![]() If you want to take it with you, they put it in special wooden boxes so it can be transported to other parts of the world. Chocolate Paradise! Make a reservation if you don’t want to turn into a salt column waiting outside to gen in during December. ![]() Taste Sacher Hotel’s authentic sacher torte cake. Of course there is a Christmas Market in front of the Habsburg summer palace, perhaps the most classically styled Christmas market of all.ħ. You can’t leave without admiring the view of Vienna from above, from the top of the hill where the magnificent Gloriette stands, a neoclassical arch behind the lake with ducks. Tiergarten Zoo is today a popular attraction of the palace, as well as its greenhouse. Walk around as a member of the Royal Family in the gardens of the baroque Schönbrunn Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has been a summer residence of monarchs since the mid-18th century. Do not be surprised 1) by the long line queue of people crowd waiting outside, 2) that the whole dish is made up of only schnitzel (and even it overflowing). Savour an authentic schnitzel in Figlmüller, the so-called “schnitzel’s house”. There you will find organic food and drinks.ĥ. Take a photo on the wooden bridge with the lights and the magnificent dome behind you. Visit the Karlsplatz Christmas Market in front of the imposing Karlskirche Church. You’ll be immediately charged $ 1.50 per glass of water. On the contrary, don’t make the mistake of asking for a glass of water. Taste the “Viennese Chicken” chicken with parsley potatoes and a delicious salad. Take a coffee or better a lunch break at the classic Viennese Café Landtmann, from another era (literally-since 1873), across the Town Hall. The Viennese consider it kitsch but it is definitely the most impressive and it’s ok to have a bit of an exaggeration at Christmas.ģ. ![]() Go to the spectacular Christmas market Rathausplatz in front of the Town Hall, which will make you believe in fairy tales again. Stephen’s Cathedral, then along Graben Road and up Kohlmarkt Road to Hofburg Palace.Ģ. Take a stroll in the evening, starting from the Opera House, walking down Kärntner Straße to St. Follow the Christmas lights of Vienna with thousands of crystals and giant chandeliers bringing an imperial ballroom atmosphere to the main pedestrian streets of downtown. But if you want to keep it, there is no problem, as they come up with new christmas designs on the mugs every year.ġ5 things to do in Vienna at Christmas time:ġ. You will be asked to pay a guarantee (4 €) for it, which will be refunded when you return the mug to any counter at the same Christmas market. Here you can see their exact dates of operation.Įach Christmas Market also has its own Christmas collectible mug for hot wine (punsch). There are a few that open after Christmas and last until the year changes. If you want to experience the Christmas fairy tale, then you have to visit Vienna during those days, walk under a sky of christmas lamps on its streets, get lost in its Christmas markets – literally in every corner of downtown – to warm up with a “punsch”, sweet hot wine in a Christmas mug, get carried away by its fairy tale setting and mainly by its scents… roasted chestnuts, gingerbread cinnamon cake, hot orange wine and orange peach that you will find on the stands and wooden christmas houses.Ĭhristmas markets in Vienna start around mid-November and close on December 23 or 26. Vienna is divided into 23 apartments, in the same sense as Paris, with the first being the most popular with code 1010 (the 2 mid-digits denote the apartment – if you don’t know it, you definitely need a “decoder” ). Christmas, however, becomes even more of a fairy tale, a dream come true. The architecture of many of its buildings, the small cute cafes and the glamor of an old-fashioned aristocratic era, all gave rise to this notion. Vienna through my eyes looked like a little Paris. For this destination I didn’t even have to search for anything, since my friend Silia, also known as The Viennese Girl, stays there, so I just let her take me to the best parts of her city (hm on foot, of course, because horse-drawn carriages cost 80 euros for 40 minutes or 50 euros for 20 minutes). The trip was a damn fact and my mood was decorated with Christmas lights. An exploratory look at December’s tickets was enought to reserve my plane seat within 5 minutes. Wait! Don’t start yet! Put some –appropriate- music on first!Ī failed attempt in the past to visit Vienna at Christmas time, made me want even more this year to explore this city’s fabulous Christmas world, even if I had to disguise myself as a Santa’s Elf.
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