Visit Vienna in 3 days : itinerary and tips
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Visiting Vienna in three days? That’s to say a long weekend, the time that often we have to visit a new city, and that’s the time I’ve spent in Vienna… even if I have to tell you that it would take more time for visiting well this beautiful city, and the selection of things to see has been really hard!
I’m sharing with you here the program we have followed in our three days, even if I think that the choice of what to see or not is something very personal.. but it’s a selection that has necessarily to be made in a large capital city like Vienna, which boasts a number of museums that has nothing to envy to many other European cities. I personally love contemporary art and architecture, that’s why I’ve given some space to those sides of the city that perhaps a more classical tour of the city does not consider…
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Vienna is so perfect, clean and tidy, and so lavish in its architecture, than at very first sight hasn’t met my tastes, wich are oriented to more informal and “colored”places… So many plaster decor here in Vienna, so few exposed brick walls... and the pink dog at the beginning was quite lost. But during this long weekend in Vienna, the city has been able to seduce me with its Christmas lights, with the works of so many artists, with a colorful market, with a huge area dedicated to museums.
Here is my selection of photos and places that I have visited in Vienna in three days,
I hope it can be a useful starting point for your visit as well!
Visit Vienna in 3 days
itinerary and tips
Day1
We got lost a little bit through the streets, before entering in the Stephandsom Cathedral (only a small part of the huge interior was open to the public).
For our first beer here in Vienna we chose a place with an amazing panoramic view towards Stephandsom (5), the Sky Bar : located on the top floor of Steffl mall (maybe just avoid taking the elevator on the front, glass, if you suffer from vertigo!)… I would say, definetely not bad 🙂
For dinner, we headed to the Northern part of the Innere Stadt district, which is full of bars and restaurants, and of hidden courtyards... here by chance we found a small restaurant, EF16, which I recommend for food and service (6).
Visit Vienna in 3 days : itinerary and tips
Day2
Day 2 part 1a
We decide to visit the Albertina first (and it has been a good idea to start with it earlier in the morning, that’s what we thought while observing the row for tickets when we left), attracted by Mirò exhibition. We enjoied it, it’s a good compromise between a contemporary art museum and an imperial era palace (1,2).
Then, we head towards the Hofburg, the symbol of the Habsburg power and of the imperial Vienna…(3) but actually we only saw it from outside (that’s the selection I talked about at the beginning, we decided not to visit the interior… even if now I’m a little a bit regretted that we haven’t visited the Kaiserappartments)…
The whole area is beautiful (just a little bit of horses smell, the only snag), from Michaelerplatz (where you have to admire the Looshaus (4), that’s to say the manifest of Adolf Loos war against the ornaments of that time), to the Graben, the first pedestrian street in the center of Vienna (you can find Loos here as well, in his beautiful public toilets builted in far 1905).
We went for a quick lunch then in a typical hot dog stand right in front of the Albertina, the Bitzinger Wurstelstand (5), then had some rest and an hot coffee under the palm trees at the Palmenhaus (that I’ve already shown you few days ago)…
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day 2 part 2
