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Half Day Walking Tour of Vienna
Joined 2022
Experience with me in the over centuries smallest metropolis of this world, the city of Vienna, what it has to do with its myths and its real history.
I look with you behind the beautiful scenes and debunk myths like the Habsburgs, the world famous beauty, still a "beast" Sisi or even look into the myths of time changing emperor Joseph the second
Itinerary
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Meeting Point
Helmut Zilk Platz
Meeting point
Helmut Zilk Platz
Albertina Museum
Overview of Austria, destruction of the city wall, Vienna becoming a real city after being a village for centuries, memorial against war and fascism, Albertina museum the first building of the "Hofburg" the city residence of the emperors
Josephs Square
First try of building a palace as a residency in 1710, not achieving its aim. Why might Joseph II. statue be looking like Marc Aurel, the roman cesar and what did he do to his subjects? Nit to forget the invisible most important church ever to the Habsburgs, even more important than St Stephens Cathedral?
Swiss Court of Hofburg
More than 900 year old fortress built long before Habsburgs even thought to take over. Find out the real concept of a fortress and how the buildings changed within the times
Inner Court Hofburg
Emperor "Francis the second, first"- how come he got these titles? A clock that makes sure that the world is changing strongly
Heroes Square
Two wonderful Statues of heroes, on a real one, the other one not more than a propaganda heroe. A balcony with darkest secrets etc
Michaeler Square
A building bey the emperor and the Viennes at it's times, erotic angels and roman excavations having a lot to reveal
A hidden path
A view into baroque times with pleasant and rather unpleasant parts of life
Plague Column
A plague column telling us different concepts than the regular ones
Saint Stephens Cathedral
The impressive beautiful gothic cathedral with it's plan behind it's fassades
The German Order
The more that 1100 years location of the german order, the place where W. A. Mozart got kicked out.
Rauhensteingasse
"Rough stone street", where the "rough stone" gets polished by Freemacons and the concert Café that was opened by the personal cook of empress Maria Theresa and not to forget tax systems of these times (sounds boring, but is not at all!)
Ending point
Café Frauenhuber
Ending Point
Café Frauenhuber
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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
guide fee
transportation, lunch
Tour Important Information
Mondays through Fridays only after 1600 o'clock except holydays and school holydays
Weekends any time
Important message from the supplier
Hallstadt, Bad Ischl, Salzburg, Wachau Valley, Graz, Innsbruck, Prague, Budapest
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2022
About Tour Guide Florian B.
The soul behind the scenes or: The core beyond your expectations
Looking behind the scenes and telling stories has always been my passion. Growing up in Salzburg and the Salzkammergut region, I have loved finding out exciting things in the simplest of things since childhood and passing on what I have found out is actually an even greater one. What good is all that "useless knowledge" if you can't share it?
25 years as a production manager and researcher in film have made me sure that what's behind is more exciting than what you see in the first moment. My enthusiasm for the story at hand sometimes carries me away in such a way that I find it hard to let it fall into secrecy.
And then the idea came up to turn all this knowledge and the desire to pass it on into something meaningful. From there it was not far to the training as a guide. Three years later and a few exams later I started to practice this profession and I realize that it is more and more fun to see how people get involved in what I am telling them.
As a guide, I don't see myself as a data mediator, but rather as the one who brings the local attitude to life closer to his guests and makes it possible to experience it; this is not possible with pure numbers, data and facts, which are also important, but it is much more important for me to bring out the individual fates and their influences up to the present day.
Of course, this may, no! - must sometimes come along with a mischievous wink, it is precisely the irony and humor that make up the actual "flavor" of things. Truth is too important a commodity to be sacrificed to pure objectivity, since it is never black and white and can usually only be found between the lines. I have always been searching for this truth and it is important to me to convey it.
$680/ per group
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