Guten Tag! May 2015, Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna. Habsburg Monarchy's (1500-1900) summer palace. I was seven years and five months.
Palaces and Schnitzels in Vienna
PARKS, SCUPTURES, MUSEUMS AND A HORSE CART TOUR
ARRIVED. Vienna Airport. Flight from Helsinki took about 2 hours.
ARRIVED. Vienna Airport, train station, to Vienna city 20 mins.
- We started with Georg Rafael Donner (1693-1742), he was a sculptor
• Goethe (1749-1832) was a German writer (Faust) and statesman
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) at the Burggarten
• Gold-plated Johan Strauss (1825–1899) at the Stadtpark
• Also there: Franz Schubert, Franz Lehár, Robert Stolz
- The Blue Danube feelings at Strauss Monument
- If BaBa gets a sculpture, we name it No Hesitation!
• Monument of Empress Maria Theresia, mother of Marie Antoinette
• Vienna style green sculptures
- Enough of sculptures, baboons want more!
• Schönbrunn Palace was the imperial summer palace
• Habsburg Monarchy, about 300 years old, 1441 rooms
- My right (hand): English Garden, Small Gloriette, hunting forests
- My left: Privy Garden, Palm House, guesthouse, zoo
- My back: Neptune Fountain and Gloriette on Schönbrunn Hill
• Great Parterre is the space between Palace and Gloriette (behind)
• Baroque gardens were an expression of ruler's status
• Neptune Fountain 'the crowning element of the Great Parterre'
• Sculpted garden between the Palace and the Neptune Fountain
- DanDan was the strongest when we walked up to Gloriette
- MaMa got the opportunity to dream about palace life...
• Gloriette, built in 1775, now café and observation deck
• Gloriette comes from French 'gloire' meaning 'a little room
• Schönbrunn Palace has 2-3 million visitors every year
• Schönbrunn means 'beautiful spring'
• Neptune Fountain decorations
- DanDan stayed focused during his research
• Corridor is part of geometric Privy Garden
• Palm House, built in 1883 for exotic plants
- By train we saw English Garden and octagonal Small Gloriette
- Enough of Schönbrunn, we returned to Vienna city
- My first horse cart tour happened in Vienna
- We got two white horses with a red carriage
- Horse cart tour was my best experience in Vienna
- After the Horse Cart Tour lady-driver took this photo
- Our tour went on small streets in city center
- After horse cart tour I met these Eurovision singers
• City Tour by Truck
- Around Vienna of the Habsburgs: done
• Two-headed eagle of Hofburg Palace, home of Habsburg Monarchy
• Two-headed eagle with 6 meters wingspan on old War Ministry
• Front, statue of Marshal Josef Graf Radetzky von Radetz
- We visited inside Vienna State Opera, open since 1869
• The Soviet War Memorial
• The Soviet War Memorial aka Heroes' Monument of the Red Army
- The Doors, they say 'Break On Through to the other side'
- Taller! It seems we got quite enough of the Walk Tour
• Kunsthistorisches Museum aka Museum of Art History
- Lobby, then impressive steps up
- Listening art stories with museum's multimedia device
• Frederick III ‘the Fair’ (1229-1330)
• Aquamanile, a water pitcher from twelfth century
• Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection hall
• Egyptian Collection mummies and sarcophagus
• Behind, the sarcophagus of Nes-Shu-Tefnut
• Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection
- Compared to yours my toes are __________________ (fill in)
• Egyptian seated Sekhmets, protectors of the pharaohs
- Collection of some old objects
• Painting of Emperor Rudolf II c.1600
• Left: Habsburg Archduchess Marie Antoinette of Austria
• Right: King Louis XVI, Louis Auguste de France
• 1770 two crowns wedding, 1793 guillotine for both
- Joy of the sofa and paintings
- Reworking a painting is a silent process
• A painting by Luca Giordano (1664)
- Egyptian Collections were the best in this museum
FLIGHTS. Helsinki Airport
FLIGHTS. Helsinki Airport. Finnair flights Helsinki - Vienna - Helsinki
FLIGHTS. Vienna Airport near Gate 41
HOTEL. Hotel am Konzerthaus, room 212
• Hotel is near Vienna Konzerthaus at city center
• In Vienna Konzerthaus we had drinks in staff canteen
HOTEL. Hotel am Konzerthaus
• Breakfast: salmon, bacon, sausages, dried ham, eggs, cheeses, fruits
• Breakfast: croissants, juices, coffee, hot milk, hot/cold cakes, etc
DINNER No.1 Restaurant Brauerei Salm Bräu, open since 1516
DINNER No.1 Restaurant Brauerei Salm Bräu
- Wiener Schnitzels of veal & pork ribs with beer
- Good atmosphere and service
DINNER No.2 Restaurant Plachutta Wollzeile, open since 1987
DINNER No.2 Restaurant Plachutta Wollzeile
- Tafelspitz which is steamed beef with horseradish
- Quality arrangement, good foggy unfiltered beer
DINNER No.3 Restaurant Zum Figlmüller, open since 1905
- Zum Figlmüller is famous for Schnitzels (Schweineschnitzel)
DINNER No.3 Restaurant Zum Figlmüller
- Excellent Schnitzels with lemon and salad
- BaBa and MaMa had Grüner Veltliner white wine
VIENNA DINNERS
DINNER No.1 Salm Bräu's Wiener Schnitzels made of veal
DINNER No.2 Plachutta's Tafelspitz, steamed beef in copper kettles
DINNER No.3 Zum Figlmüller's Schnitzels (above) made of pork
VIENNA WALK
- Excellent city, walk streets, parks, sights
- Vienna Star No.87 Dmitri Shostakovich
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