Art Nouveau Tour City Walking and Tram Tour City Bus Tour City Walking Tour Jewish Vienna City Walking Tour 30.

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1 Tour Title Cost Art Nouveau Tour City Walking and Tram Tour City Bus Tour City Walking Tour Jewish Vienna City Walking Tour Gourmet Walking Tour Graffiti Explorer Spanish Riding School Vienna Woods Follow Sisi s Footsteps City Walking Tour with Cake and Coffee 46.00

2 Art Nouveau Tour During this excursion, we will introduce you to some of the principal works of Vienna s Art Nouveau architecture, including the famous Secession and the Kirche am Steinhof. Over the years, Vienna s art and culture have become a household name, with connoisseurs from all over the world coming to admire the paintings of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, and the architecture of Otto Wagner, whose buildings brought about a vital change in Vienna s urban image. To the age its art to art, its freedom was his motto, which has inspired eminent painters, architects and designers to create fascinating art, which is admired all over the world to this day. This tour will last approximately 3 hours and will start and end at ACV; included in the tour cost is your transport by deluxe coach, guide and entrance fee and tour of Kirche am Steinhof. Sunday 25 th August 09:30 12:30 Tuesday 27 th August 09:30 12:30 Cost: City Bus Tour This tour will give you an overall impression of the most significant sights of Vienna. The coach will depart from the ACV and drive along the Ringstrasse, with its magnificent buildings, such as the Opera House, City Hall, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hofburg, to name just a few. Then it s on to the centre of Vienna to visit one of its architectural jewels, the Schönbrunn Palace. The entrance to the former summer residence of the Hapsburg rulers gives a magnificent impression of the glorious imperial era and the highlight will be a guided tour of the Palace State Rooms. The tour will last approximately 3 hours and will start and end at ACV; included in the tour cost is transport by deluxe coach, guide, skip the line entrance and private tour of Schönbrunn Palace. Saturday 24 th August 15:00 18:00 Sunday 25 th August 13:30 16:30 Monday 26 th August 14:30 17:30 Tuesday 27 th August 14:30 17:30 Cost: City Walking and Tram Tour Your guide will accompany you on the metro (U-Bahn) to downtown Vienna, where you will board a private, historic tram to travel along the Vienna Ringstrasse. During the 30-minute journey, you will see the Vienna State Opera House, Parliament, the City Hall and much more, while enjoying a glass of sparkling wine or a soft drink. The tram will stop at Schwedenplatz, from where you will take a walking tour through the downtown area of the city, to St. Stephen s Square and the Imperial Palace, where the tour ends and your guide will accompany you back to the ACV. The tour will take approximately 3 hours and will start and end at ACV; included in the tour cost are metro tickets, guide and a private tram ride with a drink on board.

3 Sunday 25 th August 15:00 18:00 Monday 26 th August 15:00 18:00 Wednesday 28 th August 14:00 17:00 Cost: City Walking Tour - Jewish Vienna The history of Vienna s Jews is inextricably linked with that of the city, and dates back over 800 years. The city s many museums and memorial sites provide living reminders of this. You will first explore this important part of Vienna with your guide and then visit the four floors of the Jewish Museum, featuring exhibitions of Jewish culture through the ages, right down to the smallest detail. In 1995, archaeologists found the walls of one of the largest medieval synagogues in Europe underneath Judenplatz the underground excavations can be viewed inside the museum, which, together with a model of the medieval city and computer animations, give a fascinating insight into Jewish life in Vienna in the Middle Ages. your metro tickets, guide and entrance fee and private tour of the Jewish Museum Vienna. Please note you will need your passport for this tour, for ID purposes Saturday 24 th August 14:30 17:30 Monday 26 th August 13:30 16:30 Wednesday 28 th August 13:30 16:30 Cost: City Walking Tour with Cake and Coffee Starting at the ACV, you will take the metro downtown with your guide. The innermost centre of Vienna is partly a pedestrian zone and, right in the heart, you will find one of its most prominent landmarks St Stephen s Cathedral. After a private tour of the cathedral, you will continue along Kärntner Strasse, Graben and Kohlmarkt, the famous shopping streets of Vienna, and through some of the picturesque back streets, passing by the Vienna State Opera, the Imperial Palace and much more. A highlight of the tour will be a coffee break to try the Viennese speciality coffee, Wiener Melange (or tea or hot chocolate) and a piece of cake. The tour will last approximately 2.5 hours and will start and end at ACV; included in the tour cost are your metro tickets, guide, entrance fee and private tour of St Stephen s Cathedral, coffee and cake.

