Vienna on the go (2024)

13/01/2024

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🙋🏻 Greetings from Vienna! Here it is its unique neighborhood built according to philosophy of the Austrian artist, whose, in fact nickname is Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

It is worth coming here privately, yet I love bringing here also groups to get them acquainted with this phenomenon. There is also a coffeeshop there with lots of souvenir and art shops inside and around. Do come to visit it.

Individual guided tours are always possible. You are welcome to subscribe. Your local guide 💁🏻 Oleg

11/01/2024

🙋🏻 Hi there! The church of St. Karl Borromeo on a beautiful day is especially attractive. The largest baroque church outside of Italy. Just imagine, when built, was it built outside of old Vienna. With two monumental angels at the footstep of the church holding crosses of the two Testaments, the Moses cross with the serpent and the empty Resurrection cross. This church has a lot to tell. Just walk around it.

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03/08/2023

🏰 Hi! Many of you have been already to the gorgeous Benedictine Abbey Melk in Austria. Yet a thousand years ago this place was different. It was a castle, a residence site for the Babenbergs, the founders of Austria. The castle was built that time in the Romanesque style, of which not much is left, yet still you can see its old towers.

Well, that time, no monastery was there yet. It comes only after the Babenbergs residence moves further east, to Klosterneuburg. This is the moment, when the abbey has been founded in Melk. Among many significant things, famous is the Abbey Melk for still having the body of the first patron saint of then county Austria, St. Koloman, whose statue you see on the photo.

Be it with me and the guided tour or on your own, it is always worth visiting this blessed place of the Babenbers. Looking for a private guided tour in Vienna and its close vicinity? I will be glad to offer such ones. Your guide 💁🏻 Oleg.

02/08/2023

🏰 Have you ever been to castle Schallaburg? This is one of those beautiful and cosy places, that are not that far from Vienna. For the most part it is a Renaissance castle. There is also a considerable medieval lart. It is one of the most important Renaissance castles outside of Italy. Stil being reconstructed, yet it is very attractive even now. Certainly worth visiting it.

I would be glad to offer you individual or guided tours in Vienna and Austria. Just sent me your request in a messanger. Your guide 💁🏻 Oleg

31/07/2023

🚶🏃🤸 Hi everyone! The summer is busy with guests in Vienna and Austria. Still there is always time for the new ones. As a certified guide, I invite you to join me on the ways of encountering Vienna and its suburbs or even learning more in depth about Austria. Just write me on one of the messengers and we will arrange it for your time.

🤔 And here on photos below, guess where it is, at least in what country. Write your answer please in a comment below. Thank you and see you at my guided tours. Your guide 💁🏻 Oleg

30/01/2022

🏛️ Today, it is quite windy in Vienna and I decided to use this time for museums. Here I parked in front of the latest part of the Vienna imperial residence Hofburg.

🏛️ Exactly here are located already a few museums, like the House of History of Austria, Papirus Museum, Ephesus Museum, Collection of Medieval and Renaissance arms, Collection of musical instruments. On the sides one can find the Museum of Imperial Appartments, The World Museum, the National Library. And there are even more and larger ones just across the street. 🤦

🏛️ Not a bad place to park a car, isn't it? One can park here though only on weekends. Otherwise it is reserved for the OSCE and Parliament. 🤷 Should you need for my guided tours a ride, let me know and I will gladly help you out with it. See you in Vienna! Your local guide, Oleg

04/01/2022

📚 Staying even for a short while on the entrance ramp of the University of Vienna, one can see how beautifully it is located on the Ring Street, nearby the historical center of Vienna.

📚 This school of higher learning is one of the oldest in Europe having been founded back in 1365. The main building of the university here was built in 1884 by the Austrian architect Heinrich Ferstel in the Italian High Renaissance style. There are quite a few other important buildings built by him in Vienna. Once you are, for example, at the Cafe Central, you are again at the place built by him.

📚 Heinrich Ferstel not only constructed, he was by that time also professor and even rector of another Viennese school, of the Technical University of Vienna.

📚 And here you are on the threshold of 20 departments with 10.000 employees and 90.000 students of the main University of Vienna. Perhaps, you will want to study here or to invite your children once to start their academic life at this school?

🙋 You are more than welcome to come and see Vienna at my guided tours. Your local guide Oleg.

19/12/2021

💫 Evenings became longer - soon come Christmas and the New Year. It is always nice to stroll down the street in Vienna or at another city of Austria, to enjoy the atmosphere of the local life.

💫 Come to Austria, join my guided tours in Vienna and in other locations of Austria. 🤓 Contact me simply here. I wish you enjoyable preparations for the feasts that come!

