So how do you get to see the Lipizzaner horses in action? Relatively easily it turns out, provided you can settle for less than a fully fledged performance.
The formal performances take place four to six times a month, usually on the weekend. Exceptions are when the school is touring and during much of July and […]
The history of the art of horse riding dates back almost 2,500 years to the time of the Greeks. Xenophon — a student of Socrates — wrote the first (and for a long time only) books on the subject: On Horsemanship and The Cavalry General (the links take you to online translations).
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The life of a Lipizzaner stallion is not all pirouettes and gala evenings. And it begins far from the Viennese crowds in the rural idyll that is the Piber stud farm in Styria.
A week after the birth, the mare and foal return to the main breeding herd. Six months later, all that season’s young foals […]
Within the stables complex (German: Stallburg) of the Spanish Riding School you’ll find a small museum dedicated to the history and heritage of the school’s horses - the Lipizzaners.
The entrance and gift shop is in the former Imperial and Royal Court Pharmacy. You can see the original draws labelled with exotic herbs around the sides […]
Vienna’s famous Spanish Riding School features a breed of horse known as Lipizzaner (often called Lipizzan in North America), who can trace their lineage back to the sixteenth century. Only the stallions are used in the school.
Cast your minds back to the occupation of Spain by the Moors, which began in the early 8th century […]
