Inside Student BlogsOne Final Glimpse of ViennaVienna, Spring 2012
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- A quick snapshot of the Prater, with figures that date back to its opening in the early 1900s.
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- I’m really going to miss this towering over me everyday…
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- It’s pretty amazing, how you can just sorta stumble onto things like this on your way to class.
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- This is one of my favorite pieces of the Hofburg’s facade.
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- The statues that adorn this facing of the Hofburg are all of Hercules’ trials, and they really serve their purpose of making you feel tiny as you walk through the gates!
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- This statue stands in one of the Hofburg’s gardens, and had a treble clef garden in front of it.
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- Another face of the Hofburg, looking out onto the Burggarten.
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- Franz Joseph’s somber looking statue in the Burggarten.
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- The second tier of the Wien Staatsoper, with the muses looking down on the street.
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- I wandered around the inside of Stephansdom for the last time, and I’ve gotta say it was pretty bittersweet.
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- A view of Vienna from the cafe in the courthouse – which is not crowded in the least and has some wonderful, cheap cake plus a killer view!
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- The judicial building serves as a wonderful example of architecture from the Ringstrassen period.
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- While the view of Vienna’s Parliament is cool in itself, the bottom tier of its fountain offered some of the coolest photos.
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- One of the most controversial monuments to the Vienna is this square dedicated to the Russian soldiers that liberated Vienna from Germany during WWII.
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- While the Strauss monument is always fantastic, the way it’s lit-up at night makes it a must to walk by in the evening.
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- Another glimpse of Stadtpark in the evening.
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- The Upper Belvedere serves as an art museum for permanent exhibits within Vienna.
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- Vienna’s Central Cemetery is beautiful and is the second largest cemetery in Europe with around 3.3 million people laid to rest – including Vienna’s most notable composers who are all buried in the same area.
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- Luckily, before we left the gardens at Schönbrunn were in full bloom – so finally we could see the winter palace in all of its glory!
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- The summer palace of the Hapsburgs had a wonderful garden that you could walk around for hours, and even benches where you could sit and read!
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- The Gloriette is perched on a hill which gives one a magnificent view of not only Schönbrunn but the city of Vienna as well – and this building was also used as a dining hall for the Imperial Family.
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