11/12/2021

🎄 Winter has come to Wiener Neustadt. (Some 50 km south of Vienna) From town hall and southern part of the Main Square.

🎄 Wiener Neustadt started to be built back in 12th century immediately as a city and this for the English money received by Babenberger as a ransome for their king Richard the Lion Heart. And it is a former imperial residence town.

🎄 And yet today a fortaste of Christmas is in the air. Come to visit Wiener Neustadt 🤓 with your local guide Oleg.

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08/12/2021

🌺 Walking down the street in many cities and towns of the former Holy Roman Empire, as in Austria, you most certainly will see so called plague pillars. They were built in the period of Baroque in 17-18 centuries. Almost always, there, below the divine Trinity, you will see the figure of Our Lady often represented as the Immaculate Conception. Well, it is about Mary conceived without sin. It is not about conception of her Divine Child Jesus.

🌺 What is interesting is that the doctrine on the Immaculate Conception is taught centuries long in the Catholic Church, yet only in 1854 was it defined as a dogma, i.e. an unchangeable teaching of the Church.

🌺 This feast of the Immaculate Conception, which is also the name of Our Lady, is celebrated on 8 December. In Austria, that at least to some degree still remains to be Catholic, this day is a holiday free of work.

You are more than welcome to have a guided tour with me in Vienna and Austria. Your local guide Oleg

04/12/2021

🎨 Whether in the winter or in the summer, it looks always fun to see or even to sit on such a bank. Any idea what style of art it is? Share it with me please. A colorful splash in the gray winter evening gives a particular feeling of warmth. 🤓 Your Guide in Austria Oleg

03/12/2021

📚 How does a tourist guide know what is where and why it is so, as well as way more around it? Certainly, there is a training program preparing one for this job. Yet, can one really learn everything about a city, location or the country as a whole by simply attending a special study program? 🤷 Certainly not.

📚 The tourist guide keeps learning throughout his whole professional life. I love doing it not only for professional reasons, yet also because it brings joy satisfying some curiosity, discovering more, and explaining deeper.

📚 I, as tourist guide, learn not only from books and museums. I love strolling down the town or hiking in mountains. Walking down the street, I love, if possible and appropriate, enter the house yard or the house itself. There can one discover often unexpected things.

⚜️ What I love in Austria among many other things is the care and effort, with which the State and local communities preserve not only actual historical objects, yet also memory of those, that are unfortunately gone.

⚜️ Often entering a building in the city, one discovers a tablet reminding us what used to be or used to happen on this cite. Recently, going down the street in Wiener Neustadt, I accidently looked through the glass door of the modern building of the bank Sparkasse.

⚜️ How great was my surprise, when I read on the tablet behind that glass door, that in the hotel Goldener Hirsch (The Golden Deer), the most beautiful hotel of the town that time, stayed in 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte during Coalition wars against him.

⚜️ The building of this hotel was heavily damaged during the WWII and thus was replaced by the one we see now, the main office of the bank Sparkasse in Neustadt. Thanks go also to the Sparkasse, that one still can see that tablet.

It would be my pleasure to show you around the historical jewel of Wiener Neustadt. 🤓 Your guide Oleg

02/11/2021

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✨ In order to learn how the place where you are can be somewhat different, you just need to take a late night walk through it. Now, when it becomes dark earlier and the street illumination turns on, one can just stroll and enjoy the evening life of the city.

✨ I thought to share with you with a couple of pics from my last such a walk in the Vienna down town. Your guide Oleg

02/11/2021

Guided tours in Austria

🏞️ Greetings from the top of the eastern part of Alps known as Rosalia Hills. They connect two neighbouring federal lands of Lower Austria and Burgenland and are not particularly high. Yet they are so beautiful to take walks in woods of this region. Here is the top of the Rosalia Hills, Heuberg 748 m high.

🏞️ 100 years ago, after the fall of Austria-Hungary the formerly Hungarian part became the federal land Burgenland in Austria. For this occasion, there were such frames installed in some selected places for memory pictures. Following my hand, you see the castle of Forchtenstein, that for many centuries and till now belongs to the aristocratic family of Esterhazy. A beautiful view to the Pannonian stepp.

🏞️ At my guided tours you can visit such beautiful places, castles and palaces.

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01/11/2021

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😇 The feast of All Saints on 1 November is one of the most important feasts of the Catholic Church, yet has relation also to the Metropolitan Church in Vienna, the St. Stephen Cathedral.

😇 The first church of St. Stephen was built in Vienna back in 1147 under the patrozinium of this saint. Yet, interestingly enough, the actual cathedral has a double patrozinium. It falls on the All Saints feast.