4 Sunday 25 th August 13:00 15:30 Tuesday 27 th August 14:00 16:30 Duration: 2.5 hours Cost: City Walking Tour Starting from ACV, you will take the metro downtown with your guide. The innermost centre of Vienna is partly a pedestrian zone and, right in the heart, you will find one of its most prominent landmarks St Stephen s Cathedral. St Stephen s Cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, and was constructed on the ruins of two earlier churches. After a private tour of the cathedral, you will continue to wander through the famous central shopping area of Vienna, as well as the historic streets which are home to the Vienna State Opera, the Imperial Palace and much more. your metro tickets, guide and entrance fee and private tour of St Stephen s Cathedral. Saturday 24 th August 13:00 16:00 Monday 26 th August 13:00 16:00 Wednesday 28 th August 13:00 16:00 Cost: Follow Sisi s Footsteps Acquaint yourself with Vienna s unique history on this guided walking tour, following in the footsteps of Empress Elisabeth of Austria affectionally known to millions as Sisi, her childhood nickname. In 1854, Emperor Franz Joseph married Elisabeth, who quickly became a fairy-tale princess in the eyes of the public, but was tragically assassinated in Geneva in Even over a century after her death, her hold on the public imagination remains undiminished. You will take the metro from ACV into the city centre, where your tour will start with a visit to the Imperial Crypt, the burial place of 149 Habsburgs, of which 12 were emperors and 19 empresses and queens, including Empress Elisabeth. You will continue on to the Hofburg, official residence of Elisabeth and Franz Joseph. Nowadays, the Sisi Museum is housed in the former Imperial Palace Apartments, where numerous exhibits from her life, from her first milk tooth to the file she was assassinated with, are on display. your metro tickets, entrance fees, guide and tours of the Imperial Crypt and the Sisi Museum.

5 Saturday 24 th August 13:30 16:30 Tuesday 27 th August 13:30 16:30 Cost: Gourmet Walking Tour Join your gourmet guide for a culinary walk through Vienna s Naschmarkt to explore the realms of food on a journey of culinary discovery. Since the 16 th century, Austria s most famous market has supplied the Viennese with both local and imported produce and acted as a vital social hub. The market is ever-changing, with seasonal influences, and offers an enormous variety of meat, fish, cheese, bread, charcuterie, patisserie, fruit and vegetables, as well as exotic herbs and spices, and international delicacies from every continent. The opportunity to taste various samples will bring you closer to the world full of different flavours, and you will be given some culinary tips on how to use the spices and prepare various dishes. your metro tickets, guide and tour with tasting at Naschmarkt. Saturday 24 th August 08:30 11:30 Tuesday 27 th August 08:30 11:30 Cost: Graffiti Explorer Vienna is not only the home of classical art it is also a showcase for modern graffiti, and the embankment walls of the Danube Canal form a single, giant canvas. Graffiti artists are allowed to spray their artworks there perfectly legally, and this is an opportunity for you to try your hand, too! You will learn the basics of graffiti art, step by step, with tips and tricks from the pros. Afterwards, you can give your imagination free rein and create your own artworks. The tour will last approximately 3.5 hours and will start and end at ACV; included in the tour cost are deluxe coach transport, guide and workshop with materials. Sunday 25 th August 09:00 12:30 Wednesday 28 th August 09:00 12:30 Duration: 3.5 hours Cost: 89.00

6 Spanish Riding School Vienna s world-famous Spanish Riding School is the only equestrian institution in the world which has practised classical dressage in the Renaissance tradition for more than 450 years. During this tour, you will gain an insight into the years of training of the Lipizzaners and their riders. You will have VIP seats for the morning training session, which is accompanied by classical Viennese music, and a headset providing commentary by an official from the Riding School. Following the training session, you will have a private guided tour of the Winter Riding School, the Summer Riding School and the historic stables of the Lipizzaner stallions. This tour will last approximately 3 hours and will start and end at ACV; included in the tour cost are transport by deluxe coach, guide, VIP seats for the training session, headset and a private tour. Tuesday 27 th August 10:15 13:15 Wednesday 28 th August 10:15 13:15 Cost: Vienna Woods The hilly areas around Vienna, immortalised by Johann Strauss famous waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, are home to numerous significant historic sites and beautiful scenery. You will visit the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz with its cloisters and the tomb of the last ruler of the House of Babenberg. You will also pass through Mayerling, where the lives of Crown-Prince Rudolf and Marie Vetsera ended in tragedy. After passing by the Höldrichsmühle, where Schubert composed his classic song, The Linden Tree, you will arrive at the Seegrotte, a former gypsum mine and now the largest subterranean lake in Europe, where you will take a boat ride through the vast cave system, before returning to the ACV. The tour will last approximately 4 hours and will start and end at ACV; included in the tour cost are transport by deluxe coach, guide, entrance fee to Heiligenkreuz Abbey and Seegrotte boat ride. Please be aware that there are a lot of steps at the Seegrotte. Monday 26 th August 09:00 13:00 Tuesday 27 th August 13:30 17:30 Duration: 4 hours Cost: 65.00