Insight Cities

07/11/2024

A winter trip to Budapest can brighten the cold season ahead of us, with the twinkling Christmas lights of the festive markets, aromatic mulled wine and Hungarian street food. You can also warm up along with the locals flocking to ornate thermal baths that testify to the Budapest's Ottoman legacy.

With concerts and exhibitions to check out too, there's no shortage of Christmas, New Year's and Winter events to attend in the former imperial capital. Our latest blog covers our top tips for events this winter in Budapest.

Explore winter events in Budapest - including Christmas markets, performances, food festivals, and art bazaars.

31/10/2024

We visited Le Corbusier's colorful 1950s "Unité d'Habitation" building this trip to Berlin. This was his realization of a "vertical city," a high-density housing that provides not only apartments but also communal spaces, services - shops, kindergartens.

The floors are called "strassen" (streets), because the corridors stretch out as long as city streets. The famously low ceilings maximize space. See Vadim and Eyal touching the ceiling!. It was really exciting to enjoy the view from the top, especially in this sensational autumn days we lucked into for this Berlin visit. Looking forward to arranging this tour for lovers of architecture history.

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28/10/2024

So many thanks to our partner, Eyal, a guide who specializes in Berlin's more hidden and farflung sites, for a fascinating trip to Teufelsberg, the former US spy station turned into a labrynthine hub for street artists. In additon to the major sites of Berlin, we're excited to constantly add to the array of off-the-beaten-trail experiences we arrange for travellers to our cities.

22/10/2024

For those planning on a trip to Berlin this winter, you'll find a thriving international hub of art, technology and culture. Germany's cosmopolitan capital offers a wealth of ways to brighten the cold, longer days. With exhibitions, concerts, festivals and Christmas markets, the city has a crowded calendar of winter events. Check out our top picks for the best events in Berlin for winter 2024, and consider taking a tour with us!

Discover the best events in Berlin this winter - including Christmas markets, film festivals, art shows, and skating rinks.

02/10/2024

Our favorite puppet store in Prague, Loutky Michael, reminds us that certain things are done in the former Austrian Empire as in no other place - for three: cakes, formal dancing, and puppets!

You can even get a masters degree in puppet theater in this country at Prague's Academy of Performing Arts Theater Faculty (Damu). Aren't they wonderful?

27/09/2024

The return of outdoor Christmas Markets to all of Prague’s major squares in November brings light and festive cheer to the darker days that end the year. Visitors and residents can once again make merry among lighted wooden stalls with vendors selling Christmas ornaments, gifts, jewelry, local crafts, mulled wine (svařák) and hot honey wine (medovina).

Here’s our insider 2024 info on how best to spend a Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Prague, and tips on the best events you won’t want to miss this winter.

Explore the magic of Prague in winter with festive Christmas markets, ice skating, and cultural events, all set against the city's enchanting historical backdrop.

06/09/2024

Given its location in the southern heart of Europe, Budapest experiences a longer summer than many of its Central European contemporaries, making the latter months of the year the perfect time to visit Hungary’s Pearl on the Danube. With a number of different cultural and culinary happenings on offer this fall 2024, including new theatrical premieres, music festivals, wine tastings and art exhibitions, we highly recommend a late-year visit to the city.

Experience Budapest in the fall: wine festivals, cultural celebrations, exhibitions, performances and an art market fill out a temperate autumn season.

28/08/2024

Berlin’s dynamism and energy never let up as the seasons change. While the action tends to move indoors in the autumn, Berlin’s numerous parks are still where you want to be, as the city begins to look like a giant landscape painting, with the incredible hues of the season. Art, culture, and culinary events abound, as Germany also marks the important anniversary of its post-Cold War reunification. Read on for our curated recommendations for enjoying the German capital’s fall harvest of events.

Explore Berlin in the fall: lively festivals, art exhibitions, and music events, all set against the backdrop of vibrant autumn colors.

23/08/2024

We hiked up to 13th-century Castle Bezděz on our way home to Prague from Lake Mácha (which you can spy in the distance behind Vadim on the tower).

What makes it an especially great ruin is they never refurbished its original Gothic into another style. Easy to see why it inspired romantic verses from the great Czech poet, Mácha. Over the past decade, we're proud to have helped hundreds of guests venture outside our great capital city, Prague, to explore the more farflung wonders of the Czech Republic like this one!

