand to show participants the accessible and beautiful mountain range of Upper Styria and Lower Austria. Some of these tours are done with snowshoes. For […]
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 […]
Prater (Prater 9, Vienna) — this is a large public park, located within Vienna’s 2nd district. The Vienna Prater is entertaining and exciting, but it can also be relaxing and quiet. One part of it contains attractions ranging from a nostalgic merry-go-round to an ultra-modern roller coaster. In the other area, known as the “Green […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]