• Heroes Square, Imperial Palace

Vienna’s Must See Tour

This 3-hours walking tour through Vienna’s historic city center gives you a great first impression of what the city has to offer and lets you experience all the most important sites. I just can’t have you visit Vienna and NOT see these places!

We will start our tour at the Albertina Art Palace in which the artloving sister of Marie Antoinette used to live. A beautiful classicist palace!

Marie Antoinette and her sisters were Habsburg princesses and grew up in the Imperial Palace. A huge palace complex for the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Next we see famous Ring Street, built around the old city center, with its stunning public buildings, like the parliament.

A nice warm cup of Viennese coffee or tea is next on the list. I will teach you all about the 100 different Viennese coffee variations and then quiz you about them later on.

We will continue our walk in the historic city center and possibly grab a Figlmüller Wiener Schnitzel to go. Our tour concludes at St. Stephan’s Cathedral.

Languages

German: fluent
French: fluent
English: fluent

  • DURATION

    3 hours

  • MEETING AND END LOCATION

    Meeting location: your hotel or in front of Hotel Sacher

    End location: St. Stephans Cathedral

  • TRANSPORTATION

    Our feet

  • ITINERARY

    Albertina Square
    Imperial Palace
    Graben Street
    Demel Royal Bakery
    Imperial Palace
    Heroes Square
    Ring Street
    St. Stephan’s Cathedral

  • TOUR PRICE

    250 EUR

  • LOCAL CASH NEEDED

    10 EURO – coffee and Sacher cake

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Ratings from previous Guests

Our tour was absolutely excellent, full of varied and interesting information that was carefully selected and prepared. The four hour tour remained stimulating and interesting and was a real highlight of our stay in Vienna. I was taking the tour with my 82 year old mother and Suzanne was thoughtful and considerate making everything as easy for her as possible. I would have no hesitation in recommending Suzanne to anyone wishing to learn about history and art in Vienna.

Not only was the tour wonderful it was especially helpful to have Susanne as a private guide in the museum. She gave us much more understanding of the art, the period and the connections between periods. Susanne was delightful and even gave us some help with a medical problem one of us had. Highest recommendation

Susanne was a wonderful guide to Vienna. She was extremely knowledgeable about art and history (our particular interests), energetic, attentive, helpful and warm. We are very happy she was our guide to this beautiful city!

Jewish history of Vienna is a very delicate topic that many tour guides try to avoid. Susanne does a wonderful job in highlighting this important part of Vienna’s past! She was very knowledgeable and thoughtful. I was visiting Vienna with my young daughter and my goal was to share the history of the city with her while highlighting the impact the Jewish community has made on it over many centuries. Susanne was able to accomplish this goal with excellence. We are very grateful for such wonderful experience

Susan is very positive and has good understanding to The need and interest I have on my visit to Vienna . She is one of the best I can recommend to my friends who Will visit Vienna .

Susanne, our tour guide around Vienna was superb. She was very well informed and delivered an insight in to the history; culture and fascinating sights in a truly professional manner. She was very personable and a delight to be with. We would highly recommend her as your tour guide.

Susanne’s knowledge of the subject matters was excellent and the diversity of the tour (museum, market, highlights along the way) was appreciated. She provided us with follow up material to read or watch on the subject matters we were interested in and we really appreciate her attention to details and our wishes. Of yes, she is very personable and considerate as we ranged in ages from 58 to 80. Highly recommend her!!

Our tours were outstanding with Susanne. She is knowledgeable about history, art, Jewish Heritage etc. It was a real learning experience and Susanne was delightful to be with. We are so pleased and will recommend Toursbylocals and Susanne to friends.

If there would have been a six star rating, Susanne would have deserved it all the way ! She is this very special guide who walks the extra mile with pleasure, like: sending beforehand a whole list of links and ideas (movies, music, Youtube interviews, books, …) so one can prepare for the tour properly/extensively; adding extra hidden gem ideas to improve even thisbr brave tour; informing if her guests returned safely home… She actively involved the youngsters in the tour. She is most recommendable !

BEST DAY of our trip! It started with a scenic drive outside of the city on our way to the picturesque Wachau Valley. After an apricot danish in the town of Krems we saw several other quaint towns, and miles of miles of vineyards on our way to our lunchtime cruise down the Danube River and then ended up in the town of Melk and a tour of the Melk Abbey. Susanne planned a simply perfect day – one we won’t forget for quite some time! This was a 10 star tour!