😇 Back in 1358, Herzog Rudolf IV Habsburg the Benefactor founded a collegiate chapter in the All Saints Chapel in the Hofburg, the Vienna residence of Dukes, Archdukes, Kings and Emperors. Already in 1365, as happened to be the last year of his life, with the intention of lifting up the status of the main church of his city, Rudolf IV turned it into the cathedral chapter in St. Stephen's Church and gave its provost the title of Archchancellor of Austria.

😇 From that time on becomes the chapter's patrozinium of All Saints the second one for the Vienna Cathedral in addition to the feast of the Protomartyr Stephen. Have a blessed feast of All Saints!

Looking for a guided tour in Vienna and Austria? You are welcome to contact me. 😃

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04/10/2021

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⛪ Here is a small glimpse into the main yard of the monastery of the Holy Cross in the Vienna Woods. In Architecture, there are quite a few styles coexisting together and visible both inside and outside.

⛪ The Romanesque facade of the Abbey Church of the 12th century with the bell tower on the left side and the Trinity pillar in the Baroque style from the 18th in front of it. This is the first such a well coexisting gap that comes into your eye.

⛪ Under the trees, there is also an idyllic fountain of St. Joseph. Peace reigns here. Come and see. Your guide Oleg 🤓

03/10/2021

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⛪ Come and see with me the Cistercian monastery of the Holy Cross (Heiligenkreuz in German) located in the Vienna Woods south of Vienna. Come and I will open a little to you the door to the monastery. No worry, you do not have to stay there. 😃 If though you would like it, I will present you to one of the brothers.

⛪ This monastery was founded back in 1133 according to Tradition or in 1136 according to available documents by Duke Saint Leopold III from the dynasty of Babenbergs, who ruled in Austria prior to Habsburgs. The first monks came here from Burgundy in France to set up the monastery, that remains active till today.

⛪ The monastery is well known in many wonderful and important ways. One of them is the relique of the Holy Cross, upon which Christ was crucified. This is where its name comes from. Yet, no confusion. The patrotinium, the dedication name of the monastery is Assumption of Our Lady.

Come for a tour and learn more about the place and people there. Your guide Oleg 🤓

14/07/2021

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🌊 When I was not a tour guide yet, I was wondering where all such people spend their vacation.

🌊 Here I myself am with my wife on vacation in Croatia, this time on Makarska Riviera in a small place called Tucepi. And, believe it or not, this part of Croatia for some 100 years between Napoleonic times and the end of the First World War used to belong to the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire.

🐚 My wife and I enjoy it here very much. Beautiful landscape, wonderful and clear sea water, good 🐟 food, welcoming people. What more would one need on vacation? Oh, yeh, some local history and local traveling, what☝️we certainly do. To be 🤓 continued.

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04/07/2021

Guided Tours in Vienna and Austria

🎭 Do you like opera as I like it? Yet also nature, straight lines and modern architecture? If so, you absolutely have to be for an opera performance at St. Margarethen in Burgenland at the open air opera house. It is some one hour drive south of Vienna and you get to one of the oldest stone quarries of Austria. This place from 1500s until today belongs to the noble Hungarian family Esterhazy, that throughout centuries remained faithful to Habsburgs and Habsburg-Lothringen dynasties.

🎭 Sand-lime stone from here has been used still by the Romans 2000 years ago to build Carnuntum on the Danube river, the most important Roman settlement in today's Austria. The old gothic viennese churches of Stephansdom and Maria am Gestade were built from the stone mined here. Yet also the baroque church Karlskirche, multiple residences on the Ringstrasse in historicist style.

🎭 For this year 2021 falls a half-jubilee of 25 years since operas have been staged in this stone quarry starting in 1996. In 2021 we will see Turandot from Giacomo Puccini with the famous aria Nessun dorma! - Nobody may sleep! Indeed, how can one sleep at such a place muffled in music and voices. The stage there is grand, beautiful, and always extremely well thought through.

🎭 I hope, all those earlier words will give you enough food for images, that themselves will come later. Yet here is the entrance to the open air Opera in St. Margarethen. This zigzagging way combined with stairs, rusty modern stile of handrails... I just love it. And this continues inside after the ticket check-in to the great open space.

🎭 The photos from inside will come in a few weeks, as I plan to be there for the performance. This opportunity is open yearly, yet only from mid-July through mid-August. This is one of those musts once you are in Austria.

You are welcome to share this my post with friends. Your guide in Austria 🤓 Oleg

26/06/2021

Guided Tours in Vienna and Austria

📒 In the middle of the week, I was passing by the Schönbrunn Palace by car. It is still incredibly empty around there. Here is the story.

