A Walk Through One of the Most Interesting Viennese Graetzels
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A Walk Through One of the Most Interesting Viennese Graetzels

The key difference between small cities and large cities resembles the difference between a single song and an album collection. Nice in the south of France is an excellent example for the single: attractive and catchy, but essentially a play on one motive or melody. Paris, conversely, unites a wide range of different themes: luxurious…

Tracing the Paths of Hitler and Stalin in Vienna
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Tracing the Paths of Hitler and Stalin in Vienna

Did they meet? That is always the question when we read about two famous people who were sharing some sort of geographical proximity at one time or another. Adolf Hitler and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (“the limits of my language are the limits of my world”) went to the same school in Linz. Anton Czekhov…

Vienna Walk with Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, et al
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Vienna Walk with Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, et al

In this week’s trip around Vienna City of Music, we shall leave the Austrian capital’s city centre and stay on its periphery before we branch out, encountering different faces of residential Vienna. As always on these city walks, you should keep your eyes open – there is much to discover. All large cities – not…

Waltzing Through the Streets of Vienna City of Music
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Waltzing Through the Streets of Vienna City of Music

If Paris is the City of Light, then Vienna must be the City of Music. Every day, the Austrian capital hosts music performances for 10,000 people – and a grand total of 15,000 musical events per year. But Vienna is the City of Music in another way, too. There is no other place on earth…

Our Blue Danube Intermezzo with More Lies About Vienna
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Our Blue Danube Intermezzo with More Lies About Vienna

The whole of Vienna is built on a foundation of lies: The Danube does not really flow through the city (and is neither beautiful or even blue) ; Vienna’s Imperial splendour belies the reality of being the capital of a small-ish country in Eastern Central Europe; a good portion of her much famed architecture is…