Come with me! Tour guide Michael
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Join me on a unique tour to the Schönbrunn Palace Park and let’s enjoy together the most beautiful baroque garden in Austria […]
Follow me on a moving tour through a green oasis, the beginning of the Alps in the middle of Vienna and lets feel the vibrant athmospher! […]
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The Julius Meinl house (Meinlhaus) in the inner city at Fleischmarkt 7 was built in 1899 as a trading house for Julius Meinl based on a design by Max Kropf. The building, with its plaster façade and neoclassical décor by Wilhelm Hejda, features stucco reliefs with the coats of arms of the cities of Hamburg, […]
View of the Volksgarten (People’s Garden) from the roof of the Natural History Museum, with the Burgtheater in the background.
The Hufschmidhouse (blacksmith’s house) on the corner of Neuer Markt – Kupferschmiedgasse – Seilergasse in the 1st district, built in 1784, was rebuilt in 1967 by the Austrian Arch. Georg Lippert in 1967, the smooth façades with plain windows so typical of the Josephinian style have fortunately been preserved. This style, also known as the […]
The almost 62,000m2 Wertheimsteingarden in Oberdöbling in the 19th district was created as early as 1835 by the Austrian textile manufacturer, art collector and patron Rudolf von Arthaber as a private garden with a country house, the Villa Wertheimstein. After his death, Leopold von Wertheimstein acquired the park and villa in 1867, and 50 years […]
Due to the great success of the specially tanned and dyed gloves, the production of the former imperial and royal glove factory J.E. Zacharias moved in 1886 to the three-storey factory building planned by Gustav Matthies from Mecklenburg in today’s 19th district near the Danube. Due to the high demand for water, the location of […]
One of the highlights of a tour of the Prater Cottage in the 2nd district is the impressive clubhouse for the former “Cycling Club of State and Court Officials” in the Prater, designed by Austrian designer and Secession architect Joseph Maria Olbrich. The central wooden main front, designed as a wide portal niche, is a […]
The building known from 1999-2016 as the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, designed by Arch. Heinz Tesar was reopened as the Albertina Klosterneuburg in April ’24 after being closed for almost 8 years. The underlying Essl Collection of Austrian and international contemporary art was transferred to the Albertina on permanent loan in 2017 and […]
The 113m long and up to 28m high Palm House in Schönbrunn Palace Park was first built in 1880-1882 according to plans by Arch. Xaver Segenschmid by the “k. und k. Hofschlosser und Eisenconstructeur” Ignaz Gridl and is one of the largest plant houses of its kind in the world. State-of-the-art technology was built into […]
The 2001 monument to Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) in the Votive Park next to the Votive Church made of Carrara marble by Italian sculptor Gianni Aricò shows a group of figures with three female musicians, probably an allusion to Vivaldi’s teaching activities at the “Ospedale della Pietà” in Venice, formerly an orphanage for girls, where he […]
Evening view of the Danube Canal with a reflection of the inner city skyline at the „IBM Center“ on Obere Donaustraße in Leopoldstadt. The striking office building from 1969 was built according to plans by Viennese Arch. Georg Lippert on the site of the former Diana baths and renovated in 1999-2001.
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About me
I am a certified tourist guide and tour manager, travel blogger and globetrotter. As a local I love to explore the city that inspires me with my guests.
As a trainer, lecturer and former cabaret artist with stage experience and I stand for eloquence and punchlines.
Follow me on a tour to the most important sights with exciting stories in a good and fun mood!
