Day 1 – 4

Grand Ferdinand Hotel

A sympathetically restored landmark building, the Grand Ferdinand offers a fabulous contemporary design with historic flourishes. Crisp white furnishings with marble and hints of brass in the bathrooms offer luxurious room options for a relaxing oasis you look forward to returning to after a day of treats in the renowned Austrian City. Also showcasing a fantastic rooftop infinity pool and terrace restaurant where you can savour delicious cuisine with a stunning view. The location is the cherry on top, with the City Park and Vienna State Opera only a short walk away.

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Vienna

The city’s cultural heritage is mainly musical, with great composers such as Strauss, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn and Mozart all living and performing here. Today, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the State Opera House help keep the city’s traditions alive by offering more classical music performances a year than any other city worldwide.

While Vienna is a city of music, it’s also synonymous with gourmet fare, cream cakes, superb coffee, the angelic strains of the Vienna Boys’ Choir, and the proud prancing of the Lipizzaner stallions at the world-famous Spanish Riding School.

Starting as a Celtic settlement on the banks of the Danube, Vienna became one of Rome’s most important central European bases. Its favourable location on the strategic river contributed to the city becoming the stronghold of a mighty empire, reaching its peak during the tumultuous reign of the dazzling Habsburg dynasty.

At the end of the 19th century, the golden age of the Austrian Empire began to decline as Vienna’s coffee houses filled with radical intellectuals such as Freud, Klimt and Mahler. The World War II Nazi occupation left scars, but Vienna survived to remain a captivating capital that blends Italian romanticism with Germanic orderliness.

Most of the city’s tourist attractions are within the largely pedestrianised inner city area, once enclosed by the city walls. The walls have been replaced with the Ringstrasse, a vast ring road. Further out in the suburbs is the thrilling Prater amusement park with its massive Ferris wheel and the opulent Schonbrunn summer palace. Visitors also should not miss a trip to the Vienna Woods, peppered with wine taverns called heurigen.

Vienna is a paradise for classical music lovers, with unrivalled history, influence and majesty. But it’s also a city of sophistication and class, a romantic outpost of old-world grandeur shining through the heritage of imperial power.

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