How Do I Love Thee, Vienna

Belvedere Palace Two years ago we first visited Vienna for five days and were so delighted by it that we returned again to this extraordinary Austrian city for the entire month of August. I love Vienna now even more than before. Here are fourteen reasons why. There are almost 1,000 municipal parks in Vienna, including … Continue reading How Do I Love Thee, Vienna →

Walking Vienna’s Ring Road

One recommended activity to get a good sense of some of Vienna’s architectural and cultural delights is to walk the Ring Road (Ringstrasse) around the inner city. It takes about 1.5 hours to complete if you’re not stopping. I decided to give this a try the other day. I started my walk beside the neoclassical … Continue reading Walking Vienna’s Ring Road →

Discovering Pieter Bruegel

Art History Museum We recently went to Vienna’s Art History Museum, an impressive structure built “under Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph to accommodate the collections acquired by the emperors and archdukes of the House of Habsburg over the centuries,” according to its brochure. The museum is known by locals as KHM, short for the Kunsthistorisches (Art … Continue reading Discovering Pieter Bruegel →

The Albertina Museum

The Albertina Museum is splendid both in terms of its wide-ranging collection of artists and its location inside a former palace in the heart of Vienna. Before you enter the museum, you will notice many older buildings of interest that surround it. It sits between the Hofburg palace complex and the State Opera House, for … Continue reading The Albertina Museum →

Vienna, My Love

This Austrian city has got it all: rich in culture and history, it is bursting at the seams with art, music and many kinds of architectural delights. Within the city itself, it has not one, but two, major palaces: Belvedere and Schönbrunn, along with half a dozen smaller ones. How many other cities can top … Continue reading Vienna, My Love →