Vienna News
Czechia: Mass vaccinations to roll out after Christmas
Czech Republic PM Andrej Babiš revealed plans of rolling out vaccinations on December 27 once the vaccines reach the country on December 26. PM Andrej Babiš told this to the media in the wake of ongoi...
Vienna News
Arnold Schwarzenegger joins the campaign for a careful reopening of Hungarian Gyms
Ádám Szedlacskó, one of the owners of Hungary’s largest gyms has filed a petition asking the government for meaningful assistance.
He pointed out how places were burdened with bills amounting...
Vienna News
Ancient Greek Battle helmet of an elite Illyrian warrior found in Croatia
Ancient Greek Battle helmet of an elite Illyrian warrior found next to a 2000-year old rock-cut tomb.
Experts restoring damaged ancient graves stumbled across a tomb belonging to a warrior. Inside wa...
Vienna News
The village of 'Fucking' changes name
The small village of Fucking, in Austria, is happy to change its name with the new year. As from 2021, it will be called Fugging.
A handful of houses in the Austrian countryside, about 30 km from S...
Vienna News
Mountains become accessible to the disabled in Austria and Italy
From the Alps to the Dolomites, the doors to the mountains become accessible for everyone.
The GATE Project is making mountain resorts accessible to the disabled, but also to elderly people and famil...
Vienna News
More restrictions and mass testing in Europe
Vienna aims at mass testing after hard lockdown. In Berlin and Paris the restrictions will last for months
Mass testing and restrictions that will last for months, are projected plans of European g...
Vienna News
Vienna terrorist shooting attack
Four people have lost their lives in a terrorist attack that left a trail of 22 injured including a police officer who is undergoing treatment.
The terrorist attacks were carried out in 6 location...
Vienna News
After a ten weeks closure due to covid-19, the Hotel Sacher in Vienna has reopened its doors.
Tourists or top-class businessmen will now be able to go back to its very elegant rooms, to admire ever...
Vienna News
Austria reopens after lockdown
Austria started closing its borders as early as March 10th due to the burgeoning Covid-19 crisis.
It began with the closure of their land borders with Italy and the restricted entry of Italians unl...
Vienna News
The history behind Sachertorte
Chocolate lovers rejoice… and hop on the fastest flight to Austria to try the world famous Sachertorte. Invented around 1832 by Chef Franz Sacher, it has become a staple dessert for the city of Vienna...
Vienna News
Albertina Modern’s inaugural exhibition in March
Following three years of intensive restoration and modernization, the historical Vienna Künstlerhaus will soon welcome visitors to it’s new tenant - Albertina Modern. The progeny of Albertina Museum,...
Vienna News
World Museum Vienna to open on 25 October
Former Museum of Ethnology will feature artefacts from five continents.The Weltmuseum Wien, formally the Museum of Ethnology, is set to reopen on 25 October as the Weltmuseum Wien (World Museum Vienna...
Vienna News
Ahead of next year's international conference on pedestrian traffic, Walk 21, to be held in Vienna in October 2015 the city has installed it first map (or so-called information pillar) to promote wal...
Vienna News
Vienna has once again installed large mobile drinking fountains throughout the city.
They are connected to the Spring Water Main, which dates back to 1873 and still provides about 40 per cent of th...
Vienna News
Vienna property prices still rising
Property prices in the first quarter of 2014 increased by 8 per cent in Vienna even though Austria’s central bank believes that housing in the capital is over priced by about 22 per cent. In the...
Vienna News
More foreign companies relocate to Vienna
More foreign businesses moved to Vienna in 2013 than in any previous year according to figures released by the city.
133 foreign companies relocated to the city, compared with 110 the previous year...
Vienna News
Vienna offers new 48-hour visitors card
Vienna launches a new 48-hour visitors card on 1 April.
Costing €18.90 it provides free travel on all the city’s public transport, reduced fares from the two airports to the city centre,...
Vienna News
Schőnbrunn zoo reopens after day of ice
Bad weather in Austria closed the Schőnbrunn zoo for the first time in 260 years on 3 February. Dangerous black ice made it impossible to open the zoo grounds to visitors and although most of the...
Vienna News
Unesco for Viennese coffee houses
Selected coffee houses in Vienna will be putting up the Unesco label in November to mark them as part of Austria's intangible cultural heritage.
It is not yet certain which coffee houses will be ab...
Vienna News
Visitors to Vienna’s aquarium (Haus des Meeres) in Esterhazy park can now watch Caribbean hammer sharks, stingrays, and other exotic species in a new 150,000 litre tank at the top of the 50-m Fl...
Vienna News
Vienna's new university campus
Vienna's University of Economics and Business (Wirtschafts Universität Wein or WU) will officially open in its new campus on 4 October.
The new site, known as Campus WU, is in the Prater distr...
Vienna News
Wiener Linien, Vienna's public transport authority, is expanding its services in the autumn. Buses and underground trains will run more frequently during weekdays in off-peak hours. The new frequencie...
Vienna News
Danube Island Festival marks 30 years
The Danube Island Festival celebrates 30 years on 20-23 June with 600 events and 2,000 musicians and entertainers. It is one of Europe’s largest free open-air music festivals and attracts about...
Vienna News
Vienna launches mobile hospice care for kids
Vienna has launched a mobile service to look after severely ill children in their homes.
There about 800 young people in the Vienna area with life-threatening illnesses, about 120 of whom die each...
Vienna News
Vienna Pride in Vienna in June
Vienna Pride comes to Vienna again on 11-16 June. The Pride village on Heldenplatz near the Ringstrasse boulevard will be the usual mix of culture, entertainment, food and information.
The Ra...
Vienna News
Coffee House Conversations in Vienna
Viennese Coffee House Conversations, which start in March, are a new way for locals and tourists to get together and understand the city better.
The meetings will be held in two typical Viennese co...
Vienna News
Vienna’s airport opens Check-in 1
Check-in 1 is set to open at Vienna’s Schwechat international airport mid-January.
Work to remodernise the terminal has taken about six months. New check-in desks have been installed and the...
Vienna News
Albertina museum's anniversary
Vienna’s Albertina museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its re-opening with a series of special events in 2013. In March there will be an exhibition of Dutch prints from the museum&rsqu...
Vienna News
Vienna is getting all excited about naked men since a larger-than-life statue of a naked man was unveiled outside the city’s Leopold Museum in early October as part of an exhibition called nude...
Vienna News
A new luxury hotel, but along the lines of a guesthouse, will make its debut in Vienna in autumn 2013. The concept behind it is to make clients feel as though they are at home or in their own apartmen...
