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 […]
One of the problems for a growing city is where to put all the people - and not just the live ones. As Vienna neared the end of the 19th century, it was clear that the existing cemeteries weren’t up to the job long-term.
So the authorities raided the savings account and bought up a large […]
Vienna has plenty of rare sights, but perhaps none rarer than the Giant Pandas found in Schönbrunn Zoo.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, there are only about 1600 of these bears left. Most of them are in China, either wild, in reserves or in captivity. A very few (about a dozen) live outside […]
The Ring is a wide tree-lined boulevard that encircles the very center of the city. It’s about 6.5km long and probably has a greater number of historical sights lining its edges than any other road in the world.
As a visitor, you might be forgiven for thinking the city planners designed the Ring as a tourist […]
Elsewhere I’ve written about the Burgtheater’s history and highlighted a few fascinating facts about the building. But you’ll want to know a little about experiencing the place face-to-face.
You’ll find the theater on Vienna’s Ring, opposite the Rathaus (town hall). It’s within a short walk of two subway stations: “Rathaus” on the U2 and “Herrengasse” on […]
