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AUSTRIA & SISSI

(Vienna - Bad Ischl - Salzburg - Munich)

DAY 1 VIENNA We will finish the visit in a typical Viennese Heiligenkreuz Abbey, founded in 1133
Arrival in Vienna and meeting with the café enjoying a coffee and the famous by Leopold III for the Cistercian order
guide. Transfer to the hotel and check in. Sacher Cake. and the second oldest in the world to be
In the evening, we will enjoy a welcome uninterruptedly occupied.
dinner at a local restaurant in the city, DAY 3 VIENNA Sissi’s life was portrayed in three films
“Wiener Rathauskeller” or similar, where Today we continue our visit following in starring the Viennese actress Romy
we will enjoy a typical Viennese menu. the footsteps of Sissi in Vienna. Schneider. One of the scenes was filmed
It will take us to Schönbrunn Palace, the at Heiligenkreuz Abbey, namely the
DIA 2 VIENNA summer residence of the imperial family, meeting of Sissi with her mother Ludovica
In the morning we will discover the city on and the Carriage Museum, where we can and her sister Nene with Archduchess
a panoramic tour around the Ringstrasse, see the wedding carriage, among others. Sofia.
Vienna’s main boulevard, passing the On the way back to the city we will visit Our next stop will be Mayerling, to visit
Hofburg Palace, the State Opera, the the Capuchin Church, in whose crypt the Carmelite convent, formerly the
twin museums of Fine Arts and History of she is buried together with her husband, hunting lodge of the imperial family and
Natural Sciences, the Parliament and the Emperor Franz Joseph and her son where sadly Crown Prince Rudolf took his
City Hall, the Votive Church, St. Charles Rudolf. life with his mistress Mary Vetsera.
Church, the Musikverein where the New Free afternoon. Continue to Dürnstein, located on
Year’s Concert is broadcast and the In the evening, we will enjoy a Viennese the banks of the Danube River and
monument to Johann Strauss, father of evening at a concert with the most surrounded by vineyards and historical
the waltz. Then we will visit the Hofburg, famous musical pieces by Mozart and cultural monuments. We will have free
the winter palace of the imperial family Strauss, two of the city’s bestknown time to stroll through the narrow streets of
that also houses the Sissi Museum, residents. this charming town before continuing on
which displays personal items of the to Melk, where we will visit the impressive
empress. DAY 4 VIENNA – VIENNA WOODS Benedictine Abbey, the finest example of
On the way out we will visit the – DANUBE’S VALLEY – BAD ISCHL Baroque architecture in Austria.
Augustinian Church, where the wedding We start the tour heading to the The landscape of the Danube Valley is
took place. Vienna Woods, where we will visit the also present in the life of the imperial
family and Sissi, where they used to go in
summer, as well as being the setting for
GERMANY the aforementioned films.
We will continue the journey to Bad Ischl,
Munich in the heart of the Lake and Mountain
Danube’s Valley District, known under the name of
Salzkammergut.
Starnberger See Vienna DAY 5 BAD ISCHL – HALLSTATT/
Salzkammergut
Bad Ischl SALZKAMMERGUT – SALZBURG
Salzburg Hallstatt Today we will follow in the footsteps
of the imperial family by visiting
the Kaiservilla, the wedding gift of
AUSTRIA Archduchess Sophie to her son, Emperor
Franz Joseph, at his wedding to Princess
Elisabeth of Bavaria, better known as
Empress Sissi.
It was in Bad Ischl that Franz Joseph

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