Vienna

The city of Vienna was very beautiful, there’s a lot of old houses and museums.

St. Stephen’s Cathedral

The cathedral was very big, beautiful and old. The tour was very nice and interesting however it was a bit too long. The cathedral’s basement was very big and there was a lot of skeletons and dead peoples. The cathedral was catholic and has been standing for many years.

The “Kunsthistorisches Museum”  

The museum was very big and there was a lot of ancient relics and coins stored there. The most part was the Egyptian part, but the rest was very weird. In the museum there was a very cold room with many old pictures, and it was weird that the room was so cold. It was very interesting but also weird.

Leopold Museum

The gallery was very interesting and very beautiful the art included. The artwork was very old and inspiring and the pictures were very expensive. Most of the people in the artworks were naked which was pretty weird.

Report Vienna 17-01-2019

Laia (Basque Country), Szymon (Poland), Patrick (Austria), Hanna (Sweden) and Manon (Netherlands)

Yesterday we went to Vienna. The bus left at 7:30 and we arrived in Vienna at 10:45. First we went to the cathedral of St. Stephen´s. Here we got a guided tour about the cathedral. We went inside, underneath and on top of the cathedral. The guide told us about the history of the cathedral. It was very interesting to learn something about the Austrian History.

We all thought that the cathedral was very interesting and beautiful. We were also very surprised about the size of the cathedral. We also thought that the details in the cathedral were very beautiful and we were impressed about the amount of time they invested in making these beautiful sculptures and paintings. Because the cathedral was so big, we were wondering how they were able to build this large building during the 12^th century.

Underneath the cathedral were the catacombs, all the dead bodies gave us a very scared and disgusted feeling. After a lot of stairs we were on top of the cathedral and we had a nice view of Vienna.

After the cathedral we had a typical Austrian lunch, we ate Wiener schnitzel and had some drinks. It was a lovely restaurant and the food was really nice.

Kunsthistorisches Museum and Leopold museum

Yesterday we started our tour to museums at 2 p.m. First we divided on two smaller groups, one went to the Kunsthistorisches museum and the other group to the Leopold museum.

The Kunsthistorisches museum is about history and not only about Austrian history. The museum is located in the middle of the city and at the other side there is the Naturhistorisches museum. When we entered we first went to the cloakroom and from there we went to the first exhibition and it was about Rome and Greece. There were many old stuff, like sculptors of many important persons in this age. After that we went to the next room, where we saw a lot of ancient art, for example on vases. From the Greek and Rome exhibition we went to the Egypt stuff. There we many old things, but the most interesting for most people was to saw the mummys and the sculptures of Egypt gods like Sekhmet. It was also interesting to see all the paintings from all world, the most was about Kings and royal families.

After that attractions we went to the Leopold museum, which is located on the other side of the road. One of the main attraction was the collection of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele art. There were a lot of interesting modern paintings of different things like humans bodies.

 During the drive to the centre of Vienna we got to see a lot of beautiful architecture of the city. We loved our day in Vienna and we would love to visit the capital of Austria again.  If we are visiting Vienna again in the future, we would like to have some more time to visit other great highlights of the city.

VIENNA, VIENA, WIEN, WENEN, WIEDEN

After 3 hours of bus and many exciting feelings, we finally arrived in Vienna. The whole group stopped at Saint Stephen’s cathedral where we followed a scary tour. This took us through the catacombs. Inside the catacombs there was a big room filled with urns. We were told that inside the urns there were some human organs mixed with alcohol. Besides the scary urns, there were many mass graves. These were small spaces filled up completely with human remains. We also went to the inside storage of the cathedral which was very high up. From there we could see a view of whole Vienna, which really amazed us.

When we finished the tour, we walked to Wienerwald, where we ate a typical Austrian dish called Wiener schnitzel. While we were going to the restaurant we saw the centre of Vienna, which was full of shops, but we did not have enough time to see it because we were walking so fast (we were in a hurry sadly). Talking about the food, we thought almost all of us thought it was nice but some of us did not like it.

The art museum, Leopold museum, was a little bit boring because most students didn’t like the type of art in that museum. The paintings were surreal and most of us don’t like the style. Besides, the amount of paintings was quite limited. The other museum’s architecture was very beautiful and we were completely amazed by it. The Egyptian’s exposition was really interesting since you got to see the coffins where the mummies were kept.  In addition, we saw some statues that were really interesting for us because of how they were made.

To sum up, we really enjoyed our day in Vienna, but the truth is that we would have liked sightseeing the city as it was our first time here and going into two museums was kind of waste of money and time. As a tip for next time, give the students more spare time to explore the city themselves.

Ane (Basque Country), Tuva (Sweden), Christiaan (Netherlands), Tobias (Austria) and Julka (Poland)

Vienna

The trip:

We went to Vienna by bus. We drove approximately for 3 hours. We thought the journey was a bit too long, especially when you compare it to the time we had in Vienna. So maybe it would have been better to go by train.

The cathedral:

We first visited cathedral. We thought it was beautiful but a bit boring to spend so much time in there. We didn´t think the ´trip´ to the catacombs was necessary because we´re not really into dead people. After we visited the catacombs we climbed upstairs to go to the roof. Once we were there we thought it was beautiful but we didn´t like to climb the spiral stairs.

The lunch:

After we visited the cathedral we had to walk for 20 minutes to the place where we were about to lunch. We ate the Austrian Winerschnitzel mit Pommes (fries). But we thought it would have been better to just split up and lunch by ourselves because eating in the restaurant took a long time and we would have liked to have more time to explore Vienna. The Schnitzel was good though.

The museums:

We first visited the Leopold museum. We liked it because the art was really beautiful and interesting. Secondly we visited the Kunsthistoristorisches Museum. It was okay but we think visiting the first museum would have been enough.  

Free time:

Marta:

I went to some shops and I bought some souvenirs but I really think that we could have had more free time because we wanted to do more sightseeing.

Maaike:

I went to the Schmetterlingshaus with my teachers and the other people from the Netherlands. We had some coffee and ate a Topfenstrudel. But we had too little time to really see Vienna. It would have been nice to have more time so we could go sightseeing or by souvenirs.

Our opinion:

We both really liked Vienna and thought it was beautiful and we want to come back because we didn´t see everything we wanted to see.