Visiting Vienna

Ludwig van Beethoven had the dubious pleasure of three burials. He died on the 25th of March, 1827 in Vienna and was buried four days later in the Währinger Ortsfriedhof (a cemetery in one of Vienna’s outlying districts).
Then in 1863 the authorities decided to repair his burial site. They exhumed the body and put it […]

Austria and Vienna are not short of a few famous local and adopted sons and daughters, and a good selection of them found their last resting place in the Zentralfriedhof (Vienna’s main cemetery).
If you visit the site, you won’t find any information on where the most interesting graves and crypts are, which is fair enough […]