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It's convenient to feel like you're dreaming in Vienna. It's convenient to be pretentious about everything in Vienna. One way or another, you will find yourself reflecting in this polite city where getting melancholic and feeling happily romantic seem to happen amid the crevices of each breath you take. Here I am experiencing that while in front of the Hundertwasserhaus.
I love Classical Music. Vienna is a wonderful city to feel the inspiration that created some of the most beautiful works of all time. If you walk the streets of Vienna, you'll feel the ghosts of past composers about you humming a motiff of a Piano Concerto or scribbling down the opening passages of a symphony. Vienna, with it's wonderful food, cafes, museums, history, friendly people, and attractions is to me as memorable as any experiences I've had in Europe.
My favorite movie was also filmed in Vienna, Carol Reed's "The Third Man."
All within the encircled District 1 (or known as the Ring; a hexagon of streets that go around the city centre) are amazing cathedrals, shops, tourists sites, museums, and great architectural wonders.
My most enjoyable experience was at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The details of interior design of this museum is breath taking such as this picture of the entrance to the Egytian Exhibits.
The history is amazing in this museum. Not only will you see many great paintings, archaelogical artifacts, but you'll learn where the origin of the term "dollar" came from in the top floor exhibit of the history of currency which was fascinating.
Visit Beethoven at the Zentralfriedhoff (Central Cemetary), the final resting place of over 2 million including famous Classical Composers: Beethoven, Brahms, Schoenberg, Strauss, and Schubert.
Vienna is a quiet city of a crowd of people in deep thought, and warmth, even in the oppressive winter months. You'll find lots of history here and if you're a fan of the movie "The Third Man", walking at night, you'll almost feel that haunting solitude of a Vienna night.
**UPDATE: August 2005**
I'll be going to Vienna for the 3rd time since December 2001. Since then, I've become a greater fan of the movie "the Third Man" and now consider my personal all time favorite movie.
As "The Third Man" was filmed in Vienna, there's tours related to it. I've found a very informative web site that discusses the location sites and offers insightful trivia on the movie. It is here:
- Pros:great food, easy to navigate, great walking city, museums interesting
- Cons:night life not as busy, can be expensive
- In a nutshell:Vienna, you will hear classical music in the air and feel it with the touch of each breeze.
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Hi there! Great pics. Just thought you'd like to know that Heldenplatz means "Heroe's Square" it was in the building behind Heldenplatz that the Anschluss was announced in 1938.
Good start. Hope you will add some more. Looks like my kind of eating place! I feel hungry just looking at the photo.
I am going here in April. It sounds like you had a wonderful visit.