The former summer residence of many a Hapsburg ruler, Schonbrunn Palace, remains one of Vienna’s top tourist attractions. It’s not hard to see why. First used as hunting grounds, the current palace was begun in 1697 and completed in 1749. It’s an enormous building with two giant wings and a prominent entrance done in a […]

The name Lainzer Tiergarten is mildly misleading. There are indeed deer to be found in this wooded nature preserve on the western edge of Vienna. But it’s not a garden as we traditionally think of it and there is so much more than deer here. Tucked in a small area at the foothills of the […]