2 Great Vienna Tours

Each of the individual tours are available to purchase separately at LoDingo. However by choosing the 2 Great Vienna Audio Tour you will SAVE $5.00

Download walking tours of Vienna onto your iPod, mp3 player or phone. As you wander through the streets along the route we've planned for you let our city guides tell you where to go and what to look out for.

Vienna Imperial

We'll describe and explain the history of the city's grandest buildings:
    •    The scandalous Secession
    •    the new Albertina
    •    Spanish Riding School
    •    the story of the Hofburg
    •    Beethoven's house
    •    Burgtheater
    •    Rathaus
    •    the great museums.

As we take in the magnificent baroque Karlskirche we'll tell you why it was built.  Moving on to the neighbouring Secession building, you'll hear about the Jugenstil movement and why it shocked contemporary Vienna including the Emperor Franz Josef.
 
We'll tell you about the history of this city which lies at the cross roads of Europe and recount the witty but tragic comment that Sigmund Freud made to the Nazis as they arrested him.
 
As we show you the city's great art galleries and churches, we'll point out the art school which rejected an applicant called Adolf Hitler and explain the meaning of 'Strum un Strang'.  We'll help you get your bearings around the vast Hofburg Palace complex and tell you about the tragic Empress Sissy.
 
Most importantly, we'll point out the best of Vienna's coffee houses along the way - including Trotsky's favourite.

Vienna Medieval

Let us show you Vienna's oldest parts and their remarkable history:
    •    The Opera
    •    Mozart's house
    •    St Stephan's Cathedral
    •    Fleischmarkt
    •    Hohermarkt
    •    Peterskirche
    •    Graben
    •    Am Hof
    •    the moving Judenplatz
    •    Freyung
    •    the best cafes

We start by the celebrated Opera House and the Sacher Hotel, home of the even more celebrated Sachertorte chocolate cake and then we'll lead you past some of Vienna's most remarkable and beautiful churches.
 
We'll show you where Mozart wrote The Magic Flute and explain why it possibly cost him his life.  You'll visit the grand cathedral, the Stephansdom, and learn the meaning of the mysterious '05' which is carved into its walls.
 
As we guide you through the picturesque winding streets of the old town we'll tell the story of the tragic Mayerling affair and show you how to find the Roman ruins in Vienna's oldest square, the Hoher Markt.  
 
We'll explain what 'schmah' is and take you to the Judensplatz where you'll hear about the moving but controversial new monument to Vienna's Holocaust victims before we show you the world's most luxurious fire station.

Simon Brooke is an award winning journalist and travel writer who has written for The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and The Times amongst others. He is the author of two novels.

Each of the individual tours are available to purchase separately at LoDingo. However by choosing the 2 Great Vienna Audio Tour you will SAVE $5.00

Download walking tours of Vienna onto your iPod, mp3 player or phone. As you wander through the streets along the route we've planned for you let our city guides tell you where to go and what to look out for.

Vienna Imperial

We'll describe and explain the history of the city's grandest buildings:
    •    The scandalous Secession
    •    the new Albertina
    •    Spanish Riding School
    •    the story of the Hofburg
    •    Beethoven's house
    •    Burgtheater
    •    Rathaus
    •    the great museums.

As we take in the magnificent baroque Karlskirche we'll tell you why it was built.  Moving on to the neighbouring Secession building, you'll hear about the Jugenstil movement and why it shocked contemporary Vienna including the Emperor Franz Josef.
 
We'll tell you about the history of this city which lies at the cross roads of Europe and recount the witty but tragic comment that Sigmund Freud made to the Nazis as they arrested him.
 
As we show you the city's great art galleries and churches, we'll point out the art school which rejected an applicant called Adolf Hitler and explain the meaning of 'Strum un Strang'.  We'll help you get your bearings around the vast Hofburg Palace complex and tell you about the tragic Empress Sissy.
 
Most importantly, we'll point out the best of Vienna's coffee houses along the way - including Trotsky's favourite.

Vienna Medieval

Let us show you Vienna's oldest parts and their remarkable history:
    •    The Opera
    •    Mozart's house
    •    St Stephan's Cathedral
    •    Fleischmarkt
    •    Hohermarkt
    •    Peterskirche
    •    Graben
    •    Am Hof
    •    the moving Judenplatz
    •    Freyung
    •    the best cafes

We start by the celebrated Opera House and the Sacher Hotel, home of the even more celebrated Sachertorte chocolate cake and then we'll lead you past some of Vienna's most remarkable and beautiful churches.
 
We'll show you where Mozart wrote The Magic Flute and explain why it possibly cost him his life.  You'll visit the grand cathedral, the Stephansdom, and learn the meaning of the mysterious '05' which is carved into its walls.
 
As we guide you through the picturesque winding streets of the old town we'll tell the story of the tragic Mayerling affair and show you how to find the Roman ruins in Vienna's oldest square, the Hoher Markt.  
 
We'll explain what 'schmah' is and take you to the Judensplatz where you'll hear about the moving but controversial new monument to Vienna's Holocaust victims before we show you the world's most luxurious fire station.

Simon Brooke is an award winning journalist and travel writer who has written for The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and The Times amongst others. He is the author of two novels.