📒 The Schönbrunn Palace is now a part of the city, yet when it was being built, it was still outside of Vienna. The palace was initially requested as a hunter palace at the end of 1600s by Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE). It is the one, whom you see at the foot of the Trinity Pillar on the Graben in Vienna. It is at his request Vienna was rebuilt in the Baroque stile. The Baroque architect of the palace is Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, whose many buildings you can see in Vienna.

📒 Yet Maria Theresia, the grand daughter of Leopold I, daughter and wife of the Emperors of the HRE, decided to embellish the palace, making it her summer residence. Well, now you see it in the Rococo stile, still preserved until today. So it is left to us by the dynasty of Habsburgs.

📒 It is only at the end of 1800s, with Emperor Franz Joseph from the dynasty of Habsburg-Lothringen that it became possible to live in the palace throughout the whole year. Here was he born, here has he died.

📒 So is the story of the Palace Schönbrunn from the hunter palace, summer residence through allyear residence of emperors. It is after this colour of the palace the 'Schönbrunn yellow'. Nowadays, it is a the most visited place in Vienna. Come and see the splendour of beauty of this architectural masterpiece and hear the stories related to it and its residents.

You are welcome to share this my post with friends. Your guide in Austria 🤓 Oleg

18/06/2021

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💉 Here it is, my first of two vaccination shots against Covid. The next one will I have, according to the plan, in three weeks. So works then the vaccine better, they say. This shot did I get yesterday by Dr. Nicole Schönbauer in Traiskirchen, south of Vienna. It was done very gently. Thank you Frau Doctor. 😃

💉 Then my wife, as she got vaccinated as well, and I were observed by assistant Philipp Tannert, a medical doctor to be, for the next 15-20 minutes to make sure, that there are no critical side effects. Thereafter people happily move on.

💉 In Austria, it is so organized, that those, who are willing to get vaccinated, can sign up centralised online and choose a preferable date and place of vaccination from among those available at the data bank online. The vaccine itself though cannot be chosen. One gets what is available at the moment. Those without access to the Internet can be helped to get registered online at the local town hall or similar.

💉 The only side effect, that I have, is feeling the shot spot when lifting the arm. That's it. Otherwise nothing particularly weakening. My wife does not have even this. 😆 A brave woman.

💉 From the Vaccination webpage, as well as from the vaccination card, I learned that the vaccine, colloquially known as Pfizer, is actually Comirnaty, whereas Pfizer along with BioNTech are surely those who produce it.

💉 My dear guests to be, we all have to be safe for each other, when we meet for guided tours. Vaccination is a token of our care and responsibility for one another. 😃 Stay safe and come soon! Welcome to Austria!

📝 And what do you think on vaccination?

You are welcome to share this my post with friends. Your guide in Austria 🤓 Oleg

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16/06/2021

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It is lastly quite hot in Austria. That means a year long awaited strawberry 🍓 time. Each year in May-June, farmers around Vienna open their 🍓 fields for visitors to harvest. This is a sort of crowd farming. People pay the lowest possible for the collected strawberry. This year it is €4,50 per kilo, that is at least twice cheaper, than elsewhere. Also, one can eat on the field as much as he wants 😋 It is so enjoyable there. Besides, one can see there why those berries are strawberries. 😃 Just love it!

You are welcome to share this my post with friends. Your guide in Austria 🤓 Oleg

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13/06/2021

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🥂 Greetings to all! A good thing available since a few days. Heuriger are open again! A Heuriger is a cultural heritage of wine restaurants (sort of restaurants) in Eastern Austria. Only here you can get wines produced by the same family that sells it to you.

🥂 What you see now is an open air Heuriger in the middle of vineyards nearby Pfaffstätten in the Thermenregion South of Vienna. Here you can come and, enjoying great Austrian wines, have a chat with a friend, read a book or simply enjoy the 🌞.

🥂 If you like and value wines like I do, if you enjoy chatting about this noble drops, you are more than welcome to join me for a wine and gastro tour in close vicinity of Vienna.

You are welcome to share this my post with friends. Your guide in Austria 🤓 Oleg

03/06/2021

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😃 Hi guys! Today in Catholic Austria (well, at least to some extent still Catholic) we have a holiday. Everything, except for coffee shops, restaurants, heuriger, and churches, is closed. It is the holiday of Corpus Christi or of the Most Holy Eucharist. Although some Covid restrictions remain, church processions with the Blessed Sacrament were allowed this year. This one is in Trumau, Baden.