16/08/2024

As summer ends, some of us return to our usual routines, but Vienna never stops shaking things up with art and music events galore. Our newest blog gives autumn travelers a heads up how to search out and enjoy the best exhibitions and festivals taking place in the Imperial City in fall 2024.

Discover Vienna's fall events: from classical concerts and art fairs to food festivals and vibrant cultural celebrations amidst stunning autumn scenery.

09/08/2024

The days are getting shorter and the nights will start getting cooler, but the Prague event calendar is just warming up at the end of the summer season. Count on wine harvest festivals, urban light art, design festivals and celebrations marking 100 years of Kafka. In our latest post we share the inside info on the best exhibitions, events, and festivals happening across the city of a hundred spires this fall!

Explore the vibrant hues of autumn in Prague with Insight Cities. Discover the city's top events, festivals, and cultural highlights during the fall season, from art exhibitions and food festivals to historical commemorations and urban experiences. Plan your autumn adventure in the heart of Europe.

30/07/2024

Concluding our blog series on how to travel with kids through Central Europe is the most child-friendly of capitals, Vienna! Check out the wealth of museums, parks, and special experiences that Vienna has for the youngest members of your family. Of course, we offer our very own Vienna for Children Tour with fabulous expert guides, who help kids discover Austria's capital through myths, legends and fun facts about real people and personalities.

Once you've read our tips for Vienna, check out our blogs on crafting memorable trips for child travelers to Prague, Berlin, Budapest and Salzburg!

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Discover family fun in Vienna! We highlight the city's best activities for kids, including hands-on museums, outdoor adventures, and unique experiences.

22/07/2024

Vadim and I are pretty stoked about our new partnership with Pilsner Urquell Experience. To cement our cooperation, they hosted us at their Tapster Academy!

20/06/2024

What makes us proud during Pride Month?

Launching our newest tour in honor of q***r history: Q***r Berlin: Birthplace of LGBTQ+ Movements! Find out why 1920s Berlin became a magnet for creative individuals and progressive freedoms, where the Insitute of Sexual Science was founded along with the first campaign on earth to abolish the legal persecution of homosexuals. Your 3 hours with a historian guide takes you to sites that illuminate Berlin's many remarkable q***r trailblazers, while you discover Schöneberg, the world's first gay ghetto.

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Discover Berlin's vibrant q***r history on this 3-hour walking tour, exploring sites that illuminate LGBTQ+ trailblazers and the world's first gay ghetto.

10/06/2024

Glory to the Gloriette? If we had to choose one excessive thing on the grounds of Maria Theresa's summer palace as our favorite, it has to be the fake Roman ruins!

For a deep dive into the symbolism of these lavish formal gardens, we recommend our Schönbrunn tour, where you explore the principles of Baroque landscaping as well as the palace interiors. Your expert guide steers you through the grand dining room to the Hall of Ceremonies, the Porcelain Room, and the Millions Room. Learn how these ostentatious displays of the Habsburgs’ immense power, influence and wealth functioned as a crucial mode of courtly representation.

Find more information here: https://www.insightcities.com/tour/schonbrunn-palace-and-gardens-tour/

05/06/2024

Feeling lucky to have had an evening enjoying the beautiful views of Vienna from Das Loft Bar with its great ceiling by Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist.

04/06/2024

Finally made it back to Vienna, to work with our remarkable guide team here, rendezvous with cousins, eat up astonishing amounts of cake, schnitzel, potato salad and tafelspitz and hear Beethoven's 5th at Musikverein!

30/05/2024

There is truly a kids' Prague to be discovered and explored, well beyond our cobbled streets and Gothic castle and soaring towers. Here's the next installment of our blog on family-friendly ways to enjoy Central Europe's capitals. In Prague, we provide gifted guides who happily customize tours with scavenger hunts and and great storytelling for multigenerational groups. Our blog will also direct you to our favorite fun for young travelers to the Golden City, including our beautiful zoo, funicular, mirror maze and fabulous summer festival of small circuses!

Discover the best fun activities in Prague for kids beyond the castle so you can all enjoy an unforgettable family adventure in this historic city.