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VIENNA - INNSBRUCK & SURROUNDINGS - SALZBURG
SOCIETY DANCES (BALLS) - SNOW ACTIVITIES - FAMOUS MUSICIANS

Welcome to Vienna, the capital of Austria, and the beginning of our journey through the history of the
country through its traditions, snow and music. A tour designed to enhance our five senses with which we
will see, hear, dance, taste and enjoy with classic and more active activities.

DAY 1 VIENNA Palace, the Museum of Fine Arts and DAY 3 VIENNA
Arrival and transfer to the hotel. its twin Museum of Natural History, the We will dedicate this day to the most
Parliament, the City Hall or the Votive Viennese traditions, the best examples of
DAY 2 VIENNA Church, among others. We will continue the past adapted to the present.
In the morning we will visit Vienna. with a pleasant walking tour of the We will start the day by discovering the
The Centre of the once great Centre that will take you to St. Stephen’s best kept secret of Austrian gastronomy:
Austro-Hungarian Empire, which Cathedral, the narrow streets of the the “Apfelstrudel”. Of Arab origin, it
extended through Central Europe to Jewish quarter, the house where Mozart came to stay after the Turkish invasions of
the present Ukraine in the north and the lived or the Danube Canal, an area of the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1696 the
Balkan area in the south, Vienna is now street artists. first recipe written in a cookbook of the
a modern city that does not hide its past, We will end the visit with one of the most Austro-Hungarian Empire appears.
combining both legacies to make it the Viennese customs: tasting a Viennese It is from the 18th century when this
meeting point between East and West. coffee accompanied by the famous sweet, from the hand of the Empress
In a tour around the Ringstrasse we Sacher cake. Maria Teresa, becomes the dessert par
will be able to contemplate the most Free afternoon and accommodation in excellence in the salons and cafes of the
outstanding buildings of the city, such Vienna. city, reaching our days as the national
as the Opera, the Hofburg or Winter cake of Austria.
We prepare to tie our aprons in a kitchen
workshop to learn how to handle the fine
puff pastry, which is filled with apples
and raisins, with touches of sugar and
cinnamon, cooked in the oven.
It is usually served with cream and hot
vanilla-flavored cream or vanilla ice cream
Vienna in summer.
Afterwards we will change the stage and
go to a dance school where we will
learn to waltz.
Salzburg A dance of peasant origin in the areas
of Tyrol and Bavaria, its name is derived
Innsbruck AUSTRIA from the German verb “Walzen”, which
means “to go round”. The name “Waltz”
appears for the first time in 1781 in the
work “Eberhard der Greiner” by Friedrich
Schiller.
Successive variations popularize this
dance among the people, but it is not

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