🥩🍷Usually, there is a simple reception, or agape, offered at the parish after the procession, not this year yet. And still why not to offer something of the kind in the family or to one's beloved? Well said, well done. This time, a Greek kleftiko from lamb and wonderful Cabernet Sauvignon from an Austrian wine maker Hannes Steurer from Jois of Neusiedlersee still from 2000. That was a good choice for today. I wish you all a wonderful 😃 time!

You are welcome to share this my post with friends. Your guide in Austria 🤓 Oleg

21/04/2021

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🇮🇱 Have you been in the old Jewish part of Vienna? It is very beautiful, cosy and attractive in its streets and backyards. Some things might seem perplaxing 🙄 though. You can find things that are rather Christian in that part.

🇮🇱 For a Catholic theologian also, there would be a dilemma. 😃 How so, that the Trinity is small? There is the restaurant 'By the small Trinity' there on the Jewish Square. Are there big and small Trinities? In fact, there is a small figure of Trinity in the niche on the bilding. Come and see it.

🇮🇱 The restaurant, usually well visited, remains, however, closed for the time being till the end of the lockdown. They say, it might change already in mid-May. So, it is a high time to start packing your travel bags and plan your trip to Vienna.

You are welcome to share this my post with friends. Your guide in Austria 🤓 Oleg

#подорожую #еврейскийквартал #отпускначался #отпускэтохорошо

18/04/2021

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🏞️ I was in those recent sunny days strolling through the Kurpark Oberlaa, located in the southern part of Vienna, taking vitamin D or at least trying to do it. This area has been developed for the Vienna International Garden Exhibition back in 1974 and then remained as a park until today.

🏞️ It is a huge place with various parts and views. Looking further South one can see the Anninger Mount in the Vienna woods. There in the park, you can find a place for peacefull reading or for active exercises, for meditation or for children running around with many other ones on various play grounds. Many trees are numbered and registered. I don't know, whether all of them. Yet I found one with the number equal to the present year 2021. Yes, there are 2022 etc. nearby.

🏞️ There are lakes, sculptures, fields, and even a Japanese garden. Yet of it will I tell you on another occasion. 😃 I still owe you a post on French stairs. Right?

🏞️ Have a great weekend!

You are welcome to share this my post with friends. Your guide in Austria 🤓 Oleg

#отпускпродолжается #командировка💼 #подорожувати #вихідні #вихідний #выходнойдень #хочувотпуск

11/04/2021

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🗼Hi friends! Although always in Austria, I would like to present to you a piece of France here. The spiral stairs or, as they used to be called, French stairs, made from cast iron. Now a bit of motion, when using such stairs. More on what, how and why French at all comes in the next post.
😃 See you soon!

#лестница #лестницы #церква #церковнаяархитектура #архитектура #архітектура #сходи #подорожуйзнами

16/03/2021

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🏫 Once, roaming in Europe, you are in Vienna, you might want to stay at the Hotel Imperial for a night or two or... Well, 😉 depends on your budget.

🏫 The building was constructed by Arnold Zenetti back in 1865 in the Italian Neorenaissance style. That time it did not have the upper two floors, that remind somehow a Greek temple. Initially, it was a residence and thus a palace for the just married young couple of Archduchess Marie Therese of Austria (the other one 🧐) and Duke Philip von Württemberg (Germany). It was one of the first buildings on the Vienna's Ringstrasse, built on the glacis of the just being removed city walls of Vienna.

🏫 The young family moved in in 1866, yet lived there only for the following five years. In 1870 just on the back side of the palace was constructed the famous to be Vienna Philharmonic, that hindered the view from the palace on the river Vienna (nowadays covered underground there). Also the street hindered access to the parc.

🏫 In 1871, the family sold the palace. The solution was rapidly found and the palace was rearranged into a hotel, that was festively inaugurated in 1873 by Emperor Franz Joseph. The last two floors were additionally constructed already at the time of republic in 1928.

🏫 This hotel knew quite a few famous people of politics and of culture staying there. Prince Otto von Bismarck, King Milan of Serbia, Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Adolf Hi**er, John Kennedy, Nikita Chrustchov, Richard Nixon, Marshal Tito, King Leopold of Belgium, Indira Gandhi, Queen Elisabeth of England, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Emperor Akihito.

🏫 Yet also Richard Wagner, Thomas Mann, John Galsworthy, Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Sinatra, Woody Allen, Vladimir Horowitz, Mick Jagger, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson (there wrote he his Earth Song).

🏫 Now it is your time to come and stay there 😃 or to taste the hotel's famous Imperial cake. See you then by my tours in Vienna.

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