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Vienna City Center Tour

This morning there was a walking tour of Vienna city center with a local guide.

The tour started near toe Habsburg palace area. One of the two fountains at the entrance.

Power at Sea fountain
Power at Sea fountain

A decorative grill in the Habsburg palace by the entrance to the Sisi museum.

Grill
Grill

We passed by the Spanish riding school and the Lipizzaner Stallions.

Lipizzaner Stallions
Lipizzaner Stallions

Vienna suffered during the Great Plague epidemic of 1679. There is a plague column in Grabenplatz.

Plague Column
Plague Column

We walked by the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church which stands out on the narrow street. We didn’t go in.

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

One of the narrower streets in Vienna, Hafnersteig, which leads to a meat market that started in the 1200s.

Hafnersteig
Hafnersteig

The tour ended outside St. Stephen’s Cathedral, there was some time to go in and look around before catching the bus back to the ship for lunch.

St. Stephen’s Cathedral
St. Stephen’s Cathedral

South Tower
South Tower

The choir was practicing with the organ. Peter Baldinger had a temporary art installation in the sanctuary called “Sky of Stones”.

Organ
Organ

We rode the bus back to the ship for lunch and went back to the city to see the Treasury Museum after lunch. Marty Sherman, who ate lunch with us came along.

We saw the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Emperor which includes a vestment made in 1134 and Otto I’s crown made in the 900’s.