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VIENNESE WALTZ

Discover Vienna on ¾ Takt

DAY 1 VIENNA We will end the visit on a panoramic bus ball season (January - February).
Arrival in Vienna and meeting with the tour around the Ringstrasse, Vienna’s In the evening, we will attend a concert
guide. Transfer to the hotel and check in. main boulevard, passing the State Opera with the most famous musical pieces
In the evening, we will enjoy a welcome House, the Hofburg, the twin museums of of Mozart and Strauss, two of the most
dinner at a local restaurant in the city, Fine Arts and History of Natural Sciences, famous residents of the city.
“Durchhaus” or “Huth”, where we will the Parliament and City Hall, the Votive NOTE: during the dancing season, the
enjoy a typical Viennese menu. Church and St. Charles Church. Free concert will be replaced by attending
afternoon. one of the dances.
DAY 2 VIENNESE BLOOD
Today’s tour takes us to discover the city DAY 3 WALTZER & QUADRILLES DAY 4 THE BLUE DANUBE WALTZ
of Vienna in the footsteps of the Strauss After breakfast we will continue our Today’s visit takes us to see the
family, the great composers of the waltz. discovering tour into the world of the protagonist landscape of the most
We will start our tour with a visit to the Viennese activity par excellence - the famous
family apartment of Johann Strauss, the waltz. In one of the many dance schools waltz, “The Blue Danube”, composed
waltz king, where we will be able to see in the city we will take a waltz course and in autumn/winter 1866-1867 by Johann
several of his personal utensils and sheet learn about the history of this dance, from Strauss Jr. at the request of the Viennese
music. Then we will go to the Stadtpark, its peasant origins in the Tyrol and Bavaria Association of Male Choirs, who asked
where stands the statue dedicated to to the aristocratic dance we know today. him to write a waltz for the choir. It was
Johann Strauss, and the Musikverein Afterwards we will enjoy a short break in a premiered on February 13, 1867, to
building, where the New Year’s Concert is coffee shop, with coffee and the famous lukewarm applause. It was its
broadcast. Sacher cake, and then we will go to the performance at the Paris Universal
We continue our visit at the Strauss Opera House to visit the stage of the ball Exposition in the same year that brought
Museum, where we will learn all about of balls - The Opera Ball, in which the it the success and popularity it enjoys
the life of this family and the history of the debutantes are presented every year in today.
waltz in its historical context. the society and marks the climax of the Our excursion will take us to the Danube
Valley, stopping at Dürnstein, where we
will embark on a boat ride on the river to
Melk to visit the imposing baroque abbey,
which dominates the valley and the view
over the river from the top of the hill.
Return to Vienna and rest of the day at
Vienna leisure.
DAY 5 THE EMPEROR WALTZ
Composed in 1889 by Johann Strauss
Jr., it refers to the alliance between the
AUSTRIA German Empire under Emperor Wilhelm
II and the Austro-Hungarian Empire
under Emperor Franz Joseph I. Within
the framework of this waltz we will
visit the most outstanding palaces of
Vienna - Hofburg, winter residence and
Schönbrunn, summer palace.
Afternoon at leisure.

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