Private tour in Vienna Laura T
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Book with a 20% deposit
up to 10 people
3 hours
walking
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Laura T.
Servus & welcome to Vienna! Like many other Viennese, I chose Vienna as my heartfelt home because...
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Around 1900, Vienna experienced a brief but extraordinary moment when brilliant minds and groundbreaking ideas converged, giving rise to something vibrant and new. Sigmund Freud pioneered psychoanalysis, while the Medical University of Vienna ranked among the world’s finest. Composers like Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg reshaped the musical landscape. In the visual arts, the Wiener Werkstätte revolutionized applied arts and design, while the Secessionists boldly declared that Modernity had arrived at last. Yet, beneath this flourishing creativity, Vienna was a city of contradictions. The empire remained under an aging emperor clinging to absolutist ideals, even as society fractured—Modernity versus Catholic conservatism, poverty versus opulence, monarchy versus rising democracy, socialism, and nationalism. It was an epoch of awakening, a city in transition, caught between the past and the future.
Tour covers ca. 1,5 miles & includes 1 museum: • Ringstrasse & Historicist Grandeur: consider monumental buildings of the ‘Gründerzeit’ era as symbols of imperial power and bourgeois aspiration. • Socio-economic & Political Revolutions: understand how the environment changed and ideals and aspirations followed suit. • Intellectual & Creative Renewal: Visit an iconic café where figures like Stefan Zweig and Arthur Schnitzler forged new paths and Sigmund Freud contemplated psychoanalysis. • Jewish Vienna & Social Contrasts: Discover the contributions and struggles of Vienna’s Jewish population, central to the city’s cultural life. • Architecture in Transition: draw the line from Otto Wagner’s modernist buildings to Adolf Loos’ radical simplicity. • Learn about Secession Movement & Artistic Revolution and visit the Leopold Museum, home to the world’s largest Egon Schiele collection, OR the Museum of Applied Arts to see design from the Wiener Werkstätte (choice of museum depends on opening times/availability).
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We'll cover approx. 1 - 1,5 miles of flat terrain with some cobbles and a few stairs. Both museums are accessible to wheelchairs, so the otherwise necessary stairs can be avoided for guests requiring it. On days where we visit the MAK (due to closure of the Leopold museum) we will take the streetcar for a few stops along the Ring road. 1 ticket per person to the museum will be provided in this case.
1 Universitätsring, Wien, Wien, 1010 Austria
We meet at the entrance of the University of Vienna - the main buiding on the Ring Road. I will be wearing a pink scarf and a guide badge. Upon request, a different meeting point might be arranged, in which case we would travel here together by public transportation to start the tour.
Includes all fees
Book with a 20% deposit
Size:
up to 10 people
Duration:
3 hours
Transportation:
walking
1
View pricing details
Includes all fees
Book with a 20% deposit
Size:
up to 10 people
Duration:
3 hours
Transportation:
walking
1
View pricing details
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