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These tickets go on sale 60 minutes before each show at the front door and 80 minutes before the show inside the side door at the Standing Room ( Stehplätze) booth which always has a short line. Standing Room tickets are cheap, 2€ upstairs and 3.50€ downstairs, and allow you to easily leave when you’ve had your fill. Ticket Tip: If a show is sold out or if you just want a taste of a show without sitting through a 3-hour opera or ballet, they sell 567 standing room tickets the day of each performance, 160 of these tickets are right below the Emperor’s Box. Live Performances: Tickets range from 16-215€, can be bought online, and go fast. Tour is great and brings you to a lot of backstage areas. Guided Tours: 9€ for Adults 4€ for kids also includes the Opera Museum 1-6 tours daily ( check website). Will will revisit the Ring Road at the end of this walking tour. The building of the opera house was part of a larger protect in the mid-1800s where the Emperor replaced Vienna’s Medieval moated wall with grand buildings and a modern boulevard known as the Ringstrasse. It was in Vienna where the Waltz was born and where Mozart wrote his famous opera The Marriage of Figaro.

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This monument to music is the perfect place to start our free Vienna walking tour as the arts have been such an important part of the city’s culture and history. If you are looking to catch a show, you can expect to choose from famous operas, ballets, and can even take part in large Viennese Balls each February. The beautiful theater and grand common areas make touring the Opera House amazing. Opened in 1863, this gorgeous 1200 seat theater has housed some of Austria’s most famous classical musicians and still hosts over 300 performances a year. While losing two World Wars greatly stunted city’s 200 years of booming progress, a modern second coming has made the historic Old Town Vienna a world class place to visit once again.Ībout The State Opera House: In a city famous for music and the arts, it is the grand Vienna State Opera House ( Staatsoper), that definitely takes the prize. During this transformation, the Austrian Empire and Kingdom of Hungarian were merged and Vienna’s population quickly grew. The Waltz and Viennese Balls were born here and Vienna’s city center became home to musicians such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Strauss.Įmperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elizabeth ( Sisi) made the biggest changes to modernize Vienna in the 1800s replacing the Medieval wall with the Ringstrasse Boulevard, fixing up nearby palaces, and tearing down homes in the Old Town to make way for new grand buildings. Vienna truly blossomed into one of the cultural hubs of Europe during the 18th & 19th centuries through the arts, classical music, and opera. Under the rule of the Babenbergs and the Habsburg Dynasty ( 1153-1918), Vienna’s Old Town wall expanded outward and the city even became the seat of the Holy Roman Empire for over 300 years ( 1483–1806). Shortly after, in 881, Vindobona took the name Vienna ( Wein) after the Vienna River ( Weinfluss) which is Celtic for Wood Creek. The old Roman camp was refortified including a small castle Berghof Restsiedlung built in 800AD over the thermal baths to help defend against Magyar ( Hungarian) armies. By 433AD most of the Northen Roman Empire had fallen apart, the soldiers withdrew, the remaining citizens around Vindobona moved inside the walls of the abandoned camp. This broke down the Limes Road connecting the Roman camps along the Danube and the large regional capital of Carnuntum was sacked by Germanic tribes ( Goths) in 395AD. The Hun armies crossed the Volga River into Europe in 370AD and invaded as far west into the Roman region as Castra Constantias ( modern-day Budapest). On this free Vienna walking tour, we will see some of the original Roman ruins, follow the outlines ancient camp’s wall, and give you a better understanding of early day Vienna.Īt its peak, Vindobona had 6,000 legionary soldiers in its walled fort and 24,000 civilians in the surrounding suburban area, but was much smaller than the 50,000-person regional capital of Carnuntum.

While mentioned in the movie Gladiator, Vindobona was where the real-life Emperor Marcus Aurelius died in 180AD. The Roman fort, called Vindobona ( meaning White Village) took up about 1/3 the area of today’s Old Town. The area grew thanks to the Romans who arrived in 15AD and built a walled military fort in 97AD to ward off Germanic forces. Settlement of Old Town Vienna began with Celtic tribes in 500BC with a riverfront camp called Castrum.

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