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Vienna in September: Best of Heurigen (Traditional Viennese wine tavern) Vienna has become an international hot spot for wine lovers. The following are our most favorite places to spend a traditional Viennese evening at the Heurigen. For reservations, private wine tasting sessions, wine orders and more detailed information please contact Duschel Apartments! Heurigen means “this year’s wine” as well as the tavern where you can drink it. The license for winegrowers to serve their own young wine goes right back to empress Maria Theresia in 1784 and used to be limited to a few weeks a year. That’s why a […]

Vienna in December is a fairytale dream come true: Sugar and spice, snowflakes and sleigh bells, sparkle and candles, hot chestnuts and mulled wine at literally each corner of town. At Duschel Apartments Xmas spirit is waiting right behind your doorstep: Vienna’s city center turns into a huge Christmas village with many well attended Xmas markets in between. Everybody goes there to meet friends, drink hot mulled wine or Punch and taste various regional specialties: Mainly traditional snacks and finger food like roasted chestnuts, hash browns, pancakes, sausages and of course gingerbread, sweets, sweets and more sweets. You can buy […]

Vienna in October: Indian summer, art experience and Arabian Nights at Duschel Apartments Vienna in autumn can be a wonderful, sunny, warm and golden experience – or a wet, grayish, chilly and rather unpleasant place to be. Duschel Apartments can’t guarantee perfect weather conditions for your stay, but we gladly deliver some decent ideas for any kind of weather. Indian summer and Halloween Golden sunbeams spot red-golden leaves, foliage softly rustles under your feet and shiny chestnuts tempt you off the track: Vienna’s Indian summer is definitely worth a walk! Although locals gave it the rather unflattering name „Altweibersommer“, which […]

Each May and June, the Wiener Festwochen offer stage highlights for theater greenhorns as well as dyed-in-the-wool enthusiasts. This year, the Wiener Festwochen are headed by Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser and Performing Arts Director Stefan Schmidtke. Enjoy a multi-faceted and varied programme consisting of 39 productions from 20 countries. Curtain up for 5 Austrian premieres, 4 new stagings and 2 European debut performances! 2015: May, 14 – June, 21, Vienna Entrance free at Donauinselfest Beach Festival Each year in summertime, the Donauinsel – Vienna’s city beach on an 21 km long island in river Danube – is transformed into Europe’s […]

Do you already know Conchita Wurst? The bearded singing lady (a drag queen performed by Thomas Neuwirth) brought the media event to Austria by winning last year’s Eurovision Song Contest with “Rise like a Phoenix”. She has also become an icon of Life Ball: For the poster Conchita Wurst was portrayed by Ellen von Unwerth as Klimt’s famous painting “Goldene Adele”. Life Ball May 16, 2015 – Big event with serious background The Life Ball annually takes place inside and in front of Vienna City Hall. This spectacular celebration of life and diversity is one of the biggest AIDS charity […]

Artfully decorated eggs, culinary treats and a program of music await you at Vienna’s Easter markets in March and April: The Old Viennese Easter market on Freyung builds the biggest tower of eggs in Europe. The Easter market in front of Schönbrunn Palace is considered to be one of the most romantic Easter markets. Children have fun in the Easter Bunny workshop, while you enjoy “Jazz at the Easter Market”. The handicraft market on Am Hof square is also fully given over to Easter customs with skillfully decorated eggs and flower arrangements and also offers pretty handicrafts. An entertaining Easter […]

No city but Vienna has got such huge worldwide reputation for the art of mixing business with pleasure. As soon as days are getting longer many Viennese bars and restaurants take their tables out on the sidewalks (some of them with umbrella heaters) where early sun worshippers enjoy their gourmet breakfast and lunch. While first snowdrops, tulips and daffodils blossom all over town, the Viennese congress season starts. Did you know, that Vienna annually offers up to 200 international top level conferences, congresses and events covering various topics in medicine, sciences, technics and technology? What a chance to bring your […]

Could you imagine something more romantic on Valentine’s Day than cuddling tight inside a horse-drawn Fiaker carriage, riding the crooked little streets of inner Vienna, over the magnificent Ringstrasse, on towards Prater for an unforgettable ride in the Giant Ferris Wheel? Vienna has a lot to offer for lovers in February – and also to those who would love to be: Rendezvous on Ice To sporty romantics the enchantingly illuminated scenery of City Hall and Burgtheater provides 7.000 m² of ice to skate on. Winding lanes under majestic trees open fairytale conditions for ice princesses and -princes. Vienna Ice Dream, […]

Your’re not into dancing? Anyway, don’t miss the unique experience of strolling “backstage” through world famous rooms such as Golden Hall of New Years Concert, Vienna State Opera, Imperial Palace of Sissi and the splendidly decorated Vienna City Hall, well-known as venue of Life Ball. Book your ball tickets now and check in for a cozy splendid ball weekend at www.duschelapartments.com Let the waltz begin Since the Congress of Vienna in 1814 Vienna has got its world wide reputation as capital of waltz and ball. Nowhere else carnival season is celebrated as elegant and glamorous. The typical ball night